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IGWG
Gender & Health Toolkit
The Interagency Gender Working
Group (IGWG) Gender and Health Toolkit is a compilation of resources for
gender integration and mainstreaming in health policies, programmes, and institutions.
It is designed as a companion to the IGWG website for gender and reproductive
health information, publications, and networking.
"Gender
integration refers to strategies applied during program planning, assessment,
design, and implementation and in monitoring and evaluation to consider gender
norms and to compensate for gender-based inequalities. Gender mainstreaming is
the process of incorporating a gender perspective into the policies,
strategies, programs, project activities, administrative functions, and the
institutional culture of an organisation so that institutional practices
promote greater equality between men and women....
The
tools offered here are instruments or methodologies that help users to collect
and analyze information on gender roles, identities and relations and apply
this information to make programs and health systems more equitable and
effective. These tools are designed to move health practitioners, program
managers and policy makers from awareness and commitment to direct application
and practice. Key documents on programmatic evidence are included as essential
references about the effect of gender integration on program outcomes and
health. These documents can also be used as tools for advocacy.
Click
on the thematic tabs to the right to browse information on each topic. Click on
the document links to open or download a resource to your computer. Most of the
tools in the Toolkit are located under multiple tabs so users can access
resources through different entry points, depending on their interests. The
subheadings under each main tab are arranged in alphabetical order, and the
resources within each subheading are arranged by publication date, with the
most recent first.
The
IGWG Gender and Health Toolkit is intended to be interactive: a
feedback form allows users to post comments and to suggest the inclusion of
other resources." The Toolkit includes the following links:
- "Home
- About All Resources
- Essential Documents
- Donor Policies & Resources
- Policy and Advocacy
- Program Design and Implementation
- Capacity Building & Training
- Research and Monitoring and Evaluation
- Focus Populations
- Technical Areas of Health
- Country Experiences
- Acronyms and Glossary"