This report presents findings from one of the first multi-country analyses to examine the short- and long-term impacts of having a child before age 18 on employment and monetary compensation (cash earnings). Research suggests that women receiving cash are more likely to be able to make decisions about their own healthcare and education. The report dives further into women’s economic empowerment by analyzing married women’s...Read More
Youth and Gender
“Prevention of Violence Is Possible”: A Conversation With Rachel Jewkes About What We Have Learned From a Five-Year Research Program Addressing Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls
Rose Wilcher, co-chair of the Interagency Gender Working Group’s Gender-Based Violence Task Force, recently spoke with Rachel Jewkes, Consortium Director of the What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls Global Programme. What Works, a program funded by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) from December 2013 through March 2020, worked in 13 countries across Africa and Asia to build the evidence...Read More
2019 State of the Art in Engaging Men in Health & Development: A Technical Marketplace
The importance of engaging men in gender equality, health and development efforts has never been more evident. Yet the question of how to meaningfully engage men as consumers of health services, supportive partners and agents of change while balancing many other key principles of our work remains a challenge for our community. As male engagement work grows in depth, breadth, and visibility, new issues emerge....Read More
An Interview With Sarah Eckhoff on CARE’s Gender Marker and Integrating Gender Into Development Programming
On May 29, 2019, the Interagency Gender Working Group (IGWG) hosted their annual plenary, a space for members to come together to discuss challenges and learning opportunities they’ve faced in their gender work over the past year. This year the IGWG introduced a new plenary format in which members participated in group discussions. Following short technical presentations selected in response to members’ proposals, presenters led...Read More
Doing Research in Conflict Settings: Gender Mainstreaming and Ethics
This report outlines lessons from six case studies and workshop discussions with representatives of consortium research teams. The case studies have been grouped into three categories that capture different stages of research, from inception and design to data collection and dissemination: 1) composition of research teams; 2) engaging with research participants; and 3) ethics and the purpose of research.Read More
The Gender Impact Assessment and Monitoring Tool
This tool was developed to help women and gender civil society organizations implement the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with a particular focus on SDG 5. It aims to provide partners with a common understanding of how to assess gender issues within local, regional, and national contexts, and allows partners to measure gender-sensitive indicators of each SDG and assess changes and progress over time...Read More
