Gender Equality
IntraHealth recognizes the key role that women play in the health of communities and prioritizes women’s health and gender issues. This awareness permeates our efforts to build a qualified health workforce, support worker performance and improve the health workplace; strengthen systems, policies and management practices; and increase demand for, access to and use of needed services.
We take a systematic approach to gender analysis and integration in order to address gender issues in program development, implementation and evaluation. We have developed, adapted and applied approaches and tools to address gender issues in health service delivery, client service use and community participation, as well as in human resources for health.
IntraHealth is working or has worked to integrate gender equity activities in many countries, including Armenia, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Lesotho, Mali, Rwanda, Senegal, Southern Sudan and Tanzania. We also provide leadership on global projects such as the Capacity Project and the Extending Service Delivery Project to ensure that gender equity issues are in the mainstream of development programs.
In the course of our work we have developed a number of Resources related to Gender Issues, such as our Gender-Based Violence/Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission of HIV Readiness Assessment Toolkit, which can be found here.
More information on IntraHealth's work on gender equality can be downloaded here.