By Aisha Ahmed, IHP Gender, Social Inclusion, and Community Engagement Advisor, Sokoto State, Nigeria and Morgan Mickle, Gender Specialist, WI-HER, LLC “The initial Child Rights Act was a document which did not include the wider community and as such, did [...]
By Kelly Dale, Gender Specialist Yesterday was the last of the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence, WI-HER calls on legislators and policy members to step up and fulfill their global commitments to prevent and adequately respond to violence. [...]
By: Maddison Hall When I joined WI-HER in the Fall of 2018, I had just returned to school as a Master of Public Health candidate in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. I immediately began working on [...]
November 22, 2019 By Helen John, IHP Gender, Social Inclusion, and Community Engagement Advisor, Bauchi State, Nigeria and Morgan Mickle, Gender Specialist, WI-HER, LLC Participants at VAPP Stakeholder Sensitization Meeting pose for group photograph. Photo Credit: Max Photos [...]
Allison Annette Foster, Thumbiko Msiska, and Marleen Vellekoop. November 20, 2019 Napoleão Bernardes, popular two-time mayor of Blumenau Brazil, opened the annual GPSA Forum 2019 this week. Speaking to a full house of global participants at the World Bank meeting [...]
WI-HER Series: breaking barriers and raising the bar on measurement Part I: What is empowerment? And how do we measure it? By Kelly Dale, Gender Specialist The international development community frequently uses buzzwords or jargon such as mainstreaming, sustainability, equity, [...]
Por Elga Salvador, asesora en género senior, WI-HER, LLC El 10 de abril 2019, el equipo del Proyecto de USAID Aplicando la Ciencia para Fortalecer y Mejorar los Sistemas de Salud (ASSIST) de la República Dominicana llevó a cabo la Segunda [...]
By Elga Salvador, Senior Gender Technical Advisor, WI-HER, LLC On April 10, the USAID-funded Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Health Systems (ASSIST) Project held the second “Learning Session” with the Quality Improvement (QI) teams of the Prenatal Care [...]
By: Tisa Barrios Wilson Sofía is 20 years old and lives in a rural town in Northern Peru. She was recently married to Mattias and soon after was thrilled to learn that she was pregnant with their first child. Her [...]
By Morgan Mickle, Gender Specialist, WI-HER, LLC Participants in Trewlany pose for celebratory photo after successful first training.Photo Credit: Morgan Mickle, WI-HER, LLC (2018) In October 2018 I arrived in Jamaica from the United States to facilitate two weeks of [...]
