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SPACE Inclusive Information Systems for Social Protection: Intentionally Integrating Gender and Disability
Assignment
March 15, 2021

Digital information systems serving the social protection sector, and especially social assistance, are increasingly prominent and will continue to be, as is the case within all other sectors. “Why? Because the ability of a country to care for its people and respond to their lifecycle needs depends on its ability to identify those who are… Read more

Gender, Gender and disability, Social Protection
Gender
Social Protection
Strengthening gender mainstreaming in disability inclusive programmes
Blog
February 10, 2020

This blog originally appeared on the Institute of Development Studies website, and was written by Stephen Thompson. In January 2020, a gender and disability workshop was held at IDS as part of the Inclusion Works and Disability Inclusive Development programmes. The aim was to strengthen the inclusion of gender mainstreaming within the disability programmes through raising awareness of gender… Read more

Disability, Gender, Gender and disability, Gender mainstreaming
Gender
Water and Sanitation
Nine ideas for gender transformative WASH programming
Blog
July 30, 2019

This blog offers advice for practitioners wanting to apply gender transformative approaches to WASH programming.  This blog was written by Elaine Mercer for the CLTS Knowledge Hub and originally appeared on their website.  It has been partly adapted from the workshop ‘Gender Transformative WASH’ (April 2019) that the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) co-facilitated with Dr Sue… Read more

Gender, gender and sanitation, gender and WASH, gender transformative approaches, WASH
Education
Gender
Gender norms in the Western Balkans
Helpdesk Report
July 20, 2017

The Western Balkans remains a region dominated by patriarchal gender norms. The biggest challenge for improving gender equality is changing the mentality of women and men towards traditional gender roles (Petričević, 2012). The literature consistently identifies social attitudes as a barrier to increasing gender equality. Many people are not aware of women’s rights or gender… Read more

Conflict, Education, Gender
Education
Gender
Health
Nutrition
Social Protection
Promoting gender equality through UNICEF-supported programming in young child survival and development
Document Library
June 7, 2016

Gender, in a given society at a specific time and place, is of critical importance to young child survival and development (YCSD). Effective YCSD programmes must respond to how gender influences the character of social norms, processes of decision-making, division of labour and differences in access to resources among girls, women, boys and men. In… Read more

child survival, Gender
Gender
Health
Social Protection
Rosemary Morgan on gender in health systems research
HEART talks
May 20, 2016

Rosemary Morgan is a Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In this HEART talks video, she talks about the project she works on, ‘Research in Gender and Ethics (RinGs): Building Stronger Health Systems’, and about the importance of making gender integral in health systems research. RinGs came about as a project… Read more

Gender, gender and health, Gender inequality, health inequalities, health systems
Education
Gender
Health
Social Protection
Adolescents in emergencies
Document Library
April 8, 2016

It is increasingly recognised that in emergency programming efforts adolescents need to be viewed as a distinct group with distinct vulnerabilities and also great potential for contributing to the emergency response. Adolescents tend either to be ignored as a target group during times of emergencies or to be conceptualised as passive victims or active security threats…. Read more

Adolescents, Emergencies, Gender, Health
Health
What is the role of gender and ethics in building stronger health systems?
Blog
February 11, 2016

While gender and ethics are taken into account as cross-cutting issues in many international development programmes, to date there has been very limited attention to gender in health systems. Often there is no disaggregation of data by sex and many terms such as community health workers and village health committees are gender neutral, when the… Read more

Gender, health systems, health systems strengthening
Gender
Health
Social Protection
The importance of understanding gender equity in humanitarian responses to health issues
HEART talks
February 10, 2016

Valerie Percival is an Assistant Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. She leads the ReBUILD project ‘Building Back Better: Taking forward empirical research on the opportunities and constraints for building gender responsive health systems in post conflict contexts’. This is the focus of Valerie’s HEART talks video. The first issue for humanitarian focus… Read more

Gender, gender and health, gender-based violence, Post-Conflict, reconstruction
Gender
Health
Social Protection
Health systems and gender in post-conflict contexts: building back better?
Document Library
February 10, 2016

The post-conflict or post-crisis period provides the opportunity for wide-ranging public sector reforms: donors fund rebuilding and reform efforts, social norms are in a state of flux, and the political climate may be conducive to change. This reform period presents favourable circumstances for the promotion of gender equity in multiple social arenas, including the health… Read more

Gender, gender and health, gender-based violence, Post-Conflict, reconstruction
Gender
Health
Nutrition
Social Protection
Promoting women’s attendance at ANC: target groups and motivating messages
Assignment
February 5, 2016

This report outlines the main findings of ORIE operations research on promoting women’s use of antenatal care (ANC) services. The study supports refinement of the advocacy strategy for this, implemented by the Working to Improve Nutrition in Northern Nigeria (WINNN) programme. Summary of the key recommendations: Develop a targeted advocacy strategy for adolescent girls. Develop advocacy messages… Read more

Gender, Maternal, Nigeria, WINNN
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