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.
Understanding risk and protective factors around IPV is essential for designing effective prevention strategies. This review highlights that prospective evidence for perpetrator- and context-related risk and protective factors for women’s experiences of IPV outside of the United States is urgently needed to inform global policy recommendations.
This course will help you better understand the linkages between gender and the environment. It will provide you with the knowledge and tools to mainstream gender with facts, figures, and framework in order to effectively make change for sustainable development.
This quick reference guide aims to help researchers, advocates, program managers, and policymakers understand, interpret, and use the latest female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) data with the goal to help end FGM/C within one generation.
This article provides a framework to identify the resources, institutions, and processes that shape adolescents’ gendered choices and behaviors according to a recent qualitative, longitudinal study. This understanding can be used to inform decisions about when and where to intervene with program and policy levers
The High Impact Practices in Family Planning (HIPs) video, "Supporting Strategic Decision Making in Family Planning," is updated and now available in English and French. The video provides a quick overview of the HIPs, highlighting examples of impact in service delivery, social and behavior change, and the enabling environment.
A massive earthquake struck Nepal in 2015 while it was attempting to implement a political transition and rebuild after 10 years of civil war. Following both the earthquake and the conflict, Nepali women played a crucial yet underappreciated role in relief efforts, and many continue to help the country as it moves into long-term recovery initiatives.
