In this area you can find peer reviewed articles, books, and impact evaluations that explore what works to enhance adolescent capabilities and empowerment. You can also read more about the GAGE conceptual framework, study design and methodology.
Journal articles
Conceptual framework
GAGE’s conceptual framework focuses on adolescent capabilities, contexts and the change pathways that can support their development trajectories and well-being. The framework takes a holistic and intersectional approach to understanding what works to support adolescents’ development and empowerment, with particular attention to the ways in which gender norms and other forms of social inequality shape their day-to-day experiences. It focuses on adolescents’ individual and collective capabilities and well-being in terms of six broad domains: education and learning, bodily integrity (including freedom from sexual and gender-based violence, and child marriage), physical and reproductive health and nutrition, psychosocial well-being, voice and agency, and economic empowerment. The conceptual framework includes the change pathways that can support adolescents’ capabilities, and the mediating effects of adolescents’ socio-ecological contexts on their trajectories.
You can find the second edition of our conceptual framework here.
Study design
GAGE is a decade-long, mixed-methods cohort study with qualitative, quantitative, and participatory research components. The GAGE sample of more than 20,000 adolescents from diverse low- and middle-income countries includes young people with disabilities, married girls, and young people from refugee and host communities in contexts affected by forced displacement. GAGE’s longitudinal and mixed-methods design helps us to understand adolescents’ heterogenous experiences across the second decade of life, including which change strategies work for which adolescents, at which ages and in which contexts.
Books on adolescents in the Global South:
Resources on research design and methodology
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