By Morgan Mickle, Gender Specialist, WI-HER, LLC “A third of low birth weight babies die within the first twelve hours after delivery, largely because they get cold very quickly, causing them to stop feeding and leaving them more susceptible to [...]
By Morgan Mickle, Gender Specialist, WI-HER, LLC On February 1, 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Zika virus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/259583/WHO-RHR-17.23-eng.pdf?sequence=1 after information surfaced [...]
By Kelly Dale, Gender Specialist “She’s awesome!” “I love her!” “Wow! I need to learn more about her.” Colleagues trying to guess the name of the famous women on their backs These were the exclamations heard around the [...]
By Morgan Mickle, Gender Specialist, WI-HER, LLC Nina Easton from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) moderates conversation with Peace Corps Director, Dr. Jody Olsen. Photo Credit: Morgan Mickle, WI-HER, LLC Yesterday evening I broke from [...]
Banner honoring women hangs in Bogota, Colombia/Photo Credit: Morgan Mickle, WI-HER By Morgan Mickle, Gender Specialist, WI-HER, LLC Student’s in Paraguay perform traditional dances/Photo Credit: Tisa Barrios Wilson, WI-HER March 8 is a date known around [...]
By Morgan Mickle, Gender Specialist, WI-HER, LLC Participants in Antigua (left) and Dominica (right) share their ideas on well -baby clinic defaulters. Photo Credit: Morgan Mickle, WI-HER, LLC (2018) In November and December 2018, I had the privilege [...]
By Hania Bekdash, Graduate Research Intern, and Erin Taylor, Program Officer, WI-HER, LLC For anyone familiar with Yemen and its history, “resilient” is a common term used to describe its locals, particularly women, who have experienced a long string of [...]
By: Erin Taylor, Program Officer While the Zika virus is today known for its prevalence in Latin America, it was actually identified in and named after a forest in Uganda in 1947. The virus is mostly spread by the bite [...]
By Katie Krueger Uganda has one of the most progressive policies on refugees in Africa, and even in the world: refugees are settled in communities, as opposed to camps, where they are provided with plots of land to cultivate, and [...]
This is the French-language version of our video about the six-step approach to help teams integrate gender into improvement activities. Le partenaire d’ASSIST, WI-HER, LLC, a mis au point une approche innovante et efficace en 6 étapes pour aider les [...]
