Children and adolescents

This resource summarises the pivotal role played by refugee women-led organisations (WLOs) in preventing and responding to gender-based violence (GBV). It also examines the systemic barriers WLOs face, in relation to registration, legal recognition…

This resource summarises the evidence on societal-level impact of online violence against women and girls (VAWG). It looks at four main areas: the economic costs of online VAWGhow social norms around violence against women are changing as a…

This resource is guidance developed for country offices in the UK Government’s former Department for International Development (DFID) to support them with efforts to prevent and address violence against women (VAW) and violence, abuse and…

This resource is a self-assessment tool that provides a gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) framework to help practitioners identify areas for improvement in their projects and adapt them to become more GESI transformative. Transformative…

This resource is a think piece from the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Girls’ Education Challenge. It looks at why the most marginalised must be prioritised in global efforts to ensure foundational learning for all…

This resource is a strategy document which reaffirms the UK’s commitment to act as a global leader on disability inclusion and sets out the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s approach towards 2030. It builds on the UK’s…

This resource is part of a series of ‘poverty profiles’ by the Disability Inclusion Helpdesk (DI HD) focused on eight of the most marginalised group-based identities. It responds to the fact that global progress has not benefitted everyone…

This resource explains the need for disability-inclusive child safeguarding. It builds on consultations with children with disabilities and youth with disabilities, and experience from over 20 organisations. The resource includes information about…

This resource is a child-friendly animated video published alongside disability-inclusive child safeguarding guidelines and a toolkit. The aim of this resource is to inform children with disabilities about their right to be and feel safe…

This resource outlines the limited way in which adolescents are included in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It focuses on the data gap in relation to adolescent boys and girls in the SDGs, and how their needs and risks are…

This resource is the Murad Code which brings together existing minimum standards for the safe and ethical collection and use of information from survivors of systematic and conflict-related sexual violence (SCRSV). It outlines how survivors of…

This resource is an International Protocol which outlines best practice guidance on how to document and investigate, sexual violence in conflict settings as a war crime, crime against humanity, act of genocide or other serious violation of…

This resource outlines factors that influence how effective teaching is for marginalised adolescent girls. It is designed to help programmes and policy makers improve their approach to teacher professional development through providing guidance on…

This resource is a research toolkit intended to be used to help prevent child marriage and respond to the needs of married and divorced girls and boys. It focuses on promoting action and inclusion, and looks at the threats and opportunities girls…

This resource from the Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D) programme provides guidance on how to ensure socially excluded people are taken into consideration in crisis settings, including humanitarian and conflict-affected…

This resource is the UK Government’s international strategy on women and girls. It explains how the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) plans to advance rights, freedoms and potential of all women and girls in its…

This resource is the UK Government’s strategy on preventing sexual violence in conflict (PSVI). It has 4 objectives:  strengthening the global response to conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV)preventing sexual violence in conflicthelping…

This resource is the political declaration made by over 50 countries and the UN at the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict (PSVI) Conference held in London in 2022. It sets out the joint action they will take to end sexual violence in conflict,…

This resource is a policy paper which sets out national commitments made by over 40 countries at the International Ministerial Conference on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict 2022. These commitments outline the steps each country will take to…

This resource from the Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D) programme provides examples of what has worked to include people who experience discrimination and social inequalities based on gender, age, disability, religious beliefs…