Women and girls are among the population groups most deeply impacted by compounding effects of global disruptions, from the COVID-19 pandemic to climate change. This article presents an analysis of the gendered impacts of crises and the need to prioritize high-impact, cross-cutting best practices to address them, including increased access to voluntary family planning and reproductive health through holistic approaches. Read More
Toolkit
School-Related Gender-Based Violence Measurement Toolkit
This toolkit delivers practical guidance and resources for measuring the prevalence and extent of students’ experiences of school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV), and provides methods for assessing key risk factors and drivers of SRGBV. The toolkit includes a survey to measure all forms of SRGBV, plus helps identify and measure the risk factors and drivers of SRGBV. Read More
Virtual Programs to Advance Gender Equality: A Checklist for Adaptation
This brief contains a summary checklist of the best practices and recommendations for designing, implementing, and evaluating virtual interventions. This tool can serve as a starting point to guide an organization to effectively plan for a new program or to adapt an existing intervention. Read More
Strengthening Safeguards: Strategies for Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Environmental Projects
This tool was originally developed for a set of fisheries project partners in Southeast Asia at their request, following the results of a gender analysis process, to better understand and prioritize resources and action to tackle gender-based violence (GBV). Now modified for broader awareness-raising, this tool provides an array of specific interventions that environment programs, donors, and practitioners could consider to strengthen attention to addressing...Read More
Advancing Male Engagement in Family Planning and Reproductive Health: An Advocacy Tool
This tool offers guidance on how to advocate with various audiences to bring about further investment in, commitment to, and implementation of male engagement to improve family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) outcomes. Users should adapt and expand upon the tool according to their specific needs.Read More
Getting Practical: Integrating Social Norms Into Social and Behavior Change Programs
This tool is designed for country-level program planners, designers, and monitoring/research staff to be used in a workshop setting to integrate social norms-shifting programming into program design. It features a four-module resource guide, coupled with a comprehensive slide deck, and introductory video, available in both English and French.Read More