In collaboration with implementing partners, the WRC tested promising approaches in adolescent girls’ programming by applying the learning from development contexts in pilot programs in three displacement settings. The initiative explored alternative means of empowerment to protect adolescent girls by establishing safe spaces as portals where displaced girls can build confidence and agency while gaining critical skills for their future livelihoods.
This report synthesizes the findings from: • Desk research and key informant interviews • In-country assessments from refugee camps in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda • Learning to date from pilot programs in three refu- gee camps in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda
This document is intended to help humanitarian practitioners more effectively identify and address the unique needs of adolescent girls in displacement and crisis settings. It also provides donors and policy makers, who have the ability to drive change in humanitarian programming, with guidance on how to make sustainable impact for adolescent girls.
This report will first provide an introduction to why the needs and capacities of adolescent girls in humanitarian settings should be taken into account; then it presents the methodology for the research undertaken by the WRC’s Displaced Adolescent Girls Initiative. The report will continue with findings from WRC's initiative: approaches and promising practices in adolescent girls’ programming undertaken across various contexts as well as WRC's initial learning from their pilot programmes in three refugee settings. Lastly, drawing from the organisation's research to date, the report will present a range of strategies and options for humanitarian actors to consider when planning and designing programs for adolescent girls, and more generally when working with adolescent girls in crisis settings.