Female health workers in Senegal juggle full-time jobs—often to posts far from home--and family duties. These responsibilities can exacerbate interpersonal and family conflict and negatively impact the services they provide to their clients. The Senegal Ministry of Health and Social Affairs recognizes the need to be more responsive to gender inequality, including violence and discrimination, in the workplace, and aims to integrate gender equality in the health sector’s human resources management.Read More
Manual/Guide
Gender Service Delivery Standards: Tool and Facilitation Guide
Jhpiego’s gender service delivery standards are a tool to assess and improve the quality of health facilities' provision of gender-sensitive, respectful care. The tool uses a format that allows providers to quickly understand and assess the key elements of gender-sensitive, respectful service delivery, and identify and address gaps and challenges through training, funding, and infrastructure improvements.Read More
Gender Based Violence Programming in Contexts Affected by Violence and Conflict
To design and implement effective programs to prevent gender-based violence (GBV), we must understand GBV’s root causes and drivers and the nuanced factors that contribute to it in contexts affected by violence and conflict. This paper analyzes existing policies and literature, presents case studies, and makes program and policy recommendations.Read More
Fighting FGM/C Through Social Marketing
This short video shares key lessons from two studies in Egypt and Sudan that looked at effective elements of various social marketing campaigns. The video highlights how the four P’s—product, price, place, and promotion—can be used to design a high-quality FGM/C campaign. Read More
New Global Health eLearning Center Course: Postabortion Care
Postabortion care provides a package of family planning and other services for women having complications from a miscarriage, incomplete abortion, or induced abortion. This course provides an overview of postabortion care and the evidence behind it, best practices for programming, and indicators for monitoring and evaluation.Read More
Gender Handbook for Humanitarian Action
“Gender Handbook for Humanitarian Action”, a practical tool that provides guidance to front-line humanitarian workers on how to integrate gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls throughout the humanitarian action cycle, launched on April 17th.Read More
