The Population Council’s Poverty, Gender, and Youth program seeks to understand and address the disparities in opportunity that arise during adolescence, the critical requirements for reaching a successful, productive adulthood, the causes and consequences of gender inequality, and the social dimensions of poverty in developing countries.
Submissions from 2017
Understanding the lives of adolescents and young adults (UDAYA) in Uttar Pradesh, India (2015–16), K.G. Santhya, Rajib Acharya, Neelanjana Pandey, Ashish Kumar Gupta, Shilpi Rampal, Santosh Kumar Singh, and A.J. Francis Zavier
Understanding the lives of adolescents and young adults (UDAYA): Uttar Pradesh, Population Council
Why don’t urban youth in Zambia use condoms? The influence of gender and marriage on non-use of male condoms among young adults, Jessie Pinchoff, Christopher B. Boyer, Namuunda Mutombo, Rachna Nag Chowdhuri, and Thoai Ngo
Youth and domestic violence [Arabic], Population Council
Submissions from 2016
Abriendo Oportunidades: Guía Curricular Plan de Vida 2016—Cuadernillo español, Population Council
Abriendo Oportunidades: Guía Curricular Plan de Vida 2016—Cuadernillo Q’eqchi, Population Council
Abriendo Oportunidades para alcanzar mi plan de vida: Programa de 5 meses—14 a 18 años, Cecilia Garcés and Paola Broll
Abriendo Oportunidades para alcanzar mi plan de vida: Programa de 5 meses—8 a 13 años, Cecilia Garcés
Abriendo Oportunidades: Sesión—Mi plan de vida, Population Council
Addressing adolescent girls' vulnerability to HIV/AIDS: Lessons from the Meri Life Meri Choice project, Sunil Mehra, Rajesh R. Singh, Vandana Nair, K.G. Santhya, and A.J. Francis Zavier
Addressing child marriage and adolescent pregnancy as barriers to gender parity and equality in education, Stephanie Psaki
Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program (AGEP): Mid-term findings—Brief, Population Council
Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program (AGEP): Savings account, Population Council
Adolescent Girls Empowerment Programme in Zambia: Qualitative evaluation report, Zoe Duby, Chipo Natasha Zulu, and Karen Austrian
Adolescent Girls Empowerment Programme: Research and evaluation mid-term technical report, Karen Austrian, Paul C. Hewett, Erica Soler-Hampejsek, Fiammetta Bozzani, Jere R. Behrman, and Jean Digitale
Adolescent Girls Empowerment Programme: Research and evaluation mid-term technical report—Executive Summary, Karen Austrian, Paul C. Hewett, Erica Soler-Hampejsek, Fiammetta Bozzani, Jere R. Behrman, and Jean Digitale
Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya: Qualitative report, Eunice N. Muthengi, Karen Austrian, Amanda Landrian, Benta Abuya, Joyce Mumah, and Caroline W. Kabiru
BALIKA: Empowering girls to delay child marriage in Bangladesh, Sajeda Amin
BALIKA study design, Sajeda Amin
Boîte à Outils: Renforcement des Compétences, Judith Bruce, Sarah Engebretsen, and Kimberly Glazer
Building Girls' Protective Assets: A Collection of Tools for Program Design, Population Council
Delaying child marriage through community-based skills-development programs for girls: Results from a randomized controlled study in rural Bangladesh, Sajeda Amin, Johana Ahmed, Jyotirmoy Saha, Md. Irfan Hossain, and Eashita Haque
Development: Slow down population growth, John Bongaarts
Développer les Compétences de Protection des Filles: Ensemble d’Outils pour la Conception d’un Programme, Population Council
Does good governance reduce foodgrain diversion in PDS?, Sohini Paul
Ecological context of infant mortality in high-focus states of India, Laishram Ladusingh, Ashish Kumar Gupta, and Awdhesh Yadav
Effects of the PRACHAR project's reproductive health training programme for adolescents: Findings from a longitudinal study, Neelanjana Pandey, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, Rajib Acharya, Santosh Kumar Singh, and Mahesh Srinivas
Engaging parents to promote girls' transition to secondary education: Evidence from a cluster randomised trial in rural Gujarat, India, K.G. Santhya, A.J. Francis Zavier, Pallavi Patel, and Neeta Shah
Female literacy, fertility decline and life expectancy in Kerala, India: An analysis from census of India 2011, A. Sathiya Susuman, Siaka Lougue, and Madhusudana Battala
Filling the gender data gap, Miriam Temin and Eva Roca
Girl Empower Intervention Baseline Survey, Kelly Hallman, Elizabeth A. Kelvin, Berk Ozler, Juliette Seban, Erica Kuhlik, Cooper Alton, Joseph Kamara, and Sarah Goodman
'Her future is marriage': Young people's attitudes towards gender roles and the gender gap in Egypt, Maia Sieverding and Rasha Hassan
Improved water and child health in Egypt: Impact of interrupted water supply and storage of household water on the prevalence of diarrhoea, Rania Roushdy and Maia Sieverding
Intimate partner violence perpetration among adolescent males in disadvantaged neighborhoods globally, Sarah M. Peitzmeier, Anna Kagesten, Rajib Acharya, Yan Cheng, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, Adesola Olumide, Robert Wm. Blum, Freya Sonenstein, and Michele R. Decker
Invertir cuando vale la pena: Revisión de las evidencias para trazar un rumbo de investigación y acción para adolescentes muy jóvenes, Katharine McCarthy, Martha Brady, and Kelly Hallman
Investing When It Counts: Reviewing the Evidence and Charting a Course of Research and Action for Very Young Adolescents, Katharine McCarthy, Martha Brady, and Kelly Hallman
Investir quand cela compte: Passer en revue les preuves et établir un plan de recherche et d’action pour les très jeunes adolescents, Katharine McCarthy, Martha Brady, and Kelly Hallman
Is working risky or protective for married adolescent girls in urban slums in Kenya? Understanding the association between working status, savings and intimate-partner violence, Eunice N. Muthengi, Tabither Gitau, and Karen Austrian
Methodology: Reaching the most vulnerable adolescent girls, Population Council
Performance of Kalon herpes simplex virus 2 assay using dried blood spots among young women in Uganda, Samuel L. Nsobya, Paul C. Hewett, Sam Kalibala, and Barbara Mensch
Reporting of adherence in the VOICE trial: Did disclosure of product nonuse increase at the termination visit?, Barbara Mensch, Elizabeth R. Brown, Karen Liu, Jeanne Marrazzo, Zvavahera M. Chirenje, Kailazarid Gomez, Jeanna Piper, Karen Patterson, and Ariane van der Straten
South–south mobility: Economic and health vulnerabilities of Bangladeshi and Nepalese migrants to India, Lopamudra Saraswati, Avina Sarna, Ubaidur Rob, Mahesh Puri, Roopal Jyoti Singh, Vartika Sharma, and Amitabh Kundu
The Adolescent Girls Initiative–Kenya (AGI-K): Study protocol, Karen Austrian, Eunice N. Muthengi, Joyce Mumah, Erica Soler-Hampejsek, Caroline W. Kabiru, Benta Abuya, and John A. Maluccio
Towards effective youth participation, Magued Osman and Hanan Girgis
Towards effective youth participation [Arabic], Magued Osman and Hanan Girgis
Understanding HIV-related vulnerabilities and stigma among Egyptian youth, Nahla G. Abdel-Tawab, Doaa Oraby, Sally Saher, and Sarah Ismail
Urban migration of adolescent girls: Quantitative results from developing countries, Mark R. Montgomery, Deborah Balk, Zhen Liu, Siddharth Agarwal, Eleri Jones, and Susana Adamo
Women’s perceptions and misperceptions of male circumcision: A mixed methods study in Zambia, Nicole Haberland, Christine A. Kelly, Drosin Mulenga, Barbara Mensch, and Paul C. Hewett
Youth in Pakistan: Priorities, realities and policy responses, Zeba Sathar, Iram Kamran, Maqsood Sadiq, and Sabahat Hussain
Submissions from 2015
Abriendo Oportunidades: Guía Curricular Integrada 2015, Cecilia Garcés and Paola Broll
Abriendo Oportunidades Program: Integrated Curriculum Guide (8 to 17 years old)—Two-year cycle, Cecilia Garcés and Paola Broll
Addressing gender-biased sex selection in Haryana, India: Promising approaches, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, Rajib Acharya, Sharmistha Basu, and A.J. Francis Zavier
Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program (AGEP): Program overview, Population Council
Adolescent girls, human rights and the expanding climate emergency, Holly G. Atkinson and Judith Bruce
Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya: Baseline report, Karen Austrian, Eunice N. Muthengi, Taylor Riley, Joyce Mumah, Caroline W. Kabiru, and Benta Abuya
Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya: Financial Education Curriculum, Kibera, Population Council
Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya: Financial Education Curriculum, Wajir, Population Council
Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya: Health and Life Skills Curriculum, Kibera, Population Council
Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya: Health and Life Skills Curriculum, Wajir, Population Council
Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya: Program overview, Population Council
Africa’s slow fertility transition, John Bongaarts
Barriers and facilitators to health behaviour change and economic activity among slum-dwelling adolescent girls and young women in Nairobi, Kenya: The role of social, health and economic assets, Karen Austrian and Althea D. Anderson
Baseline Survey Instruments: Adolescent Girls Initiative–Kenya, Population Council
Building Assets Toolkit: Developing Positive Benchmarks for Adolescent Girls—Asset Cards, Judith Bruce, Sarah Engebretsen, and Kimberly Glazer
Building Assets Toolkit: Developing Positive Benchmarks for Adolescent Girls—Instruction Guide, Judith Bruce, Sarah Engebretsen, and Kimberly Glazer
Building Assets Toolkit: Developing Positive Benchmarks for Adolescent Girls—Resource Manual, Judith Bruce, Sarah Engebretsen, and Kimberly Glazer
Contraceptive use and intentions among unmarried and married young women undergoing abortion in Bihar and Jharkhand, India, A.J. Francis Zavier and Shireen J. Jejeebhoy
Curriculum on adolescent-friendly health services and health voucher mechanisms: Facilitator's training manual, Population Council
Early marriage as a risk factor for mistimed pregnancy among married adolescents in Bangladesh, Sigma Ainul and Sajeda Amin
Education, numeracy, and literacy: Baseline findings, Population Council
Equity in Access to University Education in Egypt: The Actual Cost of University Education, Population Council
Estimating the current mean age of mothers at the birth of their first child from household surveys, John Bongaarts and Ann K. Blanc
Evidence of son preference and resulting demographic and health outcomes in Pakistan, Zeba Sathar, Gul Rashida, Sabahat Hussain, and Anushe Hassan
Fertility change: Quantum and tempo, John Bongaarts
Gender-biased sex selection in India: A review of the situation and interventions to counter the practice, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, Sharmistha Basu, Rajib Acharya, and A.J. Francis Zavier
Gender-biased sex selection in South Asia: The situation and promising approaches to restore balance, Population Council
Gender equality in university education in Egypt [Arabic], Nagwa Megahed
Global fertility and population trends, John Bongaarts
How many more missing women? Excess female mortality and prenatal sex selection, 1970–2050, John Bongaarts and Christophe Z. Guilmoto
iMatter: Teaching about Puberty, Gender, and Fairness, Nicole Haberland and Debbie Rogow
Is AGEP building assets for vulnerable girls in Zambia? Preliminary research findings, Population Council
Las adolescentes indígenas: Una prioridad de hoy para un mejor futuro nacional en el 2015, Population Council
Meeting demand for family planning within a generation: The post-2015 agenda, Madeleine Short Fabic, Yoonjoung Choi, John Bongaarts, Jacqueline E. Darroch, John A. Ross, John Stover, Amy Ong Tsui, Jagdish Upadhyay, and Ellen H. Starbird
Modeling the fertility impact of the proximate determinants: Time for a tune-up, John Bongaarts
Panel Survey of Young People in Egypt (SYPE) 2014: Generating Evidence for Policies and Programs—Summary Report, Rania Roushdy and Maia Sieverding
Panel Survey of Young People in Egypt (SYPE) 2014: Generating evidence for policy, programs, and research, Rania Roushdy and Maia Sieverding
Panel Survey of Young People in Egypt (SYPE) 2014: Generating evidence for policy, programs, and research—Appendix, Rania Roushdy and Maia Sieverding
Panel Survey of Young People in Egypt (SYPE) 2014: Generating evidence for policy, programs, and research [Arabic], Rania Roushdy and Maia Sieverding
Parent-child communication and reproductive health behaviors: A survey of adolescent girls in rural Tanzania, Eunice N. Muthengi, Abebaw Ferede, and Annabel Erulkar
Participatory research results from training with the Mabinti Tushike Hatamu out-of-school girls program: Tanzania 2015, Kelly Hallman, Ilan Cerna-Turoff, and Neema Matee
Reproductive health needs of married girls in Assuit and Sohag Governorates [Arabic], Population Council
School quality and its association with agency and academic achievements in girls and boys in secondary schools: Evidence from Bihar, India, K.G. Santhya, A.J. Francis Zavier, and Shireen J. Jejeebhoy
Sexual and gender-based violence: Baseline findings, Population Council
Sexual and reproductive health and rights of adolescent girls: Evidence from low- and middle-income countries, K.G. Santhya and Shireen J. Jejeebhoy
Sexual behaviors and biomarkers: Baseline findings, Population Council
Sexuality education: Emerging trends in evidence and practice, Nicole Haberland and Deborah Rogow
Socio-economic equity in university education in Egypt [Arabic], Magued Osman
Statement and action agenda from the Girls in Emergencies Collaborative, Omar Robles, Judith Bruce, Holly G. Atkinson, Dale Buscher, Karen Scriven, Kristin Kim Bart, and Shelby French
The actual cost bourne by university students in Egypt: A qualitative study [Arabic], Population Council and Ilham Fateem
The adolescent experience in-depth: Using data to identify and reach the most vulnerable young people—Belize 2011, Population Council and UNICEF Belize