Girls Discovered: Global Maps of Adolescent Girls

As an online source of maps and data on the status of adolescent girls worldwide, Girls Discovered is designed to help donors, policymakers, and implementing agencies focus their investments in girls. The information on the site is from organisations operating in the public interest and is meant for researchers, practitioners, advocates, and policy-makers who seek change for the world's 600 million adolescent girls.

This resource originated with the publication of Girls Count: A Global Investment and Action Agenda in 2008. Authored by Ruth Levine from the Center for Global Development, Cynthia Lloyd of the Population Council, Margaret Greene of the International Center for Research on Women, and Caren Grown of American University, Girls Count published adolescent girl-specific data and insights intended to drive meaningful action. This website, as an outgrowth of their research, uses quantitative analysis of girl-specific data for advocacy.

As stated on the website: For those who work as a "researcher, a policymaker, a business or an NGO [non-governmental organisation]; [are] interested in the health of adolescent girls or their education; [are] looking for a visually compelling map of data on girls or a spreadsheet of data, Girls Discovered" is designed to help: 

• Find maps and data on a theme of interest by clicking on one of the seven categories below. Where the data exists, users can find data according to gender and age.
  
• View and print the data on global maps, or zoom-in to see data on girls in India in more detail. Click on a country to obtain information about girls in a specific location.
  
• Analyse data by comparing indicators, ages, or gender on two maps displayed side-by-side. Identify hotspots of vulnerability for girls by overlaying two different datasets on one global map.
• Download spreadsheets of data on indicators or on countries for use in one's own statistical analysis or research.