Resources

Practical tools and resources to improve gender equality and women’s empowerment.

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The Gender Digital Divide Primer

Learn the best practices to ensure that USAID digital development addresses digital inequalities. 

    Tags:
  • Digital Access and Technology
  • Entrepreneurship, Digital, and Financial Inclusion
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Brief: Gender Inequality Causes Poverty

Explore research that establishes how unequal conditions for women and girls contribute to poverty and suffering around the world.

    Tags:
  • Economic Growth
  • Data and Decision-Making
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Inclusive Development
  • Women's Economic Empowerment
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USAID Water and Development Technical Series: Gender Equality and Female Empowerment in WASH

Read this technical brief that asserts how programs that support women’s access to sustainable water and sanitation services enable them to reach their full potential.

    Tags:
  • Water Security, Sanitation, and Hygiene
  • Climate, Environment, and Natural Resource Management
  • Maternal Child Health and Nutrition & WASH
  • Menstrual Hygiene Management
  • Women’s Leadership
  • Activity Design and Implementation
  • Project Design and Implementation
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How to Identify and Advance Equitable Social Norms

Understand the definition of social norms, including gender norms, and how they relate to gender-based violence, as well as various tools to identify and address them.

    Tags:
  • Gender-Based Violence
  • Adolescent Girls/Youth
  • Data and Decision-Making
  • Gender-based Violence
  • Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting
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The State of Evidence on Gender and Resilience

Explore this brief which highlights some of the key gendered dimensions of resilience.

    Tags:
  • Agriculture and Food Security
  • Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance
  • Gender Analysis
  • Resilience and Food Security
  • Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
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Covid & Gender Technical Brief

This brief helps international development professionals counter risks that the Covid-19 pandemic poses to progress toward gender equality.

    Tags:
  • Gender-Based Violence
  • Gender-based Violence
  • Humanitarian Response, Crises and Conflict
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How-to Engender Evaluations

Understand key steps and best practices in engendering evaluations.

    Tags:
  • Education
  • Education
  • Inclusive Development
  • Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
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LGBT Vision for Action

Review this set of core principles that outline USAID's vision for action to promote and support the inclusion of LGBT individuals.

    Tags:
  • Gender-Based Violence
  • Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance
  • LGBTQI+ Peoples
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Gender Equality and Climate Finance Technical Brief

Understand why gender equality is important when working towards equitable climate outcomes and climate finance.

    Tags:
  • Climate, Environment, and Natural Resource Management
  • Gender Equality in the Workforce
  • Women's Economic Empowerment
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Fact Sheet: Vice President Harris Launches Women in the Sustainable Economy Initiative, Totaling Over $900 Million in Commitments

Read about Vice President Harris' Women in the Sustainable Economy (WISE) Initiative, as part of U.S. government efforts to advance the 2023 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) theme of “Creating a Resilient and Sustainable Future for All”.

    Tags:
  • Economic Growth
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Gender Equality in the Workforce
  • Women’s Leadership