WGHI is a global research center whose mission is to “improve the reproductive health of vulnerable women around the globe by

• conducting rigorous collaborative research to strengthen the reproductive health program evidence base;

• developing and evaluating public health interventions;

• studying gender and economic inequity;

• building international capacity; and

• providing training and mentoring opportunities.”

WGHI is currently conducting 20 research projects in 10 countries around the world.

Beginning in 2006, WGHI is collaborating with Freedom from Hunger on the Advancing Adolescent Girls’ Access to Resources and Influence initiative in India.  Specifically, WGHI is contributing to the following:

• Researching priority themes for girls in order to inform the expansion or adaptation of an education curriculum to address priority themes.

• Developing a baseline for monitoring and evaluating the curriculum’s outcomes for girls and progress towards sustainability and scale.

• Monitoring and evaluating the effects of the curriculum (in terms of girls’ knowledge, skills, attitudes, behavior and practices), the success of the curriculum (in terms of positive outcomes in the lives of girls) and sustainability and scale of the initiative.