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gender-based violence (GBV)
The ICPD30 Global Dialogue on Technology, held in New York in June 2024, aimed to harness the transformative power of technology to advance women's rights. Key takeaways include the potential of feminist-centered technology to address gender-based violence and inequalities, the need for intersectional feminist approaches to technology development, and the importance of government and tech corporations taking action to protect marginalized groups online.
Knowledge SUCCESS, in collaboration with the WHO/IBP Network, is featuring implementation stories that showcase implementers who have successfully navigated complexities to deliver impactful outcomes. This feature story on the Heroes for Gender Transformative Action Program (Heroes4GTA).
Male involvement is a pressing continuous requirement for comprehensive family planning intervention. To reach desired outcomes there is an emphasis for crucial integration of male involvement within targeted communities. Read more on ways to continue to drive efforts to include adolescent boys and men in conversations about contraception.
In some areas, FGM is carried out during infancy, as early as a couple of days after birth. In others, it takes place during childhood, at the time of marriage, during a woman's first pregnancy or after the birth of her first child.
Katosi Women Development Trust (KWDT) is a registered Ugandan non-governmental organization that is driven by its mission to enable women and girls in rural fishing communities to effectively engage in socioeconomic and political development for sustainable livelihoods. KWDT Coordinator Margaret Nakato shares how the implementation of a fishing project under the organization’s economic empowerment thematic area is promoting gender equality and women’s meaningful participation in socioeconomic activities, especially in Uganda’s fishing space.
The quiz highlights adolescent-related competencies, educational resources, and references that are tailored to program empowerment goals.
Likhaan is a non-government, nonprofit organization established in 1995 to respond to the sexual and reproductive health needs of women experiencing poverty. It runs community-based health programs anchored on three strategies: community education and mobilization; provision of primary, integrated sexual, and reproductive health (SRH) care; and advocacy for rights-based and equitable health policies.
Season 3 of the Inside the FP Story podcast explores how to approach gender integration in family planning programs. It covers the topics of reproductive empowerment, gender-based violence prevention and response, and male engagement. Here, we summarize key insights shared by the season’s guests.
Women continue to experience various forms of violence across Uganda, can training men help to shatter cultural perceptions of gender and correspondingly work to prevent gender based violence?
This blog provides an overview of the mental health effects of care work and GBV service provision on health providers, approaches to support self-care and improved health systems, and policy recommendations for the future.
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Grab a cup of coffee or tea and listen in on honest conversations with family planning program experts around the world as they share what has worked in their settings — and what to avoid — in our podcast series, Inside the FP Story.
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