Adolescent Gate (AGO) is ready to scale impact.
Investment Rationale
Children and adolescents—especially girls, young mothers, and those with disabilities—face heightened risks of abuse, neglect, exploitation, and gender-based violence. Barriers such as stigma, power imbalances, inaccessible reporting mechanisms, and weak safeguarding systems often prevent survivors from seeking help or accessing justice. Exposure to violence not only violates fundamental rights but also undermines education, health, mental wellbeing, and long-term development.
Investing in child protection and GBV prevention is essential to creating safe environments where girls and young people can learn, grow, and lead without fear. Strong safeguarding systems and prevention-focused approaches reduce harm, strengthen community accountability, and enable sustainable development outcomes across all sectors.
AGO’s Approach
AGO implements comprehensive, survivor-centered, and disability-inclusive protection strategies that address risk, response, and prevention.
Protection Education and Safeguarding Systems
AGO integrates protection education into schools and community programs, equipping children and adolescents with age-appropriate knowledge about rights, boundaries, consent, and how to seek help. We strengthen safeguarding systems by training staff and partners, establishing clear codes of conduct, and implementing confidential, accessible reporting and response mechanisms.
GBV Prevention and Referral Pathways
We support GBV prevention through awareness-raising, risk mitigation, and early identification of abuse. AGO establishes and strengthens referral pathways linking survivors to health, psychosocial, legal, and protection services that are youth-friendly and disability-responsive. Survivors are supported with confidentiality, dignity, and informed choice.
Community Norm-Change Initiatives
AGO engages parents, caregivers, community leaders, men and boys, and service providers to challenge harmful norms that perpetuate violence, discrimination, and silence. Through dialogue, campaigns, and collective action, communities build shared responsibility for child protection, gender equality, and the prevention of violence.
Expected Results
✔ Reduced exposure to violence, abuse, and exploitation
✔ Increased awareness of rights and protection mechanisms
✔ Improved reporting and access to survivor-centered services
✔ Stronger safeguarding systems within schools and communities
✔ Positive shifts in social norms that sustain protection and gender equality
Service Overview
