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.
Stakeholders can use this how-to note to gain a deeper understanding of how to better integrate mental health concerns gender-based violence prevention and response activities. The note advocates for using survivor-centered and trauma-informed approaches.
This first-of-its-kind study highlights the experiences, insights, and perspectives of adolescents and youth on the gendered impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual and reproductive health and rights. Throughout each phase of the study, Women Deliver intentionally compared the insights and perspectives of adolescents and youth to the global evidence base by gathering qualitative stories from youth advocates in India, Kenya, and Nigeria.
USAID and Breakthrough ACTION's recent webinar focused on how social and behavior change programming is well suited to addressing equity and social determinants of health in family planning/ reproductive health. The event also explored how to apply these to efforts for social and structural change pertaining to contraceptive autonomy and reproductive empowerment. View the webinar recording, continue the conversation via an online discussion board, and download related resources here.
This paper focuses on promising practices from shelter, hosting, and alternative care guidance and procedures that mitigate gender-based violence (GBV) risks. It is envisaged that this review will inform the development of a practical guidance resource and a key messages brief that address GBV risk mitigation in private and community-based accommodation provided to refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine.
This briefing presents research undertaken in the midst of a critical food insecurity crisis in South Sudan's Pibor and Akobo counties in order to understand its impact on the lives of women and girls. The research found that women and girls’ household chores, their livelihood opportunities, and their access to education have all been impacted. The report highlights what the humanitarian community should do to ensure a gender-sensitive response to these pressing needs.
This case study reviews and captures the progress made in ensuring domestic and external resources are mobilized for RMNCAH+N interventions; how the process has catalyzed prioritization of RMNCAH+N within decentralized systems; improvements in the health indicators; engagement and coordination of all actors including civil society and other stakeholders; and enhancement of mutual accountability across all actors.
