Gender Resources
YouthLead has curated a list of recommended tools and resources to aid you this week as we highlight the importance of gender rights.
Economic Empowerment
How Do We Challenge Limitations So Young Women Can Prosper?
Courtesy of: YouthPower2: Learning and Evaluation, Chelsea Pallatino
Globally, girls and young women experience more disadvantages compared to their male counterparts due to damaging social and gender norms that limit their ability to access education, assets, information, and opportunities for personal and professional development. This blog explores overcoming change.
2020 Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Policy
Courtesy of: USAID
The 2020 Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Policy affirms USAID's vision of a prosperous and peaceful world in which women, girls, men, and boys enjoy equal economic, social, cultural, civil, and political rights and are equally empowered to secure better lives for themselves, their families, their communities, and their countries.
A Global Desk Review of Financial Education’s Contribution to Girls’ Economic Empowerment
Courtesy of: Aflatoun International
This global review is part of the thought leadership component of the Credit Suisse Financial Education for Girls (CSFEG) program. The purpose of this work is to provide recommendations regarding the design, implementation and research on programs for adolescent girls aged 10 to 18 that aim to contribute to their economic empowerment by containing a financial education component.
Women’s Empowerment in the Era of Social Distancing
Courtesy of: BSR
Approximately 190 million women are employed in global supply chains, yet many are in precarious positions. This blog post explores COVID-19’s consequences for women in global value chains and closing the digital gender gap.
Equality/Equity
Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Policy
Courtesy of: USAID
Building on the Agency’s decades of experience, the new policy provides guidance on pursuing more effective, evidence-based investments in gender equality and female empowerment and incorporating these efforts into our core development programming.
The White House Gender Policy Council
Courtesy of: The White House
The Gender Policy Council (GPC) was established by President Biden to advance gender equity and equality in both domestic and foreign policy development and implementation. The GPC covers a range of issues—including economic security, health, gender-based violence, and education—with a focus on gender equity and equality, and particular attention to the barriers faced by women and girls.
Engaging Men and Boys in Achieving Gender Equality
Courtesy of: WHO
This summary report highlights the cross-cutting themes, lessons learned, research results, and challenges during the 2009 global symposium "Engaging Men & Boys in Achieving Gender Equality.”
Girls Challenging the Gender Rules
Courtesy of: Plan International
The Real Choices, Real Lives Cohort Study tracks the lives of more than 120 girls across nine countries, providing insights into the choices, decisions and realities that shape girls’ lives as they grow up in a gendered world.
SDG Gender Index and Gender Advocates Data Hub
Courtesy of: DCAF, OSCE/ODIHR, UN Women
Equal Measures 2030 launched its SDG Gender Index, a new tool designed to tell the story of progress for girls and women and to measure whether the world is on track to achieve gender equality by 2030. The pilot Index responds to the urgent need for data on gender equality, given their critical role in progress towards the goals.
Courtesy of: DCAF, OSCE/ODIHR, UN Women
The toolkit focuses both on advancing gender equality within security and justice institutions and how the security and justice sector can help to achieve gender equality. Drawing on the past decade of policy innovation and best practices, it highlights what success looks like and how it can be achieved.
Gender Based Violence
Activism Against Gender-based Violence: Starter Kit
Courtesy of: YouthPower2: Learning and Evaluation
As movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp have gained traction around the globe, the spotlight on sexual violence and rape culture has reached an all-time high. This kit features the 23 best resources on the YouthLead website relating to gender-based violence.
Safe Spaces for Girls Starter Kit
Courtesy of: YouthPower2: Learning and Evaluation
This kit brings together tools to create safe spaces for young women and girls, promoting UN Sustainable Development Goal 5 to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.” Here you will find 16 resources aimed at NGOs, businesses, and individuals to create, improve, and promote spaces where young women and girls can thrive.
Courtesy of: USAID
Responses to previous global public health emergencies and pandemics and COVID-19 to date clearly show that integrating a commitment to gender equality and women's empowerment in activity design and implementation is vital to supporting affected communities and saving lives. Here is a list of issues and recommendations for all sectors.
Building and Sustaining Communities of Care
Courtesy of: Making Cents International, Leah Goldmann
Evidence shows high rates of burnout and turnover for groups working to end GBV, with many professionals being survivors themselves, experiencing secondary trauma, and/or facing backlash in their efforts to create safe communities for women and girls. This blog post discusses integrating the practice of self and collective care into our work to end violence against women and girls.
Reproductive Rights
Courtesy of: YouthPower Learning and Evaluation
This webinar, focused on HIV/AIDS and sexual reproductive health, builds upon sector-specific analysis from the recently released Systematic Review of Positive Youth Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
Maternal Health Vision for Action
Courtesy of: USAID
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is working with the global community to End Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM). The USAID Maternal Health Vision for Action outlines how USAID will help achieve a maternal mortality rate of fewer than 50 deaths per 100,000 live births.
Capacity and Consent: Empowering Adolescents to Exercise their Reproductive Rights
Courtesy of: Center for Reproductive Rights
This publication sets forth the barriers adolescents face in realizing their sexual and reproductive health and rights, discusses recent critical developments in the human rights framework underpinning these rights, and proposes a way forward for guaranteeing all adolescents the full exercise of their sexual and reproductive health and rights.
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