Gender Equality

IntraHealth International promotes gender equality in health care, including working to help more women rise to leadership positions in the health workforce. We know that gender-based discrimination and inequalities can undermine health care, derail education and careers, and prevent countries from achieving their development goals. That’s why we partner with health workers, clients, policy-makers, and local organizations to eliminate gender-based discrimination, gender-based violence, and gender-based barriers to the accessibility, use, and quality of health care.

Our key approaches include:

Conducting institutional and programmatic gender analyses and planning
Promoting equal opportunity and treatment in the health workforce, training, and education systems
Affirming girls’ and women’s economic rights through policy changes, increasing access to economic resources, and more
Responding to gender-based violence in health care facilities and in clients’ lives.

Selected Achievements

Helped train 180 frontline health workers from 43 facilities in Tanzania’s Mara region to manage cases related to gender-based violence.

Built working relationships between police officers, teachers, social welfare workers, and frontline health workers to combat gender-based violence in Tanzania.

Worked with the state governments of Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh in India to delay the age of marriage for girls. We raised the percentage of mothers surveyed who intended to consider their daughters’ consent when it came to marriage from 52% to 92%.

In Ethiopia, implemented our “Five Dimensional Model” for advocacy against female genital cutting, which was selected by USAID in 2007 as one of three best practices in eliminating this form of gender-based violence.

Developed gender-based violence case management protocols for health workers in Madagascar and corresponding training manuals and job aids and designed a referral system to ensure access to services for survivors of violence.

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Gender Equality

Selected Achievements

Helped train 180 frontline health workers from 43 facilities in Tanzania’s Mara region to manage cases related to gender-based violence.

Built working relationships between police officers, teachers, social welfare workers, and frontline health workers to combat gender-based violence in Tanzania.

Worked with the state governments of Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh in India to delay the age of marriage for girls. We raised the percentage of mothers surveyed who intended to consider their daughters’ consent when it came to marriage from 52% to 92%.

In Ethiopia, implemented our “Five Dimensional Model” for advocacy against female genital cutting, which was selected by USAID in 2007 as one of three best practices in eliminating this form of gender-based violence.

Developed gender-based violence case management protocols for health workers in Madagascar and corresponding training manuals and job aids and designed a referral system to ensure access to services for survivors of violence.

126 gender-based violence survivors were treated by 28 Top Réseau providers and 71 peer-educators in Antananarivo, Madagascar, trained on gender-based violence case management.

Implemented a community peer-education approach to reduce child marriages in Yemen, leading to a complete ban on child marriages in one district and a decline in marriages for girls under age 18 in two districts.

Collaborated with the global Nursing Now Campaign to analyze the gender barriers to women’s leadership in the nursing workforce.

Published a report on the status of gender equality and equal opportunity for women and men within Uganda's public health sector to promote gender equality in the human resources for health.

Results from IntraHealth’s formative assessment of sexual harassment in the workforce were used to design a sexual harassment prevention and response system, including reporting mechanisms.

Developed the Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion Analysis (GYSIA) in Uganda and proposed programming recommendations for gender, youth, and social inclusion integration and prevention of violence targeting the 14-year old girl.

Resources

Gender Equality Overview

Investing in the Power of Nurse Leadership: What Will It Take?

Executive Summary of the Report on the Ministry of Health Sexual Harassment Formative Assessment in Uganda’s Public Health Sector

Reasons behind Current Gender Imbalances in Senior Global Health Roles and the Practice and Policy Changes that Can Catalyze Organizational Change

Gender Discrimination and Health Workforce Development: An Advocacy Tool

Promoting Gender Equality in the Health Workforce: An Advocacy Tool

Workplace Violence and Gender Discrimination in Rwanda’s Health Workforce: Increasing Safety and Gender Equality

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Gender Equality

Selected Achievements

Helped train 180 frontline health workers from 43 facilities in Tanzania’s Mara region to manage cases related to gender-based violence.

Built working relationships between police officers, teachers, social welfare workers, and frontline health workers to combat gender-based violence in Tanzania.

Worked with the state governments of Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh in India to delay the age of marriage for girls. We raised the percentage of mothers surveyed who intended to consider their daughters’ consent when it came to marriage from 52% to 92%.

In Ethiopia, implemented our “Five Dimensional Model” for advocacy against female genital cutting, which was selected by USAID in 2007 as one of three best practices in eliminating this form of gender-based violence.

Developed gender-based violence case management protocols for health workers in Madagascar and corresponding training manuals and job aids and designed a referral system to ensure access to services for survivors of violence.

126 gender-based violence survivors were treated by 28 Top Réseau providers and 71 peer-educators in Antananarivo, Madagascar, trained on gender-based violence case management.

Implemented a community peer-education approach to reduce child marriages in Yemen, leading to a complete ban on child marriages in one district and a decline in marriages for girls under age 18 in two districts.

Collaborated with the global Nursing Now Campaign to analyze the gender barriers to women’s leadership in the nursing workforce.

Published a report on the status of gender equality and equal opportunity for women and men within Uganda's public health sector to promote gender equality in the human resources for health.

Results from IntraHealth’s formative assessment of sexual harassment in the workforce were used to design a sexual harassment prevention and response system, including reporting mechanisms.

Developed the Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion Analysis (GYSIA) in Uganda and proposed programming recommendations for gender, youth, and social inclusion integration and prevention of violence targeting the 14-year old girl.

Resources

Gender Equality Overview

Investing in the Power of Nurse Leadership: What Will It Take?

Executive Summary of the Report on the Ministry of Health Sexual Harassment Formative Assessment in Uganda’s Public Health Sector

Reasons behind Current Gender Imbalances in Senior Global Health Roles and the Practice and Policy Changes that Can Catalyze Organizational Change

Gender Discrimination and Health Workforce Development: An Advocacy Tool

Promoting Gender Equality in the Health Workforce: An Advocacy Tool

Workplace Violence and Gender Discrimination in Rwanda’s Health Workforce: Increasing Safety and Gender Equality

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