Gender data is crucial to make every woman and girl count. Understanding it can answer crucial questions about women’s lives. Donors are putting dollars behind data collection, and big tech players are wondering how to lend their expertise. This focus area, powered by UN Women, highlights how data is being used to inform policy and advocacy to advance gender equality.Read More
Technical Guidance
RESPECT Women: Preventing Violence Against Women
This framework outlines steps for a public health and human rights approach to scaling up prevention of violence against women programming, building on the evidence compiled in the UN Prevention of Violence Against Women Framework (2015) and additional systematic reviews. The document’s primary audience is policymakers. Program implementers working on preventing and responding to VAW will also find it useful for designing, planning, implementing, and...Read More
Defining and Advancing Gender-Competent Family Planning Service Providers: A Competency Framework and Technical Brief
Gender norms influence the ability of individuals, couples, and families to meet their desired family planning needs. This resource helps health care providers overcome biases and offer quality, gender-sensitive, transformative services to enable all clients to make voluntary and informed decisions about their family planning needs, improving both gender equality and reproductive health outcomes.Read More
Children’s Consent Framework: Policy and Practice for Maturity-Aligned Engagement of Children in Decisions About HIV-Related Medical and Social Services and Management of Confidential Information
The children’s consent framework proposes standardized policies and practices to help providers, caregivers, and children navigate individual- and situation-specific decisions about who provides consent for HIV medical and social services or sharing of confidential HIV data.Read More
Addressing Women’s and Men’s Gender-Specific Needs in HIV Service Delivery: Learnings From Project SOAR
Gender norms and power dynamics play a key role in HIV service delivery and whether or not individuals can access services and practice protective behaviors. This brief covers the approaches Project SOAR has used to integrate gender into their research and how those approaches effectively engage men, women, boys, and girls in HIV prevention and care.Read More
Understanding the Impact of Medicalization on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
This web feature outlines the best available information on the impact of the medicalization of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). It synthesizes quantitative data on trends over time, the relationship between medicalization and overall FGM/C prevalence, and qualitative data on provider and community perspectives.Read More
