Programs and research promote gender equality

Location: sub-Saharan Africa

Our decades of research and experience on issues that affect women's status — including girls' education, reproductive health and economic development — have provided clear evidence on how we can enhance the impact of our work: by challenging gender-based inequalities that pose barriers to development progress. In 2011, we introduced FHI 360's Gender Integration Framework, a crosscutting approach to promote significant and sustainable gains for women and men, girls and boys, and sexual and gender minorities. The framework contains guidance on how to conduct a gender analysis — a systematic way of examining the gender norms and inequalities that are likely to affect the achievement of sustainable results. It then explains how to use those findings to integrate a gender perspective throughout our research and programs. The first regional workshop was conducted in September 2011 in Africa to build capacity among FHI 360 staff to put the framework into practice.