Scaling Up Gender-Sensitive Humanitarian Action

When girls and women endure restricted access to resources such as land, energy, and water and sanitation, there are far-reaching implications. Such limitations can affect their health, education, housing, and livelihoods as well as the safety and sustainability of the environments in which they live. This brief explores seven solutions highlighting gender-responsive approaches that can accelerate much needed access to resources.

Infographic on how to accelerate access to resources such as land, clean energy, water, and sanitation for girls and women.

Infographic on why access to safe abortion is an urgent public need.

A practical toolkit for young people to advocate for improved adolescent health and well-being.

Women’s full participation in the economy drives better performing and more resilient businesses as well as supports economic growth and wider development goals.  Women succeed in spite of laws, policies, social norms, and institutions that hold them back. This policy brief examines opportunities to create an enabling environment for women to thrive economically. 

Infographic on how to boost women’s economic empowerment.

Under the new sustainable development agenda, development actors from across the spectrum have an opportunity to abandon traditionally siloed approaches and work together to positively impact girls’ and women’s lives through financial investment and strengthened multi-sector partnerships that deliver on an integrated agenda. This policy brief identifies interventions that can propel sustainable progress.

Infographic on how to build sustainable financing and partnerships for girls and women.

A booklet detailing the investment case for girls and women.

Gestational Diabetes (GDM) infographic.