What’s Inside

State of Girls

Girls Leadership Index –
A data‑driven index measuring opportunities for adolescent girls and young women to develop and demonstrate leadership across 19 South and Southeast Asian countries and 14 Pacific Island countries and territories.

Real Choices, Real Lives –
The culmination of 18 years of girl‑centred research following girls’ lived experiences from childhood to adulthood across 10 countries. While Pacific countries were not included, the insights into how girls’ choices narrow during adolescence are deeply relevant and compelling.

Children & Youth Participation

Young Minds Shaping Climate Action & Disaster Mitigation –
A child‑led study developed by young people aged 12–18 engaged in World Vision East Asia’s Young Minds CAMP, highlighting how children understand risks and propose solutions for climate and disaster resilience.

Gender Equality & Social Norms

Resources on gender analysis, social norm change, and family‑ and faith‑based approaches, including:

Transforming Women and Girls’ Nutrition

Male Engagement for Gender Equality – A GEDSI promising practice from World Vision Bangladesh, documenting how engaging men and boys supports women’s empowerment and community wellbeing.

Empowered Women, Empowered Children – Research demonstrating the direct links between women’s empowerment and children’s wellbeing across multiple contexts.

Pacific‑Focused Evidence & Practice

Regionally grounded resources, including:

Pacific Girls in a Changing Climate –
Feminist participatory action research with girls in six Pacific countries.

Make It 18 –
Community voices on child marriage reform in the Solomon Islands.

Promising Practices for Transforming Women and Girls’ Nutrition (Papua New Guinea).

Water, Women and Disability –
Inclusive WASH research from Vanuatu.

Channels of Hope for Gender in Timor‑Leste and the Pacific –
A meta‑evaluation of faith‑based social norm change programming.