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.
Gender-responsive budgeting is a strategy that creates budgets that work for everyone. Failing to account for women's needs can lead to unintended adverse outcomes, including an annual burden of approximately $10.8 trillion in unpaid care and domestic work for women aged 15 and above. This article offers key recommendations on how to design and implement effective and equitable gender-responsive budgets.
This webinar explored the results of an impact evaluation that examined the effects of a one-off support package provided to women in impoverished rural households, including its impact on psychological wellbeing and women's empowerment. The learning gleaned from this evaluation highlighted the potential of multi-faceted interventions to support vulnerable populations—even in settings affected by multiple crises and under some of the harshest conditions in the world.
Humanitarian assistance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been inadequate for many years, with a widening gap between assistance coverage and growing needs. Due to these limited resources, the WFP has only been able to reach one third of the acutely food insecure in Eastern DRC, disproportionately impacting women and girls because of their responsibilities in caring for and feeding their households. As a result of this lack of resources, women and girls are forced to take greater risks to make ends meet, which leaves them vulnerable to increased cases of gender-based violence.
For decades, passing laws that establish 18 years as the minimum legal age of marriage has been a cornerstone of advocacy efforts to prevent child, early and forced marriages and unions (CEFMU) and promote the rights of adolescent girls and young women. However, there has been minimal investment made in evaluating the impacts of such laws. Read the CEFMU and Sexuality Working Group’s position statement and recommendations that call for investment in research to explore how laws can be better formulated and implemented to advance the rights of adolescent girls and young women.
While the world has reduced its homicide rate over the last 10 years, there remains major challenges to overcome. Data disaggregation shows that compared with females, the global male homicide rate is more than four times the rate for women. This blog emphasizes the critical need to look at peace and security from a gender perspective.
This new policy brief—from the Wilson Center's Maternal Health Initiative—explores the direct and indirect impacts of climate change on maternal and newborn health outcomes, highlights existing policies working to prevent or mitigate these impacts, and offers recommendations to improve resiliency to the growing impacts of the climate crisis.
