CHARISMA is an empowerment counseling intervention designed to help women use oral pre-exposure prophylaxis and other antiretroviral-based HIV prevention technologies safely and effectively by addressing dynamics of their relationships with male partners, including exposure to intimate partner violence. The mobile version of CHARISMA is now available, featuring accessible counseling materials and videos, especially during times of human resource constraint within the COVID-19 pandemic.

This summary gathers top considerations and recommendations from IUCN’s expansive study on Gender-Based Violence and Environment Linkages: The Violence of Inequality. Published in this critical post-2020 period of environmental decision-making, and with less than a decade to meet targets of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, this summary is designed to support policymakers and implementers to address and respond to gender-based violence and environment links.

This resource provides operating units with an overview of key considerations and programming recommendations for USAID activities to make simple and effective adaptations to their COVID-19 response plus address emerging and existing gender inequality gaps. The tool offers guidance on how to avoid doing harm and mitigate the risk of gender-based violence, including sexual exploitation and abuse. This resource is also available in Spanish and French.

This how-to note details the practices that are recommended by each set of standards on Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Sexual Harassment. The note lists practices under policy, prevention, response, and reporting plus provides additional points to consider in the application of global standards.

This updated review looks at the evidence on factors affecting access to and uptake of family planning for women and girls with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries and the evidence of good practice on increasing fully free and informed contraceptive choice for women and girls with disabilities.

Based on a survey of practitioners working across conservation projects, the findings in this paper demonstrate the importance of both external drivers (funding requirements) and a supportive environment (capacity building, technical, and financial support) in incentivizing a focus on gender in the conservation sphere.