Overview

HP+ recognizes gender equality as a core development objective, fundamental to the realization of human rights and key to achieving positive health and development outcomes. Critical to our work is a clear understanding of how gender influences policy environments, the development and implementation of health programs, and health outcomes. As a cross-cutting issue, gender equality is incorporated into HP+ activities, both to facilitate achievement of positive results and to ensure that all people—regardless of sex, gender identity, or sexual preference—enjoy equal human rights and socially-valued goods, opportunities, resources, and services.

Publications

Gender-Based Violence and Family Planning: An Implementation Assessment of Uganda’s Policy Framework

Advocacy Tools for Policymakers and the Media to End Gender-Based Violence in Mali

Health and Population from a Muslim Perspective

View all Gender Publications

What We Do

HP+ integrates gender principles into all aspects of our work by:

• Examining our activities through a gender lens to guarantee that the health services provided are consistently accessible and acceptable to all populations
• Addressing any inequalities we identify to ensure that all aspects of our work—from strategy and project design phases through implementation, monitoring, and evaluation—integrate best practices with regard to gender
• Supporting the efforts of health systems partners to make certain their work respects and protects individuals' rights, regardless of age, marital status, sex, sexual preference, and/or gender identity or expression
• Promoting women's leadership to strengthen individual and collective leadership, policy, advocacy, and joint accountability capabilities
• Measuring our impact by collecting gender-disaggregated data

News

Mauritanian Reproductive Health Law Moves to Implementation

#IWD2018: Pressing for Progress

Building a Movement for Respectful Maternity Care