Amanda Braga

Barriers to STEM education for rural girls

Nasrin Siddiqa and Amanda Braga

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Girls attend a class at Khushal School, in the home region of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai in Swat Valley, Pakistan March 30, 2018. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood - RC137E93FC70

Echidna Global Scholars: Making an impact on girls’ education around the world

Thursday, March 7, 2019

Informal education session in Cameroon

Non-formal girls’ life skills programming

Christina Kwauk, Amanda Braga, Helyn Kim, Kendra Dupuy, Sosina Bezu, and Are Knudsen

Friday, June 8, 2018

Twin girls walk to their school in Kodinji village in the southern Indian city of Kerala

Life skills in non-formal contexts for adolescent girls in developing countries

Kendra Dupuy, Sosina Bezu, Are Knudsen, Sandra Halvorsen, Christina Kwauk, Amanda Braga, and Helyn Kim

Monday, April 23, 2018

Life skills education is more than teaching skills

Christina Kwauk and Amanda Braga

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Girls play a clapping game during a weekly education session about breast ironing and rape by survivor of breast ironing Julie Ndjessa at Ndjessa's family home in Douala, Cameroon, November 3, 2013. New government research shows that 'breast ironing,' where the breasts of young girls are flattened using a hot stone, has seen a 50 percent decline since it was first accidentally uncovered during a 2005 survey by the German Technical Cooperation Agency (GTZ) on rape and incest in Cameroon. Picture taken November 3, 2013. REUTERS/Joe Penney (CAMEROON - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH) - GM1EA1703F201

Translating competencies to empowered action

Christina Kwauk and Amanda Braga

November 6, 2017

A woman is silhouetted next to a solar panel display by solar module supplier Upsolar at the fourth International Photovoltaic Power Generation (PV) Expo in Tokyo March 2, 2011. More than 600 companies in the solar energy business from 18 countries are taking part in the March 2-4 expo, which showcases firms and products related to photovoltaic power generation, according to the organiser. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN - Tags: BUSINESS SCI TECH ENVIRONMENT) - GM1E7321H1O01

Green skills for girls in a green economy

Christina Kwauk and Amanda Braga

Monday, October 23, 2017

French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius (C), President-designate of COP21, and Christiana Figueres (L), Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, react during the final plenary session at the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, December 12, 2015. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe - LR1EBCC1MTTOP

Building a pipeline of women in climate leadership: Short-term solution for long-term gains in climate action

Christina Kwauk and Amanda Braga

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

A girl carries a sleeping baby at a camp for displaced people fleeing violence from Gulak, a border town in the north of Adamawa state which was attacked in September 2014, January 31, 2015. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde (NIGERIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) - GM1EB210WIL01

Promote girls’ reproductive rights in order to ensure equitable climate action

Christina Kwauk and Amanda Braga

Thursday, October 5, 2017

Afghan girls collect water from a public water pump in Kabul February 16, 2011. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT) - GM1E72G1BCS01

3 ways to link girls’ education actors to climate action

Christina Kwauk and Amanda Braga

Wednesday, September 27, 2017