USAID’s Integrated Health Program (IHP) focuses on strengthening maternal health while covering a range of activities, many focused on improving healthcare services, to be an effective driver in reducing maternal mortality in critical states of Nigeria. This blog focuses on IHP’s work with the Sokoto State to strengthen the healthcare system and utilize facility-level efforts as a key strategy for engaging men as beneficiaries and partners for increased access to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health services. Read More
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What Does CARE Mean When We Say, “We Put Gender at the Center?”
This blog explores CARE’s work to address the root causes of poverty and inequality—the underlying reasons why women are unable to show up, have their voices heard, or influence the changes they need so they can secure a better future. To do this, CARE is letting women and girls’ set priorities, centering gender in all projects, integrating gender in policy and process decisions, and providing funding and resources to grassroots women-led organizations.Read More
International Youth Day: Dreams and Confidence Go Hand-in-Hand for Very Young Adolescents in Bangladesh
This blog spotlights MCGL’s Choices, Voices, Promises program, a gender-focused curriculum for very young adolescents (VYAs) between the ages of 10-14 years, as well as parents and communities. The intervention aims to help VYAs discover alternatives to conventional gender roles and behaviors using a curriculum of age and developmentally appropriate activities designed to stimulate discussion and reflection among VYA girls and boys. Read More
Interview With Theresia Ngoe: Women’s Organizations Want to Be Seen as Partners, Not Only Be Told What to Do
Local women-led and women’s rights organizations still face significant barriers to participation in the formal humanitarian architecture. They often report feeling looked down upon by larger organizations, unheard in decision-making spaces, and forced to defend their expertise. In this interview, Ms. Theresia Ngoe discusses the discrimination that local women-led and women’s rights organizations are facing in the humanitarian space and how to tackle the barriers that keep them from accessing funding and resources.Read More
“Dirty Laundry Is Washed at Home”: Increasing Disclosure of Violence Against Women and Girls Through Self-Administered Surveys
Household surveys, a principal source of data on violence against women and girls (VAWG), often underrepresent the extent of the problem due to the survivors’ shame, stigmatization, fear of consequences, and other barriers. This blog outlines a recent IFPRI discussion paper on a randomized experiment in Senegal comparing two methods of survey data collection on VAWG, showing that an anonymous approach yielded consistently higher reported levels of violence across a diverse set of VAWG indicators, as compared to in-person interviews.Read More
Healthcare Will Not Be Accessible to all Until Gender, Sexuality and Disability Are Included
This blog argues that acts of discrimination are institutionalized in systems and decision-making processes that exclude underrepresented groups at the intersection of gender, sexuality, and disability. In order to realize the right to health for these groups, it is necessary to identify and eliminate inequities in accessing health information and services.Read More
