These interactive maps display the prevalence of CEFM and FGM/C in countries where these harmful practices occur. Stakeholders can use these maps to identify locations with high rates of CEFM and FGM/C—particularly “hot spots” at the national and subnational levels. This information, along with a context analysis, can help inform the implementation of programming to help reduce these harmful practices.Read More
Toolkit
Adolescent Girls’ Consultations Toolkit
This toolkit aims to lay a foundation to build a common understanding and coordinated approach to creating a participatory space to engage adolescents and adults in all their diversity and other key stakeholders on the aspirations, challenges, needs, and priorities of adolescent girls and young women. This resource provides practical tools and tips for consulting with diverse adolescent girls, their families, and communities. Read More
Job Aid Tool for USAID Activities: Carrying Out a COVID-Specific Gender Analysis
This resource provides operating units with an overview of key considerations and programming recommendations for USAID activities to make simple and effective adaptations to their COVID-19 response plus address emerging and existing gender inequality gaps. The tool offers guidance on how to avoid doing harm and mitigate the risk of gender-based violence, including sexual exploitation and abuse. This resource is also available in Spanish and French. Read More
Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion (GYSI) Analysis Framework and Toolkit
This comprehensive framework and toolkit serves organizations wanting to conduct a gender analysis with the intersectionality lens of sex, gender, age, and social inclusion, particularly for sexual and reproductive health and rights. The GYSI framework also has a rapid Risk Assessment Matrix, which can support organizations conducting risk assessments of an intervention geography or population. Read More
Choices and Challenges Tool
This interactive tool highlights trends in women’s contraceptive use by age group, as well as reasons for discontinuation and related reproductive outcomes. By understanding their choices, health policy and program decisionmakers can better deliver high-quality, client-centered services that enable women and couples to make the best family planning choices for themselves. This spring 2021 update includes data from Mali, plus new data from Bangladesh and Zambia. Read More
Family Planning and the Gendered Impacts of Crises on Women: An Effective Tool Across Sectors to Support Women’s Empowerment and Build Resilience to Shocks
Women and girls are among the population groups most deeply impacted by compounding effects of global disruptions, from the COVID-19 pandemic to climate change. This article presents an analysis of the gendered impacts of crises and the need to prioritize high-impact, cross-cutting best practices to address them, including increased access to voluntary family planning and reproductive health through holistic approaches. Read More
