This blog post highlights USAID’s work to empower women taking leadership in land and resource governance across India, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia. The blog shares the inspiring stories of five women who are overcoming gender bias, stereotypes, and discrimination to lead their communities towards more inclusive and environmentally sustainable land and natural resource management. Strengthening women’s ability to access, own, use, and control land and natural resources is a powerful pathway to socioeconomic empowerment and key to development outcomes.

In September 2021, Knowledge SUCCESS and the PACE Project launched the first in a series of community-driven dialogues on the People-Planet Connection Discourse platform. Participants from around the globe engaged in discussion exploring the links between population, health, and the environment, as well as the connections between gender and climate change. This blog post highlights what youth leaders had to say about their experience and their suggestions for how the discourse can be translated into concrete solutions.

The race to adapt to COVID-19 has resulted in a shift to virtual formats for healthcare training and service provision, amplifying reliance on digital technologies. This blog post explores what this means for women seeking services but lacking the knowledge of and access to these technologies.

When health providers are not well themselves, they are less likely to effectively help others. Addressing the mental health of health providers as they provide GBV services to survivors requires approaches that strengthen the mental health wellness and resiliency of both individuals and their communities. This blog provides an overview of the mental health effects of care work and GBV service provision on health providers, approaches to support self-care and improved health systems, and policy recommendations for the future.

Women living with fistula often experience stigma and abuse and become victims of violence and cruelty because of their condition. This blog post highlights the MOMENTUM project’s plans to work in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, to help women living with or treated for fistula effectively reintegrate back into their communities and to connect gender-based violence screening with health services and fistula care.

Writer Natalie Apcar shares highlights from the latest Knowledge SUCCESS Gender Analysis—a deep dive into gender and knowledge management for global health programs, particularly family planning and reproductive health—and provides recommendations for responding to some key challenges, plus a guiding quiz for getting started.