Supportive supervision (SS) focuses on improving the supervisor-provider relationship to set performance objectives and expectations, monitor performance and provide feedback, address training and professional development needs, solve problems, and motivate and support providers to improve productivity. This technical brief provides a theoretical framework that brings together SS as a critically important mechanism for improving the health workplace environment and service delivery, and gender analysis as a tool to illuminate human relationships, power dynamics, and norms. Read More
Policy Brief
Why Emotions Matter: Promoting Female Teachers and Gender-Transformative Social-Emotional Learning in Nepal
This policy brief presents findings from mixed-method research conducted in seven schools and two residential learning centers from three districts (Kathmandu, Lalitpur, and Kavrepalanchowk) of Bagmati province. It seeks to understand the socio-emotional needs of adolescent girls in Nepal, the role of female teachers in addressing those needs, and the support teachers themselves are (or are not) receiving to play this role. Read More
Advancing Gender in the Environment: A Sea of Opportunities in Central America for Gender Equality and Sustainability
The Regional Coastal Biodiversity Project (RCBP) aims to protect nature and livelihoods for future generations by reducing threats to biodiversity in bordering coastal-marine ecosystems in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala along Central America’s Northern Triangle. This brief provides an overview of RCBP’s gender-responsive strategies, activities, and outcomes to date across project sites. Read More
Global Gendered Impacts of the Ukraine Crisis on Energy Access and Food Security and Nutrition
The war in Ukraine has had devastating impacts on women and girls worldwide, widening gender gaps, and increasing rates of food insecurity, malnutrition, and energy poverty. The ensuing cost-of-living crisis has acutely threatened women’s livelihoods, health, and wellbeing and stymied progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. This policy paper reviews the available evidence, recommending urgent attention to its consequences for women and girls. Read More
Public Guarantee of Child Support: A Key Policy for Improving the Economic Well-Being of Lone-Mother Families
Child support—a monetary transfer from a non-resident parent to a lone parent to assist with the cost of raising children following union dissolution—is a critical source of income for the increasing proportion of lone-mother families, especially those at risk of experiencing poverty and material hardship. This policy brief highlights the importance of child support for lone-mother families and factors that may prevent lone mothers from receiving this transfer and offers a series of recommendations to ensure regular and adequate child support is provided. Read More
World Hunger and Its Impact on Girls
This research brief looks to understand the effects of the food insecurity crisis on the girls from "Real Choices, Real Lives", a qualitative, longitudinal study that has been tracking the lives of girls in nine countries in three regions for 15 years. Data from the study shows that the global food crisis reaches beyond contexts classified as at most risk of severe food insecurity, affecting girls in countries all over the world. Read More
