A New Generation: 25 years of efforts for gender equality in education

The report sets out an evidence-based agenda for advancing adolescent girls’ rights and opportunities in a rapidly changing global context. It synthesises demographic, educational, economic, and social data to frame adolescent girls as a distinct policy constituency and argues for more integrated, cross-sector responses to the structural barriers they face. By consolidating research and country-level examples, the report positions investment in adolescent girls as both a rights imperative and a development strategy, encouraging governments and partners to adopt targeted, data-driven approaches.

In doing so, the report advocates for strengthened policy coherence across education, health, protection, and economic systems, and for the use of age- and gender-disaggregated data to guide programming. It promotes a life-course perspective, highlights promising models and partnerships, and calls for sustained political and financial commitments to ensure that adolescent girls are not left behind in national and global development agendas.