In 2021, HP+ convened family planning, gender, and family planning financing experts to discuss how to better integrate gender into family planning and health financing systems to make access to family planning information and services more gender-equitable for all clients. This brief provides a summary of the meeting and aims to advance dialogue and find common ground for including a gender lens in family planning financing.

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.

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.

Women’s empowerment is linked to positive reproductive health outcomes among adults but is understudied among youth. This study develops and analyzes a new youth empowerment scale, exploring the relationship between empowerment in women ages 15–29 and outcomes on the ideal number of children and intention to use family planning. Read the analysis brief and the “Measuring Youth Empowerment” working paper to learn more about the youth empowerment scale.

This brief explores the linkages between gender norms and women’s land rights, applying these concepts to the land and natural resources sector. Intended for organizations designing and implementing programs on land tenure and land-based investment, the brief offers guidance on the steps to identify context-specific norms, design norms-shifting interventions, and monitor harmful shifts that hinder women’s access to and control over land and natural resources.

This updated service delivery brief provides evidence-based strategies supporting drug shops and pharmacies providing a wider variety of family planning methods and information. With training and support, staff can facilitate the use of a broad range of modern contraception—especially in areas where the unmet need is high, access to family planning services is poor, and health worker shortages and other barriers prevent women, men, and youth from accessing family planning services.