Promoting gender equality is an integral part of our work at IntraHealth. We partner with health workers, clients, policy-makers, and national organizations to develop strategies that raise awareness of and reduce gender-based discrimination, violence, and barriers to health care. And we use those partnerships to combat gender discrimination in the health workforce, intimate partner and gender-based violence, sexual violence, female genital mutilation, child marriage, workplace violence, school-related violence, and more.  

Our key approaches include:

• Developing tools to collect gender-related data and conducting gender analyses and planning
• Promoting equal opportunity and treatment in employment, training, and education
• Affirming girls' and women’s social and economic rights through interventions such as policy change and implementation to increase their access to better livlihoods and economic resources
• Applying a multisectoral approach to support health workers, police officers, and others to respond to gender-based violence in health care facilities and in clients’ lives