This paper describes the various programmes where Population Council researchers have collaborated with a wide range of women’s sports groups, international agencies, and ministries of youth to develop programs and policies that include girls in sports programmes.
The Council has worked directly with programs in Kenya and Mali, created an innovative model in Egypt, and examined and synthesized information from these and other programmes around the world. This paper recognises that from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, girls and women are participating in sports and play programmes in record numbers.
Even in the most unlikely settings, girls are stepping onto playing fields, joining teams, and participating in ways that were unprecedented a decade ago. The burgeoning interest in girls’ and women’s sports around the globe provides an opportune moment to create innovative programmes that empower girls and bring them safely and confidently into the public arena.
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