Towards Inclusive Systems: Understanding Adolescent Girls’ Engagement, Challenges, and Demands for System-led Accountability

Adolescent girls should be at the center of any policies and decisions that affect their lives, it is critical that they are equipped with skills and capacities to raise their voices in holding governments accountable and have access to platforms to voice their opinions and a supportive environment that facilitates their participation in these platforms.

This project brief aims to present the accountability framework co-developed with adolescent girls from seven different countries- India, Nepal, Cambodia, Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon and Mexico. It highlights the mechanisms leveraged by AGs in holding system accountable to its commitments, the enablers and barriers they face in engaging with the system and their demands from the system stakeholders. It presents a model accountability platform developed by the AGs at local level, which can be adapted to different country settings and utilized to promote meaningful engagement of the AGs with the system stakeholders and demand accountability from them.  Additionally, the brief also presents recommendations to strengthen systems accountability to the needs of adolescent girls. It aims to be a valuable resource to understand the experiences, perspectives and demands of AGs, as well as, for the system stakeholders to meaningfully include adolescent girls’ voices in decision-making platforms and processes.