Resources

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

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Summary

What We Do: Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

Understand USAID's commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment and its top priorities for shaping programming.

    Tags:
  • Economic Growth
  • Gender-Based Violence
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Gender Analysis
  • Policy
  • Women’s Leadership
  • Strategy
Strategy

National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality

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.

    Tags:
  • Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance
  • Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Entrepreneurship, Digital, and Financial Inclusion
  • Gender Equality in the Workforce
  • Inclusive Development
  • Women's Economic Empowerment
  • Women’s Leadership
  • Policy Formation
  • Strategy
Brief

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
Strategy

USAID Women, Peace, and Security Implementation Plan

Read this strategy that seeks to increase women’s meaningful leadership in political and civic life by helping to ensure they are empowered to lead and contribute, equipped with the necessary skills and support to succeed, and supported to participate through access to opportunities and resources.

    Tags:
  • Adolescent Girls/Youth
  • Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance
  • Women, Peace, and Security (WPS)
  • Women’s Leadership
  • Policy Formation
Policy

USAID Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Policy

Review the policy that provides the vision for USAID’s work to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment around the world.

    Tags:
  • Agriculture and Food Security
  • Conflict and Insecurity
  • Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance
  • Digital Access and Technology
  • Economic Growth
  • Education
  • Energy and Infrastructure
  • Gender-Based Violence
  • Global Health
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Land and Property Rights
  • Biodiversity, Conservation, and Natural Resources Management
  • Water Security, Sanitation, and Hygiene
  • Data and Decision-Making
  • Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance
  • Engaging Men and Boys
  • Inclusive Development
  • Policy
  • Women’s Leadership
  • Activity Design and Implementation
  • Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting
  • Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
  • Partnerships
  • Policy Formation
  • Project Design and Implementation
  • Strategy
Summary

Clean Cities, Blue Ocean Gender Equality & Women’s Economic Empowerment Fact Sheet

Learn about how Clean Cities, Blue Ocean (CCBO), USAID’s global, flagship program for implementing the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act, works to advance local solid waste management systems and circular economies, empowering and supporting women as leaders in the process.

 

 

    Tags:
  • Economic Growth
  • Biodiversity, Conservation, and Natural Resources Management
  • Climate, Environment, and Natural Resource Management
  • Gender Equality in the Workforce
  • Women's Economic Empowerment
  • Women’s Leadership
  • Activity Design and Implementation
Training and Learning Material

Advanced Gender Integration and Leadership (AGILE)

Take this course for USAID Gender Advisors and Gender Points of Contact to learn about gender integration, gender analysis, leadership, and resilience. 

    Tags:
  • Gender Analysis
  • Women’s Leadership
Guidance

Addressing GBV through Water Security, Sanitation, and Hygiene Programs

Understand why USAID's water security, sanitation, and hygiene (WSSH) programs should integrate programming to address gender-based violence (GBV) and learn specific strategies to accomplish this.

    Tags:
  • Water Security, Sanitation, and Hygiene
  • Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance
  • Gender-based Violence
  • Menstrual Hygiene Management
  • Women’s Leadership
Summary

Safe from the Start ReVisioned

Read about the Safe from the Start ReVisioned initiative that aims to empower women to combat gender-based violence from a leadership perspective.

    Tags:
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Adolescent Girls/Youth
  • Education
  • Gender-based Violence
  • Humanitarian Response, Crises and Conflict
  • Women’s Leadership
Research and Reports

Women’s Political Participation and Leadership Assessment Framework

Explore this in-depth framework that analyses women's political empowerment, provides guidance on how to increase supply and demand for women leaders, and develops a new measure of women's political leadership.

    Tags:
  • Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance
  • Data and Decision-Making
  • Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance
  • Gender Equality in the Workforce
  • Women’s Leadership