This brief explores the linkages between gender norms and women’s land rights, applying these concepts to the land and natural resources sector. Intended for organizations designing and implementing programs on land tenure and land-based investment, the brief offers guidance on the steps to identify context-specific norms, design norms-shifting interventions, and monitor harmful shifts that hinder women’s access to and control over land and natural resources. Read More
Policy Brief
Pharmacies and Drug Shops: Expanding Contraceptive Choice and Access in the Private Sector
This updated service delivery brief provides evidence-based strategies supporting drug shops and pharmacies providing a wider variety of family planning methods and information. With training and support, staff can facilitate the use of a broad range of modern contraception—especially in areas where the unmet need is high, access to family planning services is poor, and health worker shortages and other barriers prevent women, men, and youth from accessing family planning services. Read More
Family-Friendly Policies for Workers in the Informal Economy: Protecting and Ensuring Social Protection and Care Systems for All Children and Families in the Context of COVID-19 and Beyond
This policy brief advocates for family-friendly policies to protect and ensure social protection and care systems that are good for children, good for women, and good for the economy. The brief features an increased focus on the well-being and working conditions of caregivers in the informal economy and their children’s development in low- and middle-income countries. Read More
Investment in Nationally Representative Data on Violence Against Children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
This policy brief provides a series of recommendations for improving national data on violence against children and adolescents and using data and evidence to strengthen national-level violence prevention efforts. The findings and recommendations are based on the results of a global meta-analysis of factors associated with physical, sexual, and emotional violence against children in low- and middle-income countries. Read More
Gender-Based Violence and Environment Linkages: Summary for Policymakers
This summary gathers top considerations and recommendations from IUCN’s expansive study on Gender-Based Violence and Environment Linkages: The Violence of Inequality. Published in this critical post-2020 period of environmental decision-making, and with less than a decade to meet targets of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, this summary is designed to support policymakers and implementers to address and respond to gender-based violence and environment links. Read More
Adaptive Management: Learning and Action Approaches to Implementing Norms-Shifting Interventions
This brief highlights the adaptive management approaches used and learning gained throughout implementation of two Passages Project-supported interventions during the period of 2015–2020: Masculinite, Famille, et Foi and Growing Up GREAT!. You can also view the recording for the associated webinar, “Learning, Adapting, and Norms-Shifting: Lessons from the Passages Project,” in both French and English. Read More
