Having a Child Before Becoming an Adult: Exploring the Economic Impact in a Multi-Country Analysis

When girls and women endure restricted access to resources such as land, energy, and water and sanitation, there are far-reaching implications. These can affect their health, education, housing, and livelihoods, as well as the safety and sustainability of the environments in which they live. This brief explores seven solutions highlighting gender-responsive approaches that create an enabling environment for effective and secure access to resources.

Infographic on how to accelerate access to resources such as land, clean energy, water, and sanitation for girls and women.

Infographic on why access to safe abortion is an urgent public need.

Women Deliver contributed to the culminating report from a Wilton Park event co-hosted by WHO, UNFPA, and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, which highlights key actions the global community must take to make humanitarian action work for adolescent girls. Our biggest takeaway: adolescent girls and the local organizations that support them are resilient change-makers in humanitarian settings, and must be financed and engaged to unlock their full power and potential.

A practical toolkit for young people to advocate for improved adolescent health and well-being.

Women’s economic empowerment is a pre-requisite for inclusive and equitable economic growth. Every day, women demonstrate they can build informal and formal businesses out of very little capital, create networks to maximize limited resources, and shoulder disproportionate care-taking responsibilities. Women succeed in spite of laws, policies, social norms, and institutions that hold them back. This policy brief examines opportunities to create an enabling environment for women to thrive economically.

Infographic on how to boost women’s economic empowerment.

Under the sustainable development agenda, development actors from across the spectrum have an opportunity to abandon traditionally siloed approaches and work together to positively impact girls’ and women’s lives through financial investment and strengthened multi-sector partnerships that deliver on an integrated agenda. This policy brief identifies interventions that can propel sustainable progress.

Infographic on how to build sustainable financing and partnerships for girls and women.

A booklet detailing the investment case for girls and women.