This brief aims to show that investing in family-friendly policies, such as parental, maternity and paternity leave, makes business sense and benefits both employers and employees. It provides guidance in prioritizing, establishing, and implementing family-friendly policies to ensure that everyone is treated fairly at work by offering concrete recommendations on how to implement these policies and support parents in the workplace, marketplace, and community.Read More
Toolkit
Sexual Harassment, Exploitation, and Abuse: A Toolkit for Building a Prevention and Response Program
The toolkit serves as a step-by-step guide for organizations looking to lead sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse (SHEA) prevention and response program (PRP) trainings for organizational staff. It provides a framework for implementing institution-wide programming for SHEA prevention and response, and offers best practices and minimum standards in developing a SHEA PRP.Read More
Advancing Male Engagement in Family Planning + 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.Read More
OPTIONS HIV Prevention Ambassador Training Package
The HIV Prevention Ambassador Training Package is designed to support adolescent girls and young women in taking a meaningful role in the rollout of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in their communities. Through interactive activities, discussion, and action planning, it prepares HIV prevention ambassadors to share information with their peers about oral PrEP as part of combination HIV prevention, support peers interested in using oral PrEP,...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
Cash and Voucher Assistance and Gender-Based Violence Compendium: Practical Guidance for Humanitarian Practitioners
Cash and voucher assistance (CVA) contributes to the prevention or response to gender-based violence (GBV) through economic assistance. This resource focuses on practical guidance in terms of GBV risk mitigation for all humanitarian actors using CVA. It can also be used as an advocacy tool to remind all field-based practitioners, managers, and coordinators about their responsibility for mainstreaming GBV risk mitigation across CVA and sectoral...Read More
