Publications

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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