The Coalition for Adolescent Girls (the Coalition), Washington DC, USA
From the Global Women's Network
| The Coalition for Adolescent Girls (the Coalition), Washington DC, USA | |
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| Logo: |  |
| Street address: | 1800 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 400 |
| City: | Washington |
| State or Province: | DC |
| Country: | United States |
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| Location coordinates: | 38° 54' 32" N, 77° 2' 32" WLatitude: 38.90879 Longitude: -77.042271 |
| Contact number: | (202) 887-9040 |
| Website: | http://www.coalitionforadolescentgirls.org/ |
| Target: | Girls |
| Organization type: | Women's network (network/coalition of people or organizations) |
| Sectors: | Child Marriage, Education, Empowerment, Female Genital Mutilation, Gender Discrimination, Health, Labor Rights, Teen Pregnancy/Mothers |
Summary
The Coalition for Adolescent Girls (the Coalition) brings together more than 30 international organizations that design, implement and evaluate programs that benefit girls throughout the developing world who are trapped in cycles of poverty.
About
The Coalition for Adolescent Girls (the Coalition) brings together more than 30 international organizations that design, implement and evaluate programs that benefit girls throughout the developing world who are trapped in cycles of poverty. When adolescent girls are educated, healthy and financially literate, they can create lasting change within communities and end generations of poverty.
The Coalition provides a unique platform for organizations to share information, tools, and resources; to find points of intersection and opportunities for collaboration; build technical capacity; and to strategize on best practices.
The Coalition members seek to influence standards of practice across diverse sectors of programming in development and humanitarian contexts in order to ensure that the needs of adolescent girls are met.
The coalition works to:
- Give adolescent girls an officially recognized identification.
- Collect data on adolescent girls and disaggregate it by age and gender to assess whether programs are reaching adolescent girls.
- Increase funding for adolescent girls - and track what it achieves.
- Expand opportunities for girls to attend secondary school.
- Re-focus HIV/AIDS prevention strategies to focus on adolescent girls.
- Re-orient health delivery systems to work for adolescent girls.
- Economically empower adolescent girls by building and protecting their assets.
- Make the law work for adolescent girls.
- Equip adolescent girls to advocate for themselves and their communities.
- Mobilize communities, families, men and boys to support adolescent girls.
Activities
The Coalition for Adolescent Girls (the Coalition) membership is comprised of organizations that implement programs to benefit adolescent girls in developing countries.
Membership base: Members of the Coalition meet quarterly to share information, experiences, tools and resources, to strengthen the network of adolescent girl experts and advocates, and to identify shared priorities.
Working Groups: In addition to quarterly meetings, members also come together around common goals and interests in self-designed working groups to move the field of adolescent girl work forward. These working groups vary in scope and purpose, and have included the Technical Tools and Resources Working Group and the Advocacy, Messaging and Education Working Group.
Advisory Council: An Advisory Council helps guide the Coalition’s work, and provides crucial strategic guidance to the Coalition. The Advisory Council has seven organizational representatives, four of which are held by elected representatives from the Coalition member organizations and three are held by staff of the Coalition's secretariat.
Secretariat: The Secretariat convenes members, administers and coordinates the Coalition's operations, events and activities, and supports working group efforts. The secretariat is staffed by representatives from the Nike Foundation and United Nations Foundation, along with the Coalition Coordinator.
Coordinator: The coordinator serves as the primary focal point to the Coalition, convening members and other partners and managing the activities of the Coalition.
