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.
The Lebanese healthcare system faces multiple challenges including limited capacities, shortage of skilled professionals, and inadequate supplies, in addition to hosting a significant number of refugees. This study aimed to review the maternal health outcomes of disadvantaged Lebanese and refugee pregnant women seeking antenatal care (ANC) services at primary healthcare centers in Lebanon.
The impacts of the climate, nature, and pollution crises are demonstrating that environmental programming does intersect with gender-based violence. In this blog, UNDP shares three things they’ve learned from working on gender equality and environmental and social safeguarding in environmental programming.
In this episode of the Talking Global Maternal & Child Health podcast, Dr. Elizabeth Kirkwood and Professor Camille Raynes-Greenow discuss the role that gender plays in health interventions and outcomes in low resource settings. Dr. Elizabeth Kirkwood discusses why it’s important to think about gender and health, in particular for women and children’s health, as well as the work they are currently doing exploring the role of gender on two large clinical trials in Bangladesh.
The Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Referral Pathway provides frontline workers responding to GBV with a one-stop guide that includes information on services presently being offered in Prague. It supports coordination among service providers to meet the needs of survivors. It safely links survivors to supportive and competent services in a timely way and includes any or all of the following: safety and security, health, case management, psychosocial, legal/justice, and follow-up services.
For women living with HIV, cost, distance and stigma can present major barriers to treatment. To ease these challenges, UNFPA launched a program in Indonesia in 2020 offering cash vouchers to people living with HIV. This blog shares the impacts of this program, as well as explores UNFPA’s efforts to strengthen peer support networks for women living with HIV.
Published in recognition of the 2023 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) campaign, this brief highlights six innovative approaches—related to community engagement and system strengthening—for addressing GBV. The case studies from three MOMENTUM projects offer practical insights for gender experts, practitioners, and advocates, particularly those working in GBV prevention and response, to apply and adapt in their own work.
