This blog was developed by Francesca Alvarez, Alyssa Bovell, Emily Clark, Joy Cunningham, and Maia Johnstone based on content shared through a recent event hosted by the IGWG Gender-Based Violence Task Force. Event Overview Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is backed by three decades of empirical and scientific evidence and is linked to health outcomes including delayed sexual debut, reduced risky health behaviors, increased use of...Read More
Gender-Based Violence
IGWG Members Take the Mic Series: Addressing Community Backlash to Male Engagement in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Gender-Based Violence Interventions
The “IGWG Members Take the Mic” blog series intends to highlight lessons learned and best practices from and innovative approaches to gender transformative programming and research from IGWG members’ work and advocacy efforts to advance gender equality outcomes in global health. This blog is the second and final installment in this series. Read the first blog in the series exploring myths and misperceptions, social consequences,...Read More
Examining Comprehensive Sexuality Education in Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response Efforts
Background: On December 5, 2023, the Interagency Gender Working Group’s (IGWG) Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Task Force held a virtual event, Examining Comprehensive Sexuality Education in Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response Efforts, bringing together more than 120 participants from 39 countries. Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is backed by three decades of empirical and scientific evidence and has been linked to specific health outcomes like increased use...Read More
Infographic: Intimate Partner Violence and Family Planning—2023 Update
In commemoration of the 2023 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence international campaign, the IGWG has revised its Intimate Partner Violence and Family Planning: Intersections and Opportunities for Action infographic, originally published in 2016. This infographic explores the impacts of intimate partner violence (IPV) on family planning (FP), as well as offers recommendations for addressing IPV and improving FP outcomes.Read More
Learning Event: Harnessing FP Insight as a Tool to Support Knowledge Exchange in GBV Prevention
This IGWG GBV Task Force event brought together IGWG members and those who use GBV-related information to explore the FP insight platform—a knowledge management tool that can help gender experts and practitioners find and share GBV response and prevention knowledge and resources to a broader audience of family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) and gender professionals.Read More
IGWG GBV Task Force Meeting Report: Exploring the Impact of Reproductive Coercion on Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes
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.Read More
