The COVID-19 pandemic emphasizes the importance of destigmatizing transgender and gender-nonconforming people—as marginalized populations are often excluded from adequate testing, care and treatment, and vaccinations. This policy brief points to several ways to improve collection and use of gender-disaggregated data, calling for adequate human, financial, and time resources for gender-sensitive data collection efforts, including sensitization, training, and quality testing of gender-disaggregation questions and instruments.

Gender-based violence (GBV) is one of the main drivers of migration from Central America. KIND’s latest report details how the pandemic exacerbates already pervasive forms of violence against children and women in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras who are forced to flee due to unequal access to support and resources. The report offers recommendations on addressing GBV to the governments of these nations and the United States.

This free online course provides learners with a foundation on the global menstruation movement, advocating to ensure the menstrual needs of everyone, everywhere are met. Through a series of lectures and examples from global experts, participants will gain knowledge and skills on approaches for menstrual health and hygiene program design and implementation, research, monitoring, and advocacy, with an emphasis on the needs of low-income and vulnerable populations around the world.

Conducted in urban Kampala, this study examines the complex contexts within which women make decisions about reporting domestic violence. Based on an intersecting theoretical lens of structural violence, power, and the body, findings suggested that women reported to formal structures primarily for severe physical or economic abuse; women did not report less severe abuse, and often abandoned reporting even severe abuse. Yet, while overwhelmingly women were discouraged from reporting domestic abuse, there were important signs of change.

This policy brief makes the case for recognizing family planning and girls’ education as effective long-term climate adaptation strategies that should be integrated into climate deliberations, funding priorities, and country-level actions. Explore this policy brief to learn more about incorporating girls’ education and family planning into climate adaptation and resilience, utilizing these strategies to help address women and girls’ distinct vulnerabilities, and compelling reasons for prioritizing girls’ education and family planning within national climate adaptation strategies.

Despite the growing numbers of persons living in humanitarian settings, including armed conflict, and the growing recognition of the need to ensure the sexual and reproductive health and rights of persons living in these contexts, gaps in the provision of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services persist. This technical paper examines obligations under international law and commitments made by states at the United Nations regarding access to SRH information and options for civilians in humanitarian settings, including in armed conflict.