This webinar explored the results of an impact evaluation that examined the effects of a one-off support package provided to women in impoverished rural households, including its impact on psychological wellbeing and women's empowerment. The learning gleaned from this evaluation highlighted the potential of multi-faceted interventions to support vulnerable populations—even in settings affected by multiple crises and under some of the harshest conditions in the world.Read More
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Webinar Recording – Unveiling Gender-Based Violence in the Context of Environmental Degradation and Climate Change: The Role of Data and Storytelling
This webinar highlighted the power of data and stories to raise awareness about the impacts of environmental degradation and climate change on the prevalence of gender-based violence. Speakers presented current efforts to collect this data, the role of data in developing programs related to environment and gender-based violence, and how data and stories can play a key role in development of national and international policies.Read More
Health Equity in Practice: Why Anti-Racism Is an Integral Part of Sexual Violence Prevention
This webinar recording highlights the reasons why anti-racism is an integral part of sexual violence prevention. The webinar is the second in a five-part web conference series that explored how the promotion of health equity translates into real-world prevention strategies and organizational policy by building the toolkits of practitioners and their organizations and offering explicit examples of people putting health equity concepts into practice. Read More
Una Guía Para Chicas de la Pubertad y los Periodos Menstruales
Grow & Know has produced a Spanish version of A Girl’s Guide to Puberty and Periods. This graphic novel and video series, produced by adolescent health experts at Columbia University, provides girls with practical advice, answers to common questions, and real puberty stories from girls across the USA. Read More
A Girl’s Guide to Puberty and Periods
A Girl’s Guide to Puberty and Periods, a book and short video series, was produced by adolescent health experts at Columbia University in collaboration with Grow & Know. The series provides girls with practical advice, answers to common questions, and real puberty stories from girls across the USA. Tackling everything from body odor to big feelings to periods, these resources are designed for girls ages 9-14 for factual guidance on the physical and emotional changes of puberty. Read More
Webinar Recording: Finding the Path Forward: Promoting Equity and Ethics in Research on GBV Among Refugee Populations in the Global South
The GWI’s Building Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Evidence program hosted the first in a four-part webinar series focused on gaps and opportunities around GBV research among conflict-affected displaced populations. The series covers the findings from a year-long process to map out the existing published evidence and illuminate key research gaps to identify those missing, what isn’t yet known, and how to expand approaches to research and evaluation of GBV. Read More
