This brief article highlights how SHOPS Plus, USAID’s flagship initiative for private-sector health care, piloted the gender-transformative supportive supervision (GTSS) model in Nigeria to address the gender disparities seen across the family planning workforce. GTSS integrates gender into standard supportive training for supervisors and introduces tools that promote discussions around gender. The pilot suggests that GTSS, accompanied by structural and policy changes in health-care work settings, could contribute to both improved quality of care for clients, and ultimately to a more equitable workplace for providers in both the public and private health-care sectors.
This brief article highlights how SHOPS Plus, USAID’s flagship initiative for private-sector health care, piloted the gender-transformative supportive supervision (GTSS) model in Nigeria to address the gender disparities seen across the family planning workforce. GTSS integrates gender into standard supportive training for supervisors and introduces tools that promote discussions around gender. The pilot suggests that GTSS, accompanied by structural and policy changes in health-care work...Read More
