Integrating gender is fundamental to and routine throughout our health programs.
Resource - Fact Sheet
The Global Family Planning Visibility and Analytics Network (VAN) platform enables access to shared data and increases communication between relevant stakeholders to strengthen health supply chains and empower communities in their reproductive and family planning choices.
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HRH2030 and USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health developed a global gender-competency framework and eLearning for family planning service providers to improve gender-awareness in health workers.
Resource - Toolkit
We highlight the essential role of clean and working toilets in expanding access to water, sanitation and hygiene in healthcare facilities, ensuring dignified births and high-quality care for all mothers, babies, and families.
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Food insecurity and inadequate dietary intake are major public health problems across Khatlon province in Tajikistan. However, the Feed the Future Tajikistan Agriculture and Water Activity aims to directly engage rural women in agricultural productivity, boosting awareness of better nutrition and sanitation behaviors.
Resource - Technical Brief
Rural women’s groups in Mali are proving that community health systems get stronger when national-level interventions are paired with community-level capacity building to make communities self-reliant.
Blog Post
Female community health workers are essential to reaching underserved segments of the population, especially in weaker health systems, yet they do not always receive the professional recognition and support they deserve.
Blog Post
A sustainable, gender-sensitive, pro-poor social enterprise is helping Bangladesh get closer to achieving universal health coverage.
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Rwanda made great strides in improving its previously faltering health care system, but family health services still had a long way to go.
Project Page
In many low- and middle-income countries, health systems face shortages of qualified health workers, and decision-makers lack the data and tools needed to optimize existing resources.
Project Page
The gender structure of the global health field is a pyramid – predominantly female at the lower levels with fewer women present at top leadership.
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