Girls Count: A Global Investment and Action Agenda

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CGD’s Girls Count initiative examined ways to improve the welfare of girls and young women in developing countries. Its influential 2008 report was re-released in 2009 as part of a series in partnership with the Nike Foundation and the United Nations Foundation.