The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities of women’s pre-crisis social, economic, and political situations. This brief offers an overview of how COVID-19 affects women’s employment and wages, education, health and nutrition, unpaid care work, and increases GBV rates. It also provides recommendations for gender-responsive policies and sector-specific strategies to help preserve hard-won gains for women.Read More
Policy Brief
Gender Integration in Social and Behavior Change: What Does it Take?
Social and behavior change (SBC) programs and interventions across health and non-health sectors seek to shift behaviors of individuals, as well as the norms that underpin them. This brief pulls from a recent review of SBC-focused literature and highlights promising practices on how to integrate gender considerations in health and non-health SBC interventions.Read More
Attracting and Retaining Talent through Inclusive Family-Friendly Policies
This brief aims to show that investing in family-friendly policies, such as parental, maternity and paternity leave, makes business sense and benefits both employers and employees. It provides guidance in prioritizing, establishing, and implementing family-friendly policies to ensure that everyone is treated fairly at work by offering concrete recommendations on how to implement these policies and support parents in the workplace, marketplace, and community.Read More
Fighting Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Rape as an Issue in South Sudan
This policy brief discusses sexual and gender-based violence in the Republic of South Sudan and outlines challenges that need to be addressed within communities and at national government and international levels. It outlines a need for policies that, through national and local processes, can help open up dialogue between policymakers and citizens to ensure SGBV is an issue of national priority.Read More
Defining and Advancing Gender-Competent Family Planning Service Providers: A Competency Framework and Technical Brief
Gender norms influence the ability of individuals, couples, and families to meet their desired family planning needs. This resource helps health care providers overcome biases and offer quality, gender-sensitive, transformative services to enable all clients to make voluntary and informed decisions about their family planning needs, improving both gender equality and reproductive health outcomes.Read More
Gendered Impacts of Bullying on Mental Health Among Adolescents in Low-and Middle-Income Countries
This brief investigates the associations between bullying, violence, and other risk and protective factors that contribute to poor mental health among in-school adolescent girls and boys, specifically the gendered drivers of poor mental health and its association with other health and development outcomes, such as substance use, sexual activity, violence, and suicide.Read More
