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We've had an incredible third quarter of 2023 at AGIP! We've been hard at work advocating for meaningful engagement of adolescent girls and young women in various global spaces.

This newsletter includes how we celebrated the International Day of the Girl Child; our presence at UNGA and the Global Forum for Adolescents; our research launch for the 2021 update on Investing in Adolescent Girls; and finally, an introduction to a new member who has joined AGIP.

In solidarity,

The Adolescent Girls Investment Plan (AGIP)

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To celebrate this year’s International Day of the Girl, we launched ‘Girl Voices’ - a dedicated space on our website for, you guessed it, girls’ voices! Our first post is a blog on menstrual education written by Paola, one of our girl advisors. In the article, Paola shares her journey as a menstrual educator including how she has been able to address the misinformation that girls and adolescents have around menstruation. Paola believes that menstrual education is as an empowerment tool for girls and adolescents.

UNGA & Global Forum for Adolescents

UNGA & GEF Mid-Point

We co-hosted the SDG Summit side event 'Youth & Adolescent Girls driving the 2030 Agenda’, and a youth speaker from the AGIP Network (Thuba, Plan International US) brought the house down with a great intervention on resourcing girls. We connected with stakeholders at the GEF Midpoint Moment, and will continue to advocate for the meaningful inclusion of adolescent girls within GEF.

We also convened with representatives of four governments (Mexico, UK, Sierra Leone and Kenya) at a closed-door AGIP breakfast meeting with adolescent girls. We started vital discussions on how to be an ally to adolescent girls in global policy spaces - and look forward to continuing these in the months to come!

Global Forum for Adolescents

AGIP was directly represented at two events through speaking opportunities for two of our Adolescent Girl Advisors. On Wednesday, Rushna spoke at the ‘Meaningful adolescent and youth engagement: An unfulfilled promise and the road ahead’, an event AGIP also co-organised with five partners. On Thursday Nhi represented AGIP at the ‘Invest we must! The time is now: Making the case for investing in adolescent well-being’.  We are super proud of both of them for taking up space and championing inclusivity of adolescent girls and young women in global advocacy spaces!

+++ Research Launch +++

Investing in girls: Key changes in the bilateral donor funding landscape - 2021 update

During the UNGA weeks, we also launched the long-awaited update to our ‘Investing in Adolescent Girls: mapping global and national funding patterns from 2016-2020’. The new report ‘Investing in adolescent girls: Key changes in the bilateral donor funding landscape - 2021 update’ highlights the overall investments changed in 2021 as well as how they contributed to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. AGIP’s focus remains on empowering adolescent girls through strategic investments, and we're committed to tracking progress in this area using evidence that motivates decision makers to shift resources to adolescent girls and young feminist led organisations.

AGIP’s Newest Member

We're thrilled to announce that we've added a Peace Sisters as a new member to our coalition! Founded in 2016 as a U.S.-based non-profit organization, Peace Sisters helps underprivileged African girls to empower themselves and thereby transform their own lives through removing economic and structural barriers to education.

Welcome to the AGIP space Peace Sisters!

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