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Welcome to the IGWG Website
You've reached the website of the Interagency Gender Working Group, where you can find tools and information on promoting gender equity within population, health, and nutrition programs worldwide.
The Interagency Gender Working Group is a network of nongovernmental organizations, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), cooperating agencies, and the Bureau for Global Health of USAID. Its goal is to foster sustainable development and improve reproductive health and HIV/AIDS outcomes.
Femicide: What Is It and Why Isn't Anyone Talking About
It?
The IGWG, USAID, WHO, Intercambios, the Medical Research Council, PATH,
and PRB recently sponsored a half-day panel discussion on femicide—the
murder of women by men, especially by intimate partners. The April 14,
2008 event featured experts from around the world who spoke on identifying
and understanding femicide in its various forms, its prevalence, and its
relationship to international development and reproductive health. The
agenda, participant list, speaker bios, powerpoint presentations, and
a bibliography on femicide are now available here.
Film Raises Awareness of Gender-Based Violence
Women Prevail Against
Violence
Mama Joyce and Josephine are unlikely heroines. Both women were brought
low by abusive husbands who beat them, took away their dignity and choices,
and left them with AIDS. Yet both women emerged as heroines in "SASA!
A Film About Women, Violence and HIV/AIDS." This film tells the story
of how these courageous women triumphed over gender-based violence and
HIV/AIDS and gained power that helped them organize, become activists
in their communities, and build meaningful and rewarding lives. (January
2008)
New Report on Cross-Generational Sex
Addressing Cross-Generational Sex:
A Desk Review of Research and Programs (PDF: 800KB)
This publication, produced by the IGWG and the Interagency Youth Working
Group (IYWG), presents definitions and prevalence of cross-generational
sex, explores interventions and promising practices aimed at reducing
risks associated with cross-generational sex outside of marriage, and
makes recommendations for next steps. (August 2007)
New Report on Child Marriage
New
Insights on Preventing Child Marriage: A Global Analysis of Factors and
Programs (PDF: 1.2MB)
A new study conducted by ICRW for the IGWG found that key factors such
as girls’ education, spousal age gap, and poverty strongly determine
whether girls in the developing world will become child brides. (April
2007)
New Resource on Male Engagement
SysteMALEtizing
Electronic Brochure
Decades of research on reproductive and child health show that everyone
can benefit when men are thoughtfully engaged. But distinguishing among
the number and diversity of programs, research, and tools is daunting. This
electronic brochure, prepared by Margaret Greene for the IGWG, lays
out many of the key resources for working with men and provides a
framework for distinguishing among varied programs, illustrating
the range with strong examples. (July 2006)
Gender-Based Violence Events
GBV Regional Workshop in Uganda
Strengthening regional work on gender-based violence was the topic of
a regional meeting held in Kampala, Uganda in November 2006. More than
100 community activists, advocates, researchers, service providers, health
care professionals and practitioners from 15 countries shared innovative
interventions, unexpected challenges and lessons learned from their collective
experiences in the field. The meeting was a collaborative initiative of
PATH, the IGWG, Raising Voices, the Gender-Based Violence Prevention Network,
and the East Africa Regional Office of USAID. A synthesis report, Strengthening
Regional Work on Gender-Based Violence, on the workshops, presentations
and discussions is available here (PDF: 1MB).
Materials from the
Second Technical Update
The second IGWG Technical Update on Gender-Based Violence was held
in Washington, DC, on November 30, 2005. The day-long seminar focused
on lessons learned and impact of interventions that address GBV from a
reproductive health perspective. Featured speakers included Dr. Kent Hill,
Assistant Administrator of USAID’s Bureau for Global Health, as
well as representatives of global interventions in Africa, Latin America,
and Southeast Asia.
Topics covered included: strengthening health services to address GBV; changing gender norms through edutainment; community mobilization; and evidence-based advocacy
Panelists included representatives of CEDOVIP
(Uganda), Intercambios (Latin America), Men as Partners (South Africa),
Puntos de Encuentro (Nicaragua), Raising Voices (East Africa), Rifka Annisa
(Indonesia), and Soul City (South Africa). The agenda, participant list,
speaker bios, powerpoint presentations are available
here.
GBV Resource from USAID
Addressing Gender-Based
Violence Through USAID’s Health Programs: A Guide for Health Sector
Program Officers (PDF:
376KB)
This guide, prepared by the POLICY project, complements the 2004 literature
review by Alessandra Guedes and is intended to help USAID program officers
integrate gender-based violence (GBV) initiatives into their health sector
portfolio during project design, implementation, and evaluation. (October
2006)
This website was prepared by the Population Reference Bureau for the
Interagency Gender Working Group (IGWG), with funding provided by the
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the BRIDGE project
(GPO-A-00-00004-00). The contents of the website and the links herein
do not necessarily reflect the views of the members of the IGWG, USAID,
or the Population Reference Bureau or its sponsors
Updated 2/26/08 |
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