Children and adolescents

This resource is a research summary on youth and capability development, building on evidence from five cities across Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Nigeria and Somalia. The research uncovered prevalent systemic barriers hindering young people in…

This 17 minute podcast focuses on young people’s voice, agency and civic engagement. In this episode, international children’s rights consultant and advocate Gerison Lansdown speaks to Carlos, a children’s rights activist and researcher, and member…

  This 23 minute podcast focuses on young people’s voice, agency and civic engagement. Gender and adolescence global evidence (GAGE) researcher, Sally Youssef, speaks to Dr Bassam Abu Hamad (Al Quds University, Gaza) and Aous, a young Palestinian…

This animation offers an overview of Young Lives, a longitudinal study of child poverty across four countries, over 15 years, with 12,000 children. 

This resource highlights how children in poverty across low- and middle-income countries are the most affected by climate change, impacting their health, education, nutrition, and living conditions. The Young Lives evidence shows that these impacts…

This infographic has been developed to support those working on designing and delivering social protection activities by highlighting the key issues relating to gender equality and social inclusion and why it’s important for social protection policy…

This policy brief looks at extensive evidence around the direct and indirect impacts of violence in and around schools and the significant impacts on educational outcomes. It highlights that gender inequality is a root cause of violence in schools…

In this podcast, Dr Eleanor Nwadinobi talks to Lauren Watters of Able Child Africa about how organisations can make their programmes safe for people with disabilities. Learn about the simple and low cost steps you can take to integrate disability…

 In times of crisis and conflict, social protection systems are under pressure but remain crucial for supporting vulnerable groups. This podcast episode explores how gender-responsive social protection helps women, children, and marginalised…

This poster, presented at the 8th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Japan, shares the Burnet Institute’s reflections on involving people with disabilities in research in Myanmar. It captures their approach, challenges and lessons…

This learning report presents six practical actions to help make identification and enrolment processes in education more inclusive of children with disabilities. Based on inclusive education projects in Nepal, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Kenya, and…

This infographic summarises research evidence from Young Lives publication - delivering on every child’s right to basic skills. Based on evidence from Vietnam, Ethiopia, Peru and India, it highlights the gaps in reading and digital skills among…

This infographic summarises evidence from a Young Lives Study of children’s experiences of violence in Vietnam, Ethiopia, Peru and India. It looks at what children say about violence, how it impacts them, and the main themes that emerged from a…

This infographic summarises findings on child marriage and early parenthood in India, based on Young Lives research. It highlights the gendered differences of adolescents’ experiences and explores both risk and protective factors influencing early…

This policy note summarises key findings from the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) report on the wellbeing of adolescents with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It draws on a thematic evidence review, combined…

In this video, Tatiana Salisbury and Kelly Rose-Clarke from King’s College London discuss the importance of investing in child and adolescent mental health. They highlight key messages for donors and guide how to strengthen support for mental health…

This think piece explores the role of women’s rights organisations (WROs) in creating enabling environments for girls’ education and challenging harmful gender norms. It examines the constraints WROs faced and how they were overcome, their impact on…

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 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 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 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…