Boys and Men as Partners for Advancing Gender Equality

This toolkit highlights key actions you can take to be true allies with women-focused CSOs.

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When girls and women endure restricted access to resources such as land, energy, and water and sanitation, there are far-reaching implications. These 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 create an enabling environment for effective and secure access to resources.

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

Women Deliver contributed to the culminating report from a Wilton Park event co-hosted by WHO, UNFPA, and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, which highlights key actions the global community must take to make humanitarian action work for adolescent girls. Our biggest takeaway: adolescent girls and the local organizations that support them are resilient change-makers in humanitarian settings, and must be financed and engaged to unlock their full power and potential.

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

Women’s economic empowerment is a pre-requisite for inclusive and equitable economic growth. Every day, women demonstrate they can build informal and formal businesses out of very little capital, create networks to maximize limited resources, and shoulder disproportionate care-taking responsibilities. 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.

Infographic that outlines evidence around how boy and men are key partners in advancing gender equality, developed in partnership with Dove + MenCare and Promundo.

A part of the Advocacy Academy Webinar Series, originally aired 14 May 2019.