By Amanda Ottosson, M.S.C., WI-HER Program Officer Source: World Health Organization “People-centeredness” is a fundamental principle of quality health services. When someone seeks care or treatment within a health system, they hope to be understood, heard, and treated [...]
By Maddison Hall, MPH, WI-HER Program Officer Grade 7 students complete classwork; Photo by DFAT photo library “Thuto ke maatla.” In Setswana, spoken in the southern African country of Botswana, this phrase translates to “Knowledge is power.” This [...]
By Stella Mwita, GESI Advisor for WI-HER based in Tanzania, East Africa; and Stella Abah, Lydia Musa, and Helen John, Gender, Social Inclusion, and Community Engagement Advisors. WI-HER, LLC, working within the USAID-funded and Palladium-led Integrated Health Project (IHP), is [...]
By Luseka Mwanzi, WI-HER Gender Coordinator While National Health Center week is a celebratory week in the United States, this year’s theme “The Chemistry for Strong Communities” inspired me to reflect on the global community and the incredible health centers [...]
Gender-Based violence and REDD+ in Fiji WI-HER, along with partner Marstel Day, was one of the first winners of the USAID Resilient, Inclusive, Sustainable Environment Challenge (RISE, 2019-2022). RISE was created to 1) spur greater awareness on the intersection between environmental [...]
Improving Self-Reliance in the Architecture & Engineering Sector in Haiti Under prime AECOM, WI-HER led an infrastructure landscape analysis (2019) for USAID Haiti’s Infrastructure Program (HIP). In Haiti, WI-HER used its LASSR tool (Landscaping Analysis for Sector-Specific Self-Reliance) to guide its assessment and [...]
By Stella Abah, WI-HER Gender, Social Inclusion, and Community Engagement (GSI&CE) Advisor, and Dr. Adamu Nuhu, USAID IHP Kebbi Director Gender-based violence (GBV) is a life-threatening issue that impacts health and violates international human rights law, and principles of gender [...]
By Luseka Mwanzi, WI-HER Gender Coordinator When COVID-19 began in China in late 2019, Kenyans thought it was far-fetched. They never imagined that we as a country would be affected. Reality hit March 16th, 2020, when the president ordered that [...]
Improving the identification, management, and care for survivors of Gender Based Violence in Nakuru, Kajiado, Laikipia Counties, KenyaFinal Project ReportUSAID Afya Nyota ya Bonde ProjectJune 2020 WI-HER, through the USAID Afya Nyota ya Bonde Project, started the implementation [...]
WI-HER, through the USAID Afya Nyota ya Bonde Project, built local capacity of 8 facilities to identify gender-based violence (GBV) and provide survivor-centered care using WI-HER's iDARE methodology and upgrading existing Kenyan national tools to meet international (World Health Organization, USAID, and PEPFAR standards). [...]
