The girl effect

The girl effect

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<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_what-is-the-girl-effect"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">What is the girl effect?</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_mission-why-girls"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Mission: Why Girls?</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_useful-documents"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Useful documents</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_official-website"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Official website</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_reference"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Reference</span></a>s</li>
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<h2 id="w_what-is-the-girl-effect">What is the girl effect?</h2>
The girl effect is a movement. It’s about leveraging the unique potential of adolescent girls to end poverty for themselves, their families, their communities, their countries and the world. It’s about making girls visible and changing their social and economic dynamics by providing them with specific, powerful and relevant resources.

Created by the Nike Foundation in collaboration with the NoVo Foundation, United Nations Foundation and Coalition for Adolescent Girls, the girl effect is fuelled by hundreds of thousands of girl champions who recognise the untapped potential of adolescent girls living in poverty.

The girl effect launched in 2008 accompanied by a film that caught the imagination of people the world over, ‘The Clock is Ticking’ see the link below to watch it.

<h2 id="w_mission-why-girls">Mission: Why Girls?</h2>
When we include girls in education, health and economic investment we have a better chance of preventing issues such as child marriage, teen pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and breaking the inter-generational cycle of poverty. But girls can’t do it alone; they need the world to listen to them and invest in their potential.
<h2 id="w_useful-documents">Useful documents</h2>
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<li><a href="http://genderdev.oecd.org/images//b/bf/Girl_Effect_Fact_Sheet.pdf">Fact sheet – key stats</a></li>
<li><a href="http://genderdev.oecd.org/images//6/69/Girl_Effect_Media_Kit.pdf">Media Kit</a></li>
<li><a href="http://genderdev.oecd.org/images//7/79/Girl_Effect_Your_Move.pdf">What can you do?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://genderdev.oecd.org/images//a/aa/Girls_Count_Series_Actions.pdf">The coalition for adolescent girls: 10 actions</a></li>
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<h2 id="w_official-website">Official website</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.girleffect.org/question">The Girl Effect</a></li>
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<h2 id="w_reference">References</h2>
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