The gap is real. Despite vast programming around the world with the
objective of achieving gender equality, empowering youth, and fostering inclusion among minority groups, minority girls are still invisible, ignored, and left behind.
Making the Space is a ground-breaking contribution that provides new
knowledge at the intersection of gender, age, and identity. Over three
years, research was conducted on the lived experiences, perspectives,
challenges, issues, inner hopes, and dreams for the future of girls from
four minority groups in Cambodia – Indigenous, ethnic Vietnamese,
Cambodian Muslim, and Khmer Krom.
Using a mixed-method approach of innovative participatory methods,
minority girls and young women not only responded to researchers – but became the researchers themselves.
Making the Space offers new findings that take into account the ways
in which their gender, ethnicity, religion, culture, and their age exposed minority girls to overlapping forms of discrimination and marginalisation. It also paves the way for more community-driven and participatory action research by communities who are the most impacted by the studies carried out on them.
Download the book Making The Space
Read a summary in the WPM Research Snapshot in English and Khmer
