Our training materials can be used to introduce a broad range of audiences and backgrounds to important concepts related to gender and health. Each training course focuses on one of five themes that complement the CORE Gender 101 agenda: Gender Integration, HIV + Sexuality, Safe Motherhood, Gender-Based Violence, and Constructive Male Engagement. The courses are designed to meet the geographic and technical needs of cooperating agencies, USAID Missions, and specific projects. Materials range from basics such as using a shared gender vocabulary and programmatic guidance, to user guides on how to conduct a gender analysis, to exercises for gender trainings. The trainings are geared to be used by anyone and with any audience, even those learning about gender for the first time!
Our popular Gender Integration Continuum framework is an important tool to assess how programs do (or do not) address gender and move them toward more gender-transformative actions. An updated User’s Guide for facilitating training on use of the continuum is available, along with other materials.
This brief describes the evidence from interventions that use reflective dialogue, interpersonal communication, mass and/or social media, digital technologies, or a combination of these channels to fortify or shift social norms to increase social support for voluntary family planning.
CHARISMA is an empowerment-based, counselor-administered intervention that was adapted into a mobile-friendly, self-administered website, CHARISMA Mobile. The brief explains CHARISMA Mobile’s purpose and how to use the online content to support women and adolescent girls and young women, including how to adapt it for different audiences or contexts.
This cluster randomized controlled trial evaluated the impact of CHARM2, a gender-synchronized, gender equity-focused family planning (FP) intervention for young married couples to promote uptake of reversible contraceptives and healthy spacing and timing of births in India. The intervention led to improved FP use, reproductive agency, and contraceptive communication.
This brief provides evidence linking couple communication to family planning and reproductive health outcomes, and documents evidence from numerous studies that describe the role of social and behavior change interventions in facilitating this critical behavior. At community and social levels, social norms also influence an individual’s or couple’s desire for, and access to, family planning methods.
This commentary discusses barriers to family planning measures, development, and use, and outlines recommendations to address challenges. Some challenges include: Leveraging existing and routine data collection opportunities; supporting surveys with other methodologies including qualitative and mixed-method observational studies; and evaluations and investments to increase cross-disciplinary collaborations.
This toolkit provides practical, how-to guidance on preventing, mitigating, and responding to gender-based violence (GBV) for agriculture and market systems development technical staff and gender and social inclusion advisors. The toolkit focuses on GBV within the context of day-to-day agriculture programming.
