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
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Engaging Men and Boys in Violence Prevention
This brief includes new results from eight research studies conducted by members of the What Works consortium in various conflict-affected and humanitarian settings. It synthesizes key results and findings, and aims to provide an up-to-date resource for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers on the state of evidence on VAWG in conflict and humanitarian settings.Read More
Recommendations of the Gender Equality Advisory Council for Advancing Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Girls and Women, and Call to Action
The G7’s Gender Equality Advisory Council urges G7 and other world leaders to financially support women’s rights organizations, and conduct meaningful consultation with girls and women, including feminist and grassroots organizations. This set of recommendations presents a package of laws fundamental to advancing the rights of girls and women around the world.Read More
Men on the Move and the Wives Left Behind: The Impact of Migration on Family Planning in Nepal
This study compares access to reproductive health services, fertility awareness, and decisionmaking power among a sample of Nepalese married women ages 15 to 24 with migrant husbands and with resident husbands. Decisionmaking for both groups was dominated by husbands and in-laws, but the study found that fewer women with migrant husbands felt pressure to conform to existing social norms. Married women with migrant husbands have...Read More
Doing Research in Conflict Settings: Gender Mainstreaming and Ethics
This report outlines lessons from six case studies and workshop discussions with representatives of consortium research teams. The case studies have been grouped into three categories that capture different stages of research, from inception and design to data collection and dissemination: 1) composition of research teams; 2) engaging with research participants; and 3) ethics and the purpose of research.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
