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Gender Gap Closing but Challenges Persist While the global Gender Gap in school enrolment is narrowing, adolescent girls continue to face serious obstacles in their progress along the education continuum. According to recent data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), drop-out rates remain...

This paper presents specific and useful suggestions for successfully using phone interviewing as a means of data collection in research studies. The lessons and insights are intended for anyone conducting research with phone interviews, particularly the novice researcher. The authors speak directly...

This booklet offers parents, caregivers, and other adults suggestions on how to help children cope with the effects of disaster, as well as how to be prepared before a disaster strikes. Children can feel very frightened during a disaster and afterwards some children will show temporary changes of...

This month's issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health includes three articles that focus on the detection and outcome of depression in adolescence. This editorial attempts to identify some key themes arising from these studies and to contextualize the findings from a global perspective. Naicker and...

Thank you for the opportunity to talk about the big picture issues which impact all of us in the field of humanitarian action. I’d like to talk about three specific and very different challenges to humanitarian work which pose difficult questions for all of us working in the humanitarian field...

This article explores child rights, water scarcity and sanitation. It applies the human security paradigm as a legal and humanitarian foundation for extending child rights to water and sanitation. Abstract The article explores the intersection between child rights, water scarcity, sanitation, and...

Program evaluations are “individual systematic studies conducted periodically or on an ad hoc basis to assess how well a program is working1.” What was your reaction to this definition? Has the prospect of undertaking a “research study” ever deterred you for conducting a program evaluation? Good...