By Simon Sensalire, Senior Learning and Adaptation Advisor GBV and COVID After a long and winding road to a community in Eastern Uganda, the WI-HER team, through the USAID Social Behavior Change Activity, visited a household to identify [...]
By Emiia Okon, Gender, Social Inclusion and Community Engagement Advisor During the 2018 Thomas Reuters Foundation Annual Pool, Nigeria ranked 10th on the list of the most dangerous countries for women. According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report [...]
Gender-based violence affects men, women, girls, and boys everywhere. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the world, GBV needs to be a part of the discussion, as Dr. Taroub Faramand shares in this video. Over the course [...]
By Stella Abah, Gender, Social Inclusion, & Community Engagement Advisor, IHP Kebbi State, Nigeria Engaging men as fathers during pregnancy is a positive entry point to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) as well as couple relations. Men’s [...]
By: Emilia Okon, IHP Ebonyi Gender, Social Inclusion, and Community Engagement Advisor In April 2020, the USAID Integrated Health Program (IHP), USAID/Nigeria’s flagship service delivery project, started its work in Ebonyi, a state in southeastern Nigeria, to contribute to the [...]
By Stella Abah, Gender, Social Inclusion, & Community Engagement Advisor, IHP Kebbi State, Nigeria Gender roles are expectations set by society to define and explain how women and men should act based solely on whether they are born male or [...]
Potential gains in GDP from women's labor market participation Brookings Institution estimates by increasing women's labor market participation to the same rate as advanced economies, Africa would gain 44 million more labor market participants. According to Andinet Woldemichael, [...]
WI-HER Program Coordinator Maddison Hall talks about the importance of providing financial literacy education to teach women how to invest both in themselves and their communities. […]
Entrepreneurial women in Jordan leverage the gig economy during COVID A scholar of gender and development shares how leveraging the growing gig economy in Jordan can offer one way forward in changing the perceptions of women entering the [...]
Gender Gaps in Economic Participation and Legal Restrictions Data suggests there is a strong relationship between legal restrictions and labor market participation rates for women across countries. This figure from the IMF, based on a sample of almost [...]
