Resources

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

USAID provides information on 78 activities across 60 countries that the Agency is implementing with resources from the former Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Fund at USAID.

This snapshot provides an overview of activities undertaken with resources from the former Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Fund at USAID to advance women’s economic empowerment globally.

Review this factsheet which outlines Feed the Future's approach to empowering women in food security to overcome barriers and unleash their full potential, including in the wake of COVID-19.

Review the first-ever U.S. national gender strategy which aims to ensure that a focus on gender is mainstreamed across the work of the federal government.

Learn about the gender dynamics in the water, sanitation, and hygiene business and discover action points to enhance women's roles in the sector.

Read the Women's Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act of 2018, which requires that USAID strategies and policies be shaped by gender analysis.

Review the analysis of Youth Excel, a USAID-funded program that aims to advance gender equality by using research, learning, and data to change systems and transform norms, shifting power differentials so that diverse youth influence development decisions.

Learn how USAID's technology programs can address gender-based violence through technology.

Understand the negative impact of gender-based violence on economic growth and trade programs.