Exploring the School to Work Transition for Adolescent Girls

This paper summarises the findings of a new report from the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre, University of Cambridge, which identifies key policy interventions that can enable adolescent girls to obtain secure and productive livelihoods. The report shows policy interventions are needed that are effective in the short-term, along with long-term structural change to systems and social norms in order to give marginalised adolescent girls fair opportunities. Such change requires strong political leadership and sustained commitment to dismantling discriminatory legislation that deny girls access to secure and productive livelihoods, alongside promoting the importance of gender sensitive and transformative approaches.