Interagency Gender Working Group (IGWG)

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Guide for Conducting and Managing Gender Assessments

The United States government has strengthened requirements to conduct gender assessments to inform and shape investments in international development. But what does it mean to conduct a gender assessment? How do you get started? This practical guide will lay out the four steps involved in doing a gender assessment, suggest questions to ask, and point out examples to draw on along the way.

GENDER NEWS

Global Health Initiative Supplemental Guidance on Women, Girls, and Gender Equality Principle
The Global Health Initiative has issued new guidance on the women, girls, and gender equality principle to address the gender-related inequalities and disparities.
What Is Gender? And Why Is It Important?
What exactly do gender and gender equality mean, and how can a gender-based perspective help achieve health and development goals?
Gender-Based Violence Against the Transgender Community Is Underreported
The Transgender Day of Remembrance on Nov. 20, 2011, and the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence from Nov. 25 to Dec. 10, 2011, are important opportunities to address the serious but often-ignored issue of gender-based violence (GBV) against transgender persons. The status of the transgender population has important implications for the progress toward gender equality and other human rights.
Gender-Based Violence: Impediment to Health
Gender-based violence is violence involving men and women, in which the female is usually the victim. Often viewed as a protection or legal rights issue, it is equally important that it be recognized as a public health concern. Two policy briefs outline clearly and succinctly how gender-based violence impacts many reproductive health outcomes—unintended pregnancy, maternal and child health, and STIs/HIV—and make the case that health services have a crucial role to play in responding to GBV.

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