‘Resourcing Adolescent Girls’ Rights: Building a Toolkit for Just Futures’ as part of the 4th UN Financing for Development Conference (FFD4)

GAGE in collaboration with Plan International, Malala Fund, UNGEI, ICRW, AGIP, IPPF and the Government of Chile organised a side event ‘Resourcing Adolescent Girls’ Rights: Building a Toolkit for Just Futures’ as part of the 4th UN Financing for Development Conference (FFD4). This side event brought together government officials, civil society, financial experts and youth leaders to explore a range of modalities to fund girls’ rights. The event commenced with a presentation of the AGIP-GAGE research series “Investing in Adolescent Girls”, examining the funding landscape, gaps and trends on ODA flows towards adolescent girls’ well-being and development. In an expert roundtable, panellists also discussed the current challenges of the funding landscape for girls’ rights, spotlighting good practices such as the reallocation of funds from debt servicing towards girls’ education, taxation policies that promote gender equality, the evolving role of ODA in financing gender equality, outcome-based financing mechanisms to drive better results and value for women and girls, and the potential of social impact investments and philanthropy to drive sustainable change.