Through a consultative process among the members of our East Africa FP/RH Community of Practice, TheCollaborative, Knowledge SUCCESS hosted a Learning Circles cohort focused on Gender Transformative Approaches in FP/RH programs, with a particular emphasis on male engagement in FP/RH.
According to UNFPA, Gender Transformative Approaches “seek to challenge gender inequality by transforming harmful gender norms, roles, and relations while working towards redistributing power, resources, and services more equally” between women and men. The Gender Integration Continuum from the Interagency Gender Working Group (IGWG) is a tool to help plan for and assess the level of gender integration in a project. When using the tool, project teams first assess if the project is gender blind or gender aware, and if deemed gender aware, they then decide if the project is gender exploitative, gender accommodating, or gender transformative. The goal is for program interventions to always be gender aware and to be moving toward gender transformative programming.