Publications

Enhancing Child Protection Through Early Childhood Care and…

This manual provides a training guide for use with staff who work directly with children and parents in early childhood development projects.
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The State of the World’s Girls 2011: So, What About Boys?…

Far from being an issue just for women and girls, gender is also about boys and men, and this needs to be better understood if we are going to have a positive impact on society.
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The State of the World’s Girls 2010: Digital and Urban…

With a focus on the boom in city populations and the explosion of IT and communication technology, we look at the prospects and perils facing girls.
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The State of the World’s Girls 2009: Girls in the Global…

This report warns that failing to send girls to school costs the world's poorest countries billions of pounds each year. 
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Handbook on Community-Led Total Sanitation

This handbook on Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), produced in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in the UK, is aimed at enabling communities to analyse their…
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The State of the World’s Girls 2007: Because I am a Girl…

Girls face the double discrimination of their gender and their age, and in many societies remain at the bottom of the social and economic ladder. 
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