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Adolescents and Youth, Content, Content Partner, Equity and Empowerment, FP/RH, FP/RH Programs, Gender, gender norms, gender-based violence (GBV), Global, Knowledge Management, Policy and Advocacy, Program Implementation, PROPEL Youth & Gender, Youth Leadership

The ICPD30 Global Dialogue on Technology, held in New York in June 2024, aimed to harness the transformative power of technology to advance women's rights. Key takeaways include the potential of feminist-centered technology to address gender-based violence and inequalities, the need for intersectional feminist approaches to technology development, and the importance of government and tech corporations

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Adolescents and Youth, AYSRH, Content, East and Central Africa, Equity and Empowerment, FP/RH, FP/RH Programs, Gender, gender-based violence (GBV), Knowledge Management, Program Implementation, Uganda

Knowledge SUCCESS, in collaboration with the WHO/IBP Network, is featuring implementation stories that showcase implementers who have successfully navigated complexities to deliver impactful outcomes. This feature story on the Heroes for Gender Transformative Action Program (Heroes4GTA).

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Adolescents and Youth, Contraceptive Methods, East and Central Africa, Equity and Empowerment, FP/RH, FP/RH Programs, Gender, gender-based violence (GBV), Kenya, Program Design

Male involvement is a pressing continuous requirement for comprehensive family planning intervention. To reach desired outcomes there is an emphasis for crucial integration of male involvement within targeted communities. Read more on ways to continue to drive efforts to include adolescent boys and men in conversations about contraception.

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Adolescents and Youth, AYSRH, Benin, East and Central Africa, FP/RH, Gender, gender-based violence (GBV), Policy and Advocacy, West Africa

In some areas, FGM is carried out during infancy, as early as a couple of days after birth. In others, it takes place during childhood, at the time of marriage, during a woman's first pregnancy or after the birth of her first child.

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Climate Change and Environment, East and Central Africa, Equity and Empowerment, Gender, gender-based violence (GBV), Uganda

Katosi Women Development Trust (KWDT) is a registered Ugandan non-governmental organization that is driven by its mission to enable women and girls in rural fishing communities to effectively engage in socioeconomic and political development for sustainable livelihoods. KWDT Coordinator Margaret Nakato shares how the implementation of a fishing project under the organization’s economic empowerment thematic area

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Asia, Equity and Empowerment, FP/RH, FP/RH Programs, Gender, gender-based violence (GBV), Policy and Advocacy, Program Implementation, The Philippines, Workforce

Likhaan is a non-government, nonprofit organization established in 1995 to respond to the sexual and reproductive health needs of women experiencing poverty. It runs community-based health programs anchored on three strategies: community education and mobilization; provision of primary, integrated sexual, and reproductive health (SRH) care; and advocacy for rights-based and equitable health policies.

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East and Central Africa, Equity and Empowerment, Gender, gender-based violence (GBV), Uganda

Women continue to experience various forms of violence across Uganda, can training men help to shatter cultural perceptions of gender and correspondingly work to prevent gender based violence?

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Content Partner, Equity and Empowerment, FP/RH, Gender, gender-based violence (GBV), IGWG, Related Health Topics, Workforce

This blog provides an overview of the mental health effects of care work and GBV service provision on health providers, approaches to support self-care and improved health systems, and policy recommendations for the future.

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Contraceptive Methods, Contraceptive Supply & Security, COVID-19, FP/RH, Gender, gender-based violence (GBV), Logistics, Self Care, Service Delivery

Too much information can be almost as bad as too little. That's why we've collected the best resources on voluntary family planning during COVID-19—all in one convenient place.

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