Our training materials can be used to introduce a broad range of audiences and backgrounds to important concepts related to gender and health. Each training course focuses on one of five themes that complement the CORE Gender 101 agenda: Gender Integration, HIV + Sexuality, Safe Motherhood, Gender-Based Violence, and Constructive Male Engagement. The courses are designed to meet the geographic and technical needs of cooperating agencies, USAID Missions, and specific projects. Materials range from basics such as using a shared gender vocabulary and programmatic guidance, to user guides on how to conduct a gender analysis, to exercises for gender trainings. The trainings are geared to be used by anyone and with any audience, even those learning about gender for the first time!
Our popular Gender Integration Continuum framework is an important tool to assess how programs do (or do not) address gender and move them toward more gender-transformative actions. An updated User’s Guide for facilitating training on use of the continuum is available, along with other materials.
Adolescent Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence: Reviewing the Evidence and Identifying a Way Forward presented by Rebecca Lundgren, Director of Research for the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University on March 22.
Intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual violence (SV) are widespread among adolescents and place them on a lifelong trajectory of violence, either as victims or perpetrators. The aim of this review was to identify effective approaches to prevent adolescent IPV and SV and to identify critical knowledge gaps.
Presentation includes research in Ethiopia on the connection between child marriage, couple communication, and intimate partner violence.
Presentation summary of the journal article, "Child marriage and intimate partner violence: a comparative study of 34 countries" which uses DHS data to conclude women who marry as children are more likely to experience IPV globally and that national age of marriage laws may not be sufficient.
Studies in South Asia suggest child marriage is a strong risk factor for intimate partner violence (IPV), but evidence outside the region is lacking. This study looks at linkages between child marriage and IPV across 34 countries.
