This document, also available in French, profiles some of MOMENTUM’s dynamic youth partners working across different geographies and contexts in South Asia and West and East Africa. These partners aim to increase health knowledge and demand for health services, shift social and gender norms in their communities, improve access to quality health services, and create adolescent-responsive systems across the humanitarian-development nexus.

In commemoration of International Women’s Day (March 8), this blog post reflects on the progress made toward gender equity in the labor force. It examines how women are faring around the world, makes comparisons with the United States, and looks at what the evidence shows on how to close the gender wage gap.

The CEFMU and Sexuality Working Group has launched a new website housing its resource library and Working Goup updates. The site is now a destination for events, publications, and other news from its group of international and national organizations working with and for adolescent girls to advance their rights and opportunities.

This meeting report shares key takeaways from the Interagency Gender Working Group’s (IGWG) Gender-Based Violence Task Force event “Exploring the Impact of Reproductive Coercion on Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes,” focusing on program implementation challenges and emerging issues in reproductive coercion, as well as promising practices for addressing reproductive coercion. The report also offers recommendations for program implementers, researchers, and governments, donors, and multi-lateral institutions that emerged from the discussion.

This infographic highlights and synthesizes some of the key takeaways from the 2022 IGWG Plenary, suggesting promising practices for identifying community leaders and improving partnerships with community leaders and social movements in gender transformative programming. This resource intends to be a tool for program designers and implementers who wish to foster more community leadership and improve collaborations with community leaders within existing and future programs. The infographic also offers insights for program designers and implementers to strengthen programs that have already integrated elements of community mobilization and leadership.

This case study (also available in Spanish, French, and Arabic) highlights the practical importance of coordination between cash and voucher assistance and gender-based violence (GBV) actors at all levels and shows how working in silos is detrimental to assisting to the fullest extent possible women and girls affected by GBV. It documents the conditions that led to the creation of a joint taskforce (TF) in Northwest Syria to tackle this gap and the challenges faced by the TF, as well as the programmatic and operational learning from the coordination process.