Overview of the AGALI Program

The Adolescent Girls’ Advocacy & Leadership Initiative (AGALI) promotes global health and development by enhancing the capacity of Latin American and African leaders to improve the health, education, and livelihoods of adolescent girls and young women.

Implemented by the Public Health Institute (PHI), AGALI strengthens the ability of senior leaders to improve adolescent girls’ human rights, health, and socio-economic well-being, while simultaneously empowering young women to develop their own solutions to the obstacles they face.

Adolescent girls disproportionately bear household burdens, are often unable to access economic and educational opportunities, and suffer from social, physical, and psychological violence. In addition, young women are subject to legal and political frameworks that negate their human rights, and often suffer the consequences of unwanted pregnancy, early childbearing, unsafe abortion, and HIV/STI infection. AGALI builds the capacity of local and national leaders to develop innovative policy and programmatic solutions to the challenges facing adolescent girls and young women in Guatemala, Honduras, Liberia, Malawi, and Ethiopia.

The Public Health Institute (PHI) is an independent, nonprofit organization based in Oakland, California, and dedicated to promoting health, well-being and quality of life for people throughout California, across the nation and around the world. As one of the largest and most comprehensive public health organizations in the nation, PHI is at the forefront of research and innovations to improve the efficacy of public health statewide, nationally and internationally.