We work with ministries of health to influence policies that promote the provision of quality and comprehensive post-GBV services at health care facilities and build skills of health workers to offer high-quality survivor-centered GBV services and timely referrals.

We support health facilities to integrate first-line support, appropriate GBV screening, treatment, psychosocial support, and referrals for non-health services. We also ensure multisectoral collaboration in GBV prevention and response.

We engage with communities to identify and challenge norms that perpetuate harmful socio-cultural practices, discrimination of survivors, and practices that hinder GBV case reporting.

We advocate for the implementation and adaptation of evidence-based gender transformative GBV prevention interventions by raising community awareness and promoting dialogue about GBV to increase demand for these services, reduce stigma against survivors and link them to care, and engage whole communities in GBV prevention.

We work at various levels (global, national, and sub-national) to steer conversations about the importance of men’s engagement in GBV prevention and response.

We work with stakeholders in formal and informal spaces to foster workplaces free of sexual exploitation and abuse.

We engage in GBV-related policy advocacy at national and global levels.

Jhpiego works with health workers at facility and community levels to overcome gender barriers in the workplace by empowering them and fostering supportive working environments.

We work with pre-service medical training schools to create policies that promote enrollment of female students and design courses that contribute to their advancement in the health sector.

We work with relevant stakeholders to foster dialogues on required mechanisms to support female students in medical, nursing, and paramedical schools by training clinical mentors at schools on gender-sensitive teaching methods and approaches.

We integrate gender and leadership sessions into pre-service education curricula for health workers to empower them and help them be more gender-sensitive to clients.

We work with health management teams to identify and strengthen opportunities to facilitate females’ entry into leadership positions at the facility and sub-national levels.

Using our gender transformative leadership toolkits, we undertake in-service training sessions to foster opportunities for female workforce entry into leadership and pursue career advancement and networking opportunities.

Although men play a key part in their own and their family’s health, they are often neglected when it comes to outreach and service delivery. At Jhpiego, we work with women and men together to question and challenge harmful gender norms.

We empower health workers to better engage with men and communicate with their partners to decide on family size and create birth plans, for example, and encourage health facilities to allow women to bring their partners into the delivery room if they choose to do so.

We facilitate couple and community dialogues to help break down gender-related barriers to positive health-seeking behavior and decision-making.

We adapt and bring to scale tested gender transformative interventions that promote male engagement and couples communication.

In many settings worldwide, gender inequalities and unequal power dynamics within the health care system, as well as negative attitudes of health care providers, impede respectful care for clients. Jhpiego helps health facilities take action to ensure that gender-sensitive, respectful services are provided to all clients.

Through sensitization, skills building and mentorship of health providers and facility managers, we help address gender-based discrimination. We also use our gender toolkits to sensitize health providers on gender as a socio-determinant of health and build their competencies on respectful care.

We also reinforce health services to be non-stigmatizing to adolescents, unmarried people, and nontraditional gender identities and sexual orientations.

We utilize our gender service  standards delivery toolkit to assess the health facilities’ readiness to offer client-centered and respectful care.

When women and girls are empowered to make decisions about their bodies and families, studies show they are healthier, happier and more prosperous. Jhpiego works at various levels to challenge inequalities that act as barriers to the best health outcomes for women and girls. Our projects provide young women and girls with life skills, comprehensive reproductive health education and advocating for responsive and non-stigmatizing reproductive health services.

We work closely with women rights and community level organizations to advocate for the design and implementation of initiatives that provide safe spaces for women and girls to amplify their voice, create a movement of change actors, and to use existing collectives to advocate for initiatives that enhance their small businesses and increase their income, resulting in socio-economic empowerment.