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1. Give adolescent girls an officially recognized identification.

2. Collect data on adolescent girls and disaggregate it by age and gender to assess whether programs are reaching adolescent girls.

3. Increase funding for adolescent girls - and track what it achieves.

4. Expand opportunities for girls to attend secondary school.

5. Re-focus HIV/AIDS prevention strategies to focus on adolescent girls.

6. Re-orient health delivery systems to work for adolescent girls.

7. Economically empower adolescent girls by building and protecting their assets.
   
8. Make the law work for adolescent girls.

9. Equip adolescent girls to advocate for themselves and their communities.

10. Mobilize communities, families, men and boys to support adolescent girls.

This is our roadmap to change. Based on findings from the Girls Count Report, these actions across multiple sectors provide a comprehensive strategy to improve the lives of adolescent girls around the world.