Action for Adolescents Girls: The Assets Framework
As part of United Nations Population Fund’s strategic plan and dedication to reaching the most vulnerable populations, they are working on updating the Adolescent and Youth Strategy with a specific programme called Action for Adolescent Girls: “Every adolescent and youth, in particular adolescent girls, is empowered to have access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, in all contexts.” The global programme was launched in 2014 and aligned with the aims of the ICPD (a refresher to the ICPD can be found in this blog post ) and goals of UNFPA, specifically ending child marriage and reducing adolescent pregnancies. The Arab region has over 100 million people between the ages of 15-29, roughly 30% of the region’s population, which is the largest young population in the world. This poses a great opportunity for the region to capitalize upon its demographic dividend. The demographic dividend is the economic growth potential that can result from shifts in a population’s
