This assessment looks at civil service organizations partnering with the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage, and reviews and documents organizations that are youth- or women-led and those supporting adolescent girls’ empowerment and agency in health. The assessment seeks to guide UNICEF and UNFPA on how better to support and identify opportunities for improving gender-transformative approaches within the Global Programme going forward.

The UNFPA in Myanmar commissioned this study to gain an initial insight into the sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender-based violence prevention and response, and mental health and psychosocial support needs of persons with disabilities in the program’s target states in Myanmar. The findings of this assessment informed the formulation of practical recommendations for improving the delivery of services to persons with disabilities in the country.

This tool provides a method for measuring the knowledge, attitudes, and skills of individual providers in six domains of gender competency: gender sensitive communication, promoting individual agency, supporting legal rights and status related to family planning, engaging men and boys as partners, facilitating positive couples’ communication and cooperative decision making, and addressing gender-based violence. By completing this self-assessment, providers can determine their current level of gender competency, and thereby identify areas of strength and weakness in each domain.