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What’s Family Planning Got to Do With It? Intimate Partner Violence + Family Planning Intersectionalities and What We Can Do about Them
Join us at the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) Forum in Rio de Janeiro to exchange ideas, network, and learn about what approaches work in linking intimate partner violence and family planning. This satellite event will showcase findings from the Passages Project’s new report, “Exploring the Linkages between Intimate Partner Violence and Family Planning,” and highlight the latest research from Promundo’s Program P. Come ready to share your insights and expertise on what is known about the determinants of intimate…
Read More »(Webinar) Addressing Gender Through Integrated Population, Health, and Environment Approaches
Gender and gender equity play an important role in the health and well-being of people, their environment, and their communities at large. Integrated Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) approaches work to address interrelated challenges, and often address some gender indicators in the process. In this webinar, Kathryn Farley (International Center for Research on Women) will speak about the importance and methods of measuring gender indicators; Dorah Taranta (Pathfinder International/HoPE-LVB Project) will speak about experiences from a PHE project in Kenya…
Read More »(Webinar) Toolkit Launch: Meeting the Sexual & Reproductive Health Needs of Young Married Women & First-time Parents
Pathfinder International and our E2A project are launching a K4Health toolkit for implementers, donors, and others who are working to support sexual and reproductive health services and interventions for married youth and first-time parents (FTPs) around the world. The toolkit draws on Pathfinder’s nearly 20 years of experience working with these groups and includes resources developed and adapted by Pathfinder and E2A for projects in Uganda, West Africa, and Tanzania, as well as dozens of resources from other organizations. Join…
Read More »Sustainable Healthcare at the Intersection of Innovation and Technology
A discussion to showcase the partnership between CMMB, the Conrad Hilton Foundation, Johns Hopkins and KPMG through the “digital health and women religious” initiative. Convey the key insights and findings of this initiative Indicate how this initiative will help strengthen the capacity and enable the mandates of scores of congregations of women religious in the six countries Highlight the contribution this initiative would make to the SDGs in general and SDG3 in particular
Read More »Policy Forum Cracking the Code – Girls Education in STEM
Girls and women face multiple challenges that compromise their education opportunities. One area of longstanding concern is the low rate of female participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and consequently STEM careers. This event will bring together over 200 delegates, including:Ministry of education and other officials; education practitioners and educators; researchers and experts; representatives of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations; development partners; civil society representatives; private sector stakeholders and others.
Read More »Promundo’s Experience of Gender Transformative Training
Jane Kato-Wallace, Senior Programme of Promundo-US will speak about the organisation’s implementing Program P, a gender-transformative approach to engaging men as caregivers.
Read More »(Webinar) Developing Gender-Sensitive M&E Systems: A Review of Guidelines on How to Integrate Gender into an M&E Framework and System Assessment
The important role gender plays in health and overall development has been increasingly recognized in the past decade. This recognition includes several global and US policies and strategies being developed to guide international health and development programming with the aim of addressing gender inequities as a key strategy in attaining improved health and development outcomes. With these important shifts in policy, program design, and interventions comes the need to adapt and align our M&E systems—and more broadly, country health information…
Read More »(Webinar) Early Evidence from the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) Program
This webinar will present key lessons from the GAGE program, a nine-year (2015-2024) UK government-funded program that is designed to generate evidence on programs and policies to help adolescent girls in the Global South reach their full potential. Presenters Dr. Nicola Jones, Director, GAGE, Overseas Development Institute Prof. Sonia Livingstone OBE, London School of Economics Rachel Marcus, ODI Research Associate, Woodstock Research Consulting
Read More »Margins of the High Level Political Forum for Sustainable Development
Stop by this side event at the UN High Level Political Forum sponsored by World Vision, Plan USA, Mercy Corps, Land O'Lakes International Foundation, ACDI/VOCA and the Gender Practitioners Collaborative. Event Summary The objective of the event is to share a common, global set of minimum standards that encourages organizations to commit to and invest in efforts that advance gender equality for all. We seek to harmonize the practice of mainstreaming gender into programing and organization to promote increased communication and coordination, offering an…
Read More »(Webinar) Can Violent Couples Change?
There is now a growing body of research indicating that prevention interventions can reduce intimate partner violence (IPV); much less is known, however, about how couples exposed to these interventions experience the change process. Understanding the dynamic process that brings about the cessation of violence in relationships is essential for understanding how interventions work (or don’t) to reduce IPV. This webinar discusses how couples’ involvement with SASA!—a violence against women and HIV-related community mobilisation intervention developed by Raising Voices and implemented by CEDOVIP in Uganda—influenced…
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