https://www.scmp.com/rss/513869/feed Bhagyashri Dengle is regional director, Asia Pacific, at Plan International, and is deeply involved in developing transformational strategies to ensure that girls across the Asia-Pacific are able to learn, lead, decide and thrive through advocacy and gender transformative programmes. She has over 30 years of experience in the areas of Institution building, governance and gender transformative programming. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Throughout the Asia-Pacific region, there is an increasing consensus and appreciation about the value of fostering leadership among girls. As if there was ever any doubt, it is now obvious that no country can get ahead if it continues to leave half its population behind. Our annual Asia-Pacific Girls Report has been charting this shift for several years through our Girls’ Leadership Indexes (GLIs), measuring the rights and opportunities adolescent girls and young women have to lead in their... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3198712/young-womens-leadership-asia-improving-much-work-left-do?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3198712/young-womens-leadership-asia-improving-much-work-left-do?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:15:09 +0000 “I imagine a world where girls sit together around the table with decision-makers. We’d talk about our challenges and concerns, and we’d have a discussion focused on solutions, with empathy and patience,” says 23-year-old Tien from Vietnam. She is one of the 29,000 girls and young women aged between 15 and 24 from 29 countries surveyed by Plan International for its latest report, Equal Power Now: Girls, Young Women and Political Participation. Some 97 per cent of the girls and young women... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3195672/give-girls-and-young-women-more-pathways-politics?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3195672/give-girls-and-young-women-more-pathways-politics?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Oct 2022 06:30:09 +0000