Gender Integration
The goal of our Gender Integration portfolio is to support funders and implementing partners in substantively increasing their resourcing for external gender-transformative programming, leading to amplified impact in development sectors and advancing a more just world. To do this, we work with organizations to build ownership and capacity at every level for thoughtful and effective gender integration throughout their work.
At GCfGE have a core team of staff and consultants with diverse expertise across sectors and geographies. We work with values-aligned partners to offer a suite of products, either as stand-alone or comprehensive programs.
Some examples of these offerings are:
Grow leadership ambition for and commitments to gender equality with accompanying accountability mechanisms.
Build strategies that center gender equality informed by intersectional feminist analysis incorporating tactics and goals to address gender gaps and barriers and advance gender equality for amplified impact.
Assess gender in programmatic portfolios to understand opportunities and potential challenges in deepening a gender focus in programmatic work, and to make specific strategic recommendations.
Strengthen organizational policies and practices on gender equality aimed at understanding the role that organizational culture, policy and practices may be playing in perpetuating unjust gender dynamics, and at setting a path to build an enabling organizational environment for people of all genders to thrive.
Strengthen programmatic action that is intentionally designed to address root causes of gender injustice to advance sector and gender justice goals, with appropriate resources and capacity for gender-related work and including robust measurement for accountability and learning.
Forge new connections and collaborate with diverse individuals and partners, building bridges across fields and sectors while challenging entrenched power structures, prioritizing the perspectives, inputs, and leadership of those most adversely affected by inequality and injustice.
Shift mindsets and culture to recognize the harmful effects of entrenched gender inequality and injustice and the amplified impact that can be unlocked through integrating a focus on gender equality in strategies, programs, and practices.
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This scoping review evaluates what is known about the influence and relevance of gender barriers to immunization and gender-intentional interventions for improving immunization sector outcomes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
July 2024
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This report is the result of an evidence review commissioned by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to better understand the impact that addressing gender inequality has on effective responses to malaria elimination. Based on a targeted review of the available evidence on gender and malaria, this report synthesizes the current state of research and knowledge about the ways in which gender mediates the adoption of preventive technologies and behaviors and access to treatment, as well as the potential for gender-intentional or transformative approaches to research, product development, and advocacy. Taken together, the evidence reviewed strongly suggests that addressing gender inequalities in malaria-endemic settings has the potential to accelerate burden reduction and disease elimination. An examination of the linkages between women’s empowerment and malaria burden reduction finds strong evidence that strengthening women’s agency over resources and household-level decision-making authority can significantly decrease malaria incidence and prevalence. This review highlights that gender-intentional and transformative approaches have the potential to unlock improved malaria outcomes, and should therefore be of critical priority to future malaria prevention, treatment, and elimination efforts.
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This report reviews the current state of research and knowledge on key gendered economic structures relevant for macroeconomic performance and gender-intentional macroeconomic policy in the context of lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Deficits in both theory and data that might usefully inform policymaking, as well as explanations for delays in adoption of best policymaking practices in this area, are identified. The report also proposes promising areas of grantmaking. The report contributes to the existing literature by focusing on macroeconomic policy in LMICs, by exploring specific areas of academic scholarship where progress might be most impactful in terms of gendered analysis, by identifying opportunities for improved and innovative gender-disaggregated data collection to inform macroeconomic policymaking in lower-income countries, and by discussing the political economy of gender-intentional macroeconomic policymaking.
June 2023
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This training package on gender and polio has been adapted from a pilot training with the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET), a grantee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The materials are intended for use with polio and eradication and surveillance project implementation teams that have an interest in applying a gender lens to their work. It is an introductory training for participants to begin to explore the interaction of gender with health outcomes and polio eradication and surveillance efforts; it is not intended to train staff on how to design gender-intentional programs design, nor is it intended to replace the need for local gender expertise in polio-related programming and interventions. To ensure a safe and effective training, skilled facilitators with strong gender and health expertise are required for the delivery of these materials.
February 2022
Spotlight on our Gender Integration Work
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Reducing Gender Bias in Household Consumption Data: Implications for Food Fortification Policy
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Design, Analyze, Communicate (DAC): Integrating Sex-Gender for Informative Clinical Trials
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Gender integration of agricultural innovation: implications for the genetically modified crop product development pipeline
We do this by providing end to end solutions for our partners that are both tailored to their specific sectoral goals and aim to move them to greater action to advance gender justice. To achieve this two-pronged goal, we:
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We get to know the unique needs and challenges a partner faces, and bring feminist analysis to the problem they are trying to solve for.
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We leverage our unique operating model to build a team of staff and consultants with deep and diverse sector and geographic expertise, and new perspectives and approaches on what, and who, constitutes ‘expertise’.
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We bring together the best available data and evidence, and recognizing that standard approaches to data generation systematically miss perspectives of those most affected by inequality and injustice, we also look for alternative sources of information to complete our analysis.
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We learn from practitioners, and other fields/disciplines working to advance gender justice to continually adapt our approaches and bring insights from movements to our projects.
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We build highly tailored, actionable approaches to meet partners where they are while expanding their vision of what is possible. We translate data and evidence of what works into actionable recommendations that are relevant and resonate in specific contexts of diverse sectors.
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We leverage our deep practitioner expertise to advise on the deployment of custom-built solutions, anticipating potential challenges, and helping to course correct along the way.
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We work with our partners to measure progress, learn from their experience, and adapt our and their approaches to gender mainstreaming.
More Research from GCfGE
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Gender Analysis of Pastoral Systems in Three Sub-Saharan African Countries
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Gender and the impact of COVID-19 on demand for and access to health care: analysis of data from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa
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Gender and the impact of COVID-19 on demand for and access to health care: Intersectional analysis of before-and-after data from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa
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Gender and the impact of COVID-19 on demand for and access to health care: Intersectional analysis of before-and-after data from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa