This report examines: How the United States Department of State (DoS) and USAID incorporate support for marginalized groups abroad into their strategies and activities; how DoS and USAID track progress toward achieving goals and objectives that support such groups; and actions DoS and USAID have undertaken to respond to recent directives related to advancing equity and support for such groups.

This field action report describes WI-HER’s process of using iDARE to increase viral load suppression in Uganda; improve identification, management, and response for gender-based violence survivors in Kenya; and improve mass drug administration access and uptake among school-age children in Tanzania throughout the COVID pandemic.

This report examines trends in adolescent childbearing using techniques that focus on the most vulnerable girls, including child mothers, girls with repeat adolescent childbearing, and births that occur in dangerously quick succession. It finds that nearly one third of all women in low- and middle-income countries begin childbearing in adolescence (i.e., at age 19 years and younger), and nearly half of first births to adolescents are to child mothers aged 17 years and younger.

Social protection can reduce income poverty and food and economic insecurity, address financial barriers to accessing social services, and promote positive development outcomes throughout the life course— particularly for women and girls. To strengthen the evidence base for social protection's contribution to gender equality, this report proposes and presents an analytical approach to evidence generation on gender-responsive social protection for gender-transformative change.

Iraqi children suffer from repeated displacement and exposure to violent conflict, which have both immediate and long-term impacts on their physical, emotional, mental, and psychosocial well-being. This research report explores women empowerment and children well-being factors in Iraq and looks at how women’s socio-demographic factors and empowerment components are associated with child well-being.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects the health of women across the globe, with the greatest burden encountered by women in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This scoping review aims to summarize and critically examine primary prevention interventions addressing IPV perpetration by men and boys in LMICs and identify gaps in the evidence base.