The GAGE conceptual framework pays attention to the dynamic interactions that shape adolescent outcomes and gendered experiences. Adopting mixed-methods and longitudinal research design, GAGE is positioned to understand adolescent experiences and perspectives across six core capability domains: education and learning; bodily integrity and freedom from violence; health, nutrition and sexual and reproductive health and rights; psychosocial well-being; voice and agency; and economic empowerment. 

Through a wide network of global, regional and national-level partnerships, GAGE is evaluating the relevance, effectiveness and sustainability of programmes and interventions that seek to advance adolescent well-being across capability domains. By exploring intervention timeliness, relative efficacy of multi-sectoral, multi-component and bundled interventions, and the longevity and legacy of intervention outcomes for girls and boys into early adulthood and beyond, GAGE reserch investigates what works for adolescent well-being, and why. 

Additionally, GAGE collaborates extensively in global advocacy, knowledge-sharing and community of practice spaces advancing the rights and visibility of adolescent lived realities and adolescent voices. GAGE works to produce accessible evidence-informed products to advocate action in the interests of adolescent girls particularly, and promote gender equality at relevant international fora.

You can read more about our reports aligned to global advocacy here:

• Resourcing girl- and youth-led sexual and reproductive health rights activism: Potential and challenges
• Resourcing girls: The potential and challenges of girl- and youth-led organising
• Investing in adolescent girls: mapping global and national funding patterns from 2016-2020
• Investing in adolescent girls: Key changes in the bilateral donor funding landscape – 2022 update
• Adolescents, youth and the SDGs: what can we learn from the current data?

Publications on impact evaluations and implementation research:

• Protocol for a multi-country implementation research study to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of context-specific actions to train and support facilitators to deliver sexuality education to young people in out-of- school settings
• Do layered adolescent-centric interventions improve girls’ capabilities? Evidence from a mixed-methods cluster randomised controlled trial in Ethiopia
• Gender, Growth Mindset, and Covid-19: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh
• How to maximise the impacts of cash transfers for vulnerable adolescents in Jordan