This report reviews the gender implications of the activities of the USAID/East Africa Regional Economic Growth and Integration program, with particular reference to the Feed the Future and climate change initiatives. In East Africa, there is a need to incorporate gender dimensions into local, national, and regional climate change programs and discussions. It is commonly recognized that the poor and marginalized will experience the impacts of climate change most acutely and that they have the least capacity to adapt, and that women and girls make up a disproportionate number of the poor or marginalized.

This gender assessment presents a synthesis of the performance assessment findings for IEHA agricultural investments in sub-Saharan Africa and their ability to address gender constraints and increase the impact of agricultural programs for women, as well as men. It captures best practices and lessons learned and offers evidence-based recommendations on gender integration in order to maximize future agricultural investments toward the goals of rural poverty reduction and food security. Largely funded by AFR/SD and EGAT/AG, it represents a broader collaboration of offices including EGAT/ESP and EGAT/WID and organizations including the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

This is a presentation on the "Through Our Eyes" project, which uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence, gender norms, HIV/AIDS, harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. Project sites include Liberia, Rwanda, southern Sudan, Uganda, and Thailand.

This manual has been designed to guide trainers in conducting workshops for religious leaders and women leaders of faith on GBV and HIV. It was created specifically for heads of religious organizations, such as inter-religious councils and women's religious organizations. While this material was piloted with leaders, it can be adapted to meet the specific priorities and needs of participants, such as other organization members. The overall objectives of the training are to raise the awareness of religious leaders and women leaders of faith about GBV as it relates to HIV and to motivate them to address the issues in their own organizations or communities.

This one-pager offers an introduction to the "Through Our Eyes" project, which uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence, gender norms, HIV/AIDS, harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings (Liberia, Rwanda, southern Sudan, Uganda, and Thailand). The one-pager shares the project's achievements and testimonials from video team members.

This report reviews the gender implications of the activities of the USAID/East Africa Regional Economic Growth and Integration program, with particular reference to the Feed the Future and climate change initiatives. In East Africa, there is a need to incorporate gender dimensions into local, national, and regional climate change programs and discussions. It is commonly recognized that the poor and marginalized will experience the impacts of climate change most acutely and that they have the least capacity to adapt, and that women and girls make up a disproportionate number of the poor or marginalized.

The Safe Schools Program was a five-year initiative (2003-2008) funded by the USAID Office of Women in Development and implemented by DevTech Systems, Inc. The goal of Safe Schools was to reduce school-related gender-based violence in selected schools in Ghana and Malawi to support the longer-term goal of improving educational outcomes and reducing negative health outcomes for schoolchildren. Changes in student and teacher knowledge, attitudes, and practices were used to measure progress toward reducing gender violence. Safe Schools was one of the first programs to systematically use a gender approach to identify the relationship between the traditional definition of gender roles and the types of abuse and violence that both girls and boys suffer from and perpetrate in schools.

Through Our Eyes is implemented by American Refugee Committee and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence (GBV), harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. Progress was made on all three project objectives this quarter. Key activities during this quarter included representation at the International AIDS Conference, completion of the Through Our Eyes desk review, and planning for the final evaluation and GBV advocacy video.

The purpose of the workshop was to bring together representatives from the Through Our Eyes (TOE) teams (American Refugee Committee staff and partner agency representatives) from each of five country sites. The workshop included sessions focused on sharing of experiences, sensitivities for community media programming, community media innovations and integration, promoting partnerships, formal development of a "Global Network" of community media specialists, and sustainability of programming.

Through Our Eyes (TOE) is implemented by American Refugee Committee and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence, harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. Progress was made on all three project objectives this quarter. Key activities included presentations on TOE at the Global Health Council Conference and the Annual Meeting of the Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises, progress on the TOE toolkit, and near finalization of the TOE desk review.

Through Our Eyes is implemented by the American Refugee Committee International and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence, harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. Progress was made on all three project objectives this quarter. Key activities included recruitment of an intern, review and revision of the desk review, and training and monitoring visits to southern Sudan, Uganda, and Thailand.

Through Our Eyes is implemented by American Refugee Committee-International and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence, harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. In the 9th quarter, progress was made on all three project objectives. Key activities included an initial two-week community video training in Thailand in October, planning for an upcoming follow-up training in Uganda, and completion of baseline assessment activities in all five countries.

This gender assessment is divided into four parts:

1. description of the status and situations of women and girls in Liberia;
2. what the Government of Liberia, civil society, international NGOs, and donors are doing for and with women and girls, and how they are contributing to gender equality;
3. review of USAID's sector focuses, as reflected in draft strategy and selective information provided by USAID's teams to flag gender-related issues for the strategy and activities both pitfalls and opportunities;
4. recommendation(s) for how USAID might direct resources in Liberia toward addressing the needs of women and girls.

The Safe Schools Program was a five-year initiative (2003-2008) funded by the USAID Office of Women in Development and implemented by DevTech Systems, Inc. The goal of Safe Schools was to reduce school-related gender-based violence in selected schools in Ghana and Malawi to support the longer-term goal of improving educational outcomes and reducing negative health outcomes for schoolchildren. Changes in student and teacher knowledge, attitudes, and practices were used to measure progress toward reducing gender violence. Safe Schools was one of the first programs to systematically use a gender approach to identify the relationship between the traditional definition of gender roles and the types of abuse and violence that both girls and boys suffer from and perpetrate in schools.

This Gender Assessment of the USAID/Malawi portfolio is intended to assist the mission in integrating gender into program planning, project design, procurement, implementation, reporting, and monitoring and evaluation. It discusses how the Government of Malawi (GOM) is addressing gender issues through its Revised National Gender Policy and ways that USAID can support the GOM in achieving its goals.

In response to the lack of knowledge about the scope and magnitude of trafficking in persons in Namibia, an assessment was initiated by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Water, and Forestry and with the support of USAID/Namibia. The purpose of this assessment was to (a) collect available information on the scope of trafficking in persons in targeted areas of Namibia, (b) review counter-trafficking initiatives by government and civil society, and (c) outline gaps and make recommendations concerning future programming and research needs.

Through Our Eyes is implemented by American Refugee Committee and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence (GBV), harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. Progress was made on all three project objectives this quarter. Key activities during this quarter included representation at the International AIDS Conference, completion of the Through Our Eyes desk review, and planning for the final evaluation and GBV advocacy video.

The purpose of the workshop was to bring together representatives from the Through Our Eyes (TOE) teams (American Refugee Committee staff and partner agency representatives) from each of five country sites. The workshop included sessions focused on sharing of experiences, sensitivities for community media programming, community media innovations and integration, promoting partnerships, formal development of a "Global Network" of community media specialists, and sustainability of programming.

Through Our Eyes (TOE) is implemented by American Refugee Committee and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence, harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. Progress was made on all three project objectives this quarter. Key activities included presentations on TOE at the Global Health Council Conference and the Annual Meeting of the Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises, progress on the TOE toolkit, and near finalization of the TOE desk review.

Through Our Eyes is implemented by the American Refugee Committee International and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence, harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. Progress was made on all three project objectives this quarter. Key activities included recruitment of an intern, review and revision of the desk review, and training and monitoring visits to southern Sudan, Uganda, and Thailand.

Through Our Eyes is implemented by American Refugee Committee-International and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence, harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. In the 9th quarter, progress was made on all three project objectives. Key activities included an initial two-week community video training in Thailand in October, planning for an upcoming follow-up training in Uganda, and completion of baseline assessment activities in all five countries.

As part of the new strategy preparation, USAID/Senegal requested assistance with a gender assessment of its programs. The assessment team made site visits to multiple cities and towns in Senegal, which offered examples of key gender concerns, including gender disparities in access to education, unequal allocation of land and other resources, and gender-based violence, as well as examples of USAID/Senegal programming to address these problems. In addition to its analysis of gender issues and USAID activities in Senegal, the team provided the Mission with recommendations to help it continue to design and implement programs to overcome critical gender disparities in the country.

Through Our Eyes is implemented by American Refugee Committee and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence (GBV), harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. Progress was made on all three project objectives this quarter. Key activities during this quarter included representation at the International AIDS Conference, completion of the Through Our Eyes desk review, and planning for the final evaluation and GBV advocacy video.

This gender assessment describes USAID-funded programs in Southern Sudan and the degree to which they succeed in integrating gender. The purpose of the assessment is to identify key gender issues and gender constraints that need to be addressed in USAID/Sudan's programs and to make recommendations on how USAID can achieve greater gender integration and equality outcomes in its programs. In addition, the assessment provides preliminary guidance on incorporating gender into the Mission Strategic Plan and provides help in developing a Gender Action Plan that will inform that strategy.

The purpose of the workshop was to bring together representatives from the Through Our Eyes (TOE) teams (American Refugee Committee staff and partner agency representatives) from each of five country sites. The workshop included sessions focused on sharing of experiences, sensitivities for community media programming, community media innovations and integration, promoting partnerships, formal development of a "Global Network" of community media specialists, and sustainability of programming.

Through Our Eyes (TOE) is implemented by American Refugee Committee and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence, harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. Progress was made on all three project objectives this quarter. Key activities included presentations on TOE at the Global Health Council Conference and the Annual Meeting of the Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises, progress on the TOE toolkit, and near finalization of the TOE desk review.

Through Our Eyes is implemented by the American Refugee Committee International and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence, harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. Progress was made on all three project objectives this quarter. Key activities included recruitment of an intern, review and revision of the desk review, and training and monitoring visits to southern Sudan, Uganda, and Thailand.

Through Our Eyes is implemented by American Refugee Committee-International and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence, harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. In the 9th quarter, progress was made on all three project objectives. Key activities included an initial two-week community video training in Thailand in October, planning for an upcoming follow-up training in Uganda, and completion of baseline assessment activities in all five countries.

This is a collection of materials from a GATE workshop on integrating gender into agricultural value chains. The workshop was held in Arusha, Tanzania in 2008. It aimed to enable participants to:

• become familiar with gender and value chain analysis,
• understand key gender concepts,
• understand the process of gender analysis in value chain development, 
• learn to apply gender analysis to address gender-based constraints in value chain development activities.

Through Our Eyes is implemented by American Refugee Committee and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence (GBV), harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. Progress was made on all three project objectives this quarter. Key activities during this quarter included representation at the International AIDS Conference, completion of the Through Our Eyes desk review, and planning for the final evaluation and GBV advocacy video.

The purpose of the workshop was to bring together representatives from the Through Our Eyes (TOE) teams (American Refugee Committee staff and partner agency representatives) from each of five country sites. The workshop included sessions focused on sharing of experiences, sensitivities for community media programming, community media innovations and integration, promoting partnerships, formal development of a "Global Network" of community media specialists, and sustainability of programming.

Through Our Eyes (TOE) is implemented by American Refugee Committee and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence, harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. Progress was made on all three project objectives this quarter. Key activities included presentations on TOE at the Global Health Council Conference and the Annual Meeting of the Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises, progress on the TOE toolkit, and near finalization of the TOE desk review.

Through Our Eyes is implemented by the American Refugee Committee International and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence, harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. Progress was made on all three project objectives this quarter. Key activities included recruitment of an intern, review and revision of the desk review, and training and monitoring visits to southern Sudan, Uganda, and Thailand.

Through Our Eyes is implemented by American Refugee Committee-International and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence, harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. In the 9th quarter, progress was made on all three project objectives. Key activities included an initial two-week community video training in Thailand in October, planning for an upcoming follow-up training in Uganda, and completion of baseline assessment activities in all five countries.

This evaluation covers U.S. Government (USG) activities in Zambia relating to gender-based violence (GBV). Its purpose is to:

1. assess the USAID ASAZA (A Safer Zambia) program and the CDC's CSA (Child Sexual Abuse) centers performance in accomplishing the terms and objectives of their respective agreements; and
2. utilize the information to assist USG/Zambia in formulating ideas regarding future GBV activities.

The purpose of this evaluation is to assess the effectiveness and design of ASGPs support for women-focused civil society organizations. This includes examining whether and how ASGP provided opportunities for gender equality and empowerment and reduced gender-related constraints through capacity-building, the development of plans and strategies, mechanisms and channels for women to access information and to network, and the participation of women in development as implementers and change agents. The evaluation provides specific recommendations that can contribute to future USAID program designs to promote womens empowerment and gender equality in Afghanistan through support to women-led and women-focused civil society organizations.

Long-excluded from education, healthcare, employment, and participation in public life, Afghan women continue to suffer from isolation, illiteracy, poor health and extreme poverty. The U.S. Government is committed to removing constraints on women's potential because their contributions to Afghan society are essential.

The purpose of this Short-Term Technical Assistance and Training Task Order assignment was to visit select USAID programs in Afghanistan supported by the FY08 Women's Earmark and collect data on the activities. The consultant team met women beneficiaries at each site, in addition to the international (prime) and national (usually sub) implementing partners. Sectors reviewed included agriculture, alternative development, democracy and governance, microfinance, and education. This document reports the team's findings.

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is an effort to create a financial value for the carbon stored in forests, offering incentives for developing countries to reduce emissions from forests and invest in low-carbon paths to sustainable development; REDD+ includes conservation, sustainable forest management, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks. This assessment found that women have not been systematically identified as stakeholders in REDD+ initiatives and thus are not involved in related discussions and activities. Additionally, gender issues have not been identified by key actors as having any relevance to the sector.

Every year throughout South and Southeast Asia, individuals fall victim to both sex and labor trafficking both within their countries and after crossing international borders. To combat this scourge, since 2000 USAID has supported more than 30 anti-trafficking programs in eight countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. USAID has helped to bring human trafficking to the attention of all levels of society in South and Southeast Asia, building political will and public awareness, and helping governments, communities, and local NGOs take action against traffickers and assist trafficking victims.

This gender assessment analyzes the impact of USAID/Bangladesh programs and projects on gender relations. It offers suggestions for mainstreaming gender and provides actionable recommendations that can be implemented in the short, medium, and long-term. This study also updates USAID/Bangladesh's gender action plan and provides background for a new Mission strategy for 2011-2015.

This gender assessment analyzes USAID/Cambodia's activities and provides recommendations for better gender integration in Mission programming.

This USAID/CAR gender assessment covers the five Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. It reviews national policies on gender and conditions of gender inequality, USAID processes related to gender integration, and sectoral gender issues affecting USAID projects and programs. It also offers recommendations relevant to current and future USAID programming in the five countries and the CAR region overall.

USAID/India has decided to mainstream gender into its strategy as a means of addressing gender inequalities throughout its programs. This gender assessment was conducted to provide the Mission with guidance on how best to set this process in motion.

From August 15-31, 2005, a four-person team conducted a gender needs assessment for the USAID-funded Environmental Services Program (ESP) in Indonesia. The objectives of the assessment were twofold: to produce recommendations to strengthen the three core ESP components from a gender perspective and to begin building staff capacity in gender mainstreaming by conducting the needs assessment with the participation of ESP staff and partners.

This USAID/CAR gender assessment covers the five Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. It reviews national policies on gender and conditions of gender inequality, USAID processes related to gender integration, and sectoral gender issues affecting USAID projects and programs. It also offers recommendations relevant to current and future USAID programming in the five countries and the CAR region overall.

This USAID/CAR gender assessment covers the five Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. It reviews national policies on gender and conditions of gender inequality, USAID processes related to gender integration, and sectoral gender issues affecting USAID projects and programs. It also offers recommendations relevant to current and future USAID programming in the five countries and the CAR region overall.

This gender and inclusion assessment analyzes the impact of gender, caste, and ethnic relations on development outcomes and makes recommendations for program sustainability in the context of Nepal's recovery from the Maoist insurgency. It offers recommendations for more effectively integrating concerns of gender equity and social inclusion (GESI). It presents an overview of exclusion issues and examines aspects of USAID/Nepal's portfolio, focusing mainly on programs with new solicitations and strategies for integrating GESI within the Mission.

This USAID/CAR gender assessment covers the five Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. It reviews national policies on gender and conditions of gender inequality, USAID processes related to gender integration, and sectoral gender issues affecting USAID projects and programs. It also offers recommendations relevant to current and future USAID programming in the five countries and the CAR region overall.

Through Our Eyes is implemented by American Refugee Committee and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence (GBV), harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. Progress was made on all three project objectives this quarter. Key activities during this quarter included representation at the International AIDS Conference, completion of the Through Our Eyes desk review, and planning for the final evaluation and GBV advocacy video.

The purpose of the workshop was to bring together representatives from the Through Our Eyes (TOE) teams (American Refugee Committee staff and partner agency representatives) from each of five country sites. The workshop included sessions focused on sharing of experiences, sensitivities for community media programming, community media innovations and integration, promoting partnerships, formal development of a "Global Network" of community media specialists, and sustainability of programming.

Through Our Eyes (TOE) is implemented by American Refugee Committee and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence, harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. Progress was made on all three project objectives this quarter. Key activities included presentations on TOE at the Global Health Council Conference and the Annual Meeting of the Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises, progress on the TOE toolkit, and near finalization of the TOE desk review.

Through Our Eyes is implemented by the American Refugee Committee International and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence, harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. Progress was made on all three project objectives this quarter. Key activities included recruitment of an intern, review and revision of the desk review, and training and monitoring visits to southern Sudan, Uganda, and Thailand.

Through Our Eyes is implemented by American Refugee Committee-International and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence, harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. In the 9th quarter, progress was made on all three project objectives. Key activities included an initial two-week community video training in Thailand in October, planning for an upcoming follow-up training in Uganda, and completion of baseline assessment activities in all five countries.

This USAID/CAR gender assessment covers the five Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. It reviews national policies on gender and conditions of gender inequality, USAID processes related to gender integration, and sectoral gender issues affecting USAID projects and programs. It also offers recommendations relevant to current and future USAID programming in the five countries and the CAR region overall.

This USAID/CAR gender assessment covers the five Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. It reviews national policies on gender and conditions of gender inequality, USAID processes related to gender integration, and sectoral gender issues affecting USAID projects and programs. It also offers recommendations relevant to current and future USAID programming in the five countries and the CAR region overall.

This gender assessment identifies key gender issues and gender constraints that need to be addressed in the USAID/Albania Strategic Plan as part of the strategy development process and makes recommendations as to how the Mission can achieve greater gender integration in its programs.

This report measures Albania's compliance with its international commitments under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) which Albania ratified in 1994. It seeks to identify laws and practices where Albania does and does not comply with CEDAW.

This report assesses and analyzes gender issues in Armenia and provides recommendations to assist the Mission in integrating gender issues into its strategic thinking.

There is an increasing recognition throughout the world that it is not only women and children who fall victim to traffickers. Men migrate in large numbers and more and more studies indicate that many of these men are being exploited to a degree which was heretofore unrecognized. USAID commissioned this paper to shed light on the nature and extent of trafficking of men in the Europe and Eurasia region.

This is the executive summary of the evaluation framework for USAID-funded trafficking in persons (TIP) prevention and victim protection programs. The purpose of the report is to provide concrete guidance on how to evaluate anti-TIP programs to those who are designing and implementing such programs. It is intended to complement a number of previous reviews of counter-trafficking programs and proposals for indicators by providing a framework for evaluating anti-TIP programs typically implemented with USAID funding.

Although there is near universal agreement about the fact that we must improve the impact evaluation of anti-TIP programs in order to enhance understanding of what works and what does not, limited information is available on how to do this. The purpose of this report, therefore, is to provide concrete guidance on how to evaluate anti-TIP programs to those who are designing and implementing such programs. It is intended to complement a number of previous reviews of counter-trafficking programs and proposals for indicators by providing a framework for evaluating anti-TIP programs typically implemented with USAID funding.

This toolkit is one of a series of publications sponsored by the Social Transition Team in the Bureau for Europe and Eurasia on social transition issues in the region. Building on earlier USAID reports on domestic violence in the E&E region, it offers guidance to USAID personnel and implementing partners. The toolkit suggests ways to integrate anti-violence activities into various sectors of USAID work and provides a number of illustrations of the form that such activities could take.

This toolkit is one of a series of publications sponsored by the Social Transition Team in the Bureau for Europe and Eurasia on social transition issues in the region. Building on earlier USAID reports on domestic violence in the E&E region, it offers guidance to USAID personnel and implementing partners. The toolkit suggests ways to integrate anti-violence activities into various sectors of USAID work and provides a number of illustrations of the form that such activities could take.

The primary purpose of this gender assessment is to assist USAID/Georgia in integrating gender issues into its strategic thinking, assistance objective (AO) results framework, and performance monitoring plan (PMP). The assessment process involved:

1. analyzing the broad institutional structures and socio-economic and cultural trends in Georgia that determine the gender roles and relationships and gender-based constrains in the country;
2. providing suggestions and highlighting key areas in which the Mission AO frameworks and PMP could better respond to the different roles and status of men and women and potential impact of USAID programming on these roles.

This Macedonia gender assessment was undertaken for two purposes:

1. to identify key gender issues and gender constraints that need to be addressed in the FY 2011-2015 Serbia Country Strategic Plan as part of the strategy development process, and
2. to make recommendations as to how USAID/Serbia can achieve greater gender integration in its programs.

This Gender Assessment aims to identify significant sector-specific gender issues that are relevant across the USAID/Moldova portfolio and serve as the baseline against which to measure progress in achieving gender equality in Moldova. The assessment provides practical recommendations on how to ensure gender integration throughout project planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation cycles. Its findings will be used to inform the design of the new strategic plan and new projects.

USAID/Serbia & Montenegro is amending its current Country Strategic Plans for both countries, which cover the period FY 2006 through FY 2010. The purpose of this gender assessment is (1) to identify key gender issues and gender constraints that need to be addressed in the amended Montenegro Country Strategic Plan as part of the strategy development process, and (2) to make recommendations as to how USAID/Montenegro can achieve greater gender integration in its programs.

USAID/Serbia & Montenegro is amending its current Country Strategic Plans for both countries, which cover the period FY 2006 through FY 2010. The purpose of this gender assessment is (1) to identify key gender issues and gender constraints that need to be addressed in the amended Serbia Country Strategic Plan as part of the strategy development process, and (2) to make recommendations as to how USAID/Serbia can achieve greater gender integration in its programs.

This report assesses the gender dimensions of USAID/Barbados and Eastern Caribbean's activities and provides recommendations for mainstreaming gender in Mission policies, procedures, and activities.

This assessment of the USAID/Dominican Republic portfolio identifies key gender concerns in each sector, assesses the extent to which the Mission programs address these concerns, and provide recommendations for gender integration in the future

This document assesses the integration of gender in USAID/El Salvador programs as required for the development of the new Country Strategy. The purpose of the assessment was to identify key gender issues and constraints in Mission programs and provide guidance on how to achieve effective gender integration in the new portfolio. It found a general awareness in the Mission of the basic USAID requirements for attention to gender considerations; however, with a few exceptions, projects did not take account of gender relations in their activities or results.

This document reports on activities undertaken during the third quarter of the Empowering Women's Leadership in Conflict Resolution (referred to as EMA, by its acronym in Spanish) project. Accomplishments included: 1) eight women trained and certified as mediators of land conflicts; 2) conflict mediation handbook drafted by project members; 3) community facilitators trained on alternative dispute resolution; 4) public awareness campaign on women's agrarian rights launched, and 5) civil society organizations and governmental actors worked together to improve women's access to land and agrarian rights.

This article is about the work of the USAID Women's Legal Rights (WLR) project in Guatemala. From 2002 to 2006, WLR worked on several fronts to advance the rights of women in Guatemala. It provided extensive training in how to bring a gender perspective to the law; mediators were taught, for example, that domestic violence should be prosecuted, not negotiated. WLR also helped to develop and implement a diploma and then a full-fledged master's program in women's rights, gender, and access to justice.

This document reports on the first quarter activities of the WE-LEAD program, launched to build the leadership capacity of women's groups in Haiti and enable them to insert their priorities into the country's current post-earthquake reconstruction and development process. Heartland Alliance, in close collaboration with KOFAVIV and with technical assistance from MADRE, seeks to support this grassroots women's movement, expand its scope, and build bridges between a range of groups specializing in different aspects of women's empowerment.

This gender assessment serves as background for USAID/Panama's new five-year country strategy. It provides an overview of key gender issues and constraints in USAID/Panama's new program areas and general background on the status of women and gender in Panama. In addition, it offers recommendations for a Mission gender plan of action as guidance for the integration of gender considerations into the design, procurement, and implementation of new Mission activities.

Este documento recopila las experiencias de los hombres y de las mujeres en la produccin de artesanas, truchas y caf. Cada experiencia resume los datos recabados a travs de entrevistas con las mujeres, los hombres, los ejecutores y los empresarios y empresarias participantes en estas tres cadenas. El informe busca rescatar las ventajas y las desventajas que enfrentan las mujeres en su exitosa insercin en las cadenas productivas. / This document recounts the experiences of men and women in the production of crafts, trout and coffee. Each experience summarizes data obtained through interviews with the men, women, practitioners and business owners participating in these three economic activities. This paper seeks to recount the advantages and disadvantages that women faced in their successful participation in these economic activities.

This review identifies communication approaches and program strategies utilized in crisis-affected settings to prevent gender-based violence (GBV) and harmful traditional practices (HTP) and promote positive gender norms. From these, it then identifies lessons learned and "promising practices" so as to:

1. strengthen the ARC/C4C Through Our Eyes participatory communication initiative currently working with local teams in Liberia, Rwanda, southern Sudan, Uganda, and Thailand to engage community members in dialogue about sensitive topics including GBV, HTP, and related issues;
2. inform the field of social and behavior change in crisis-affected settings.

This fact sheet offers several definitions of disability, shares information on USAID's disability work, and provides basic information on the prevalence of disability worldwide as well as disability as it relates to poverty and international development. 

This document serves as a "how to" guide on including women and men with disabilities into USAID's gender assessments and analyses. It provides the following information:

• a brief overview of why it is important to include disability in both activity analysis and country-level gender assessments;
• issues specific to disability that one may need to consider while conducting an assessment;
• suggested questions to include during an assessment following a frequently used gender assessment framework, as well as questions by sector/thematic area; and,
• additional resources for information on disability.

This guide is designed to help USAID education officers better incorporate gender issues into solicitations and technical evaluations. It is not, however, an exhaustive presentation of the myriad gender issues that may impact a given project. The guide is divided into three sections:

1. USAID programming requirements for integrating gender into solicitations,
2. guidelines for developing solicitations, and
3. guidelines for reviewing proposals/applications.

This guide is based on Promoting Gender Equitable Opportunities in Agricultural Value Chains: A Handbook, which details a phased process for integrating gender into agricultural value chains. Prepared under WID's Greater Access to Trade Expansion (GATE) project, the handbook offers a straightforward methodology that guides practitioners through the steps needed to address the different types of gender issues that are embedded in how value chains work. This reference guide highlights the Integrating Gender into Agricultural Value Chains (INGIA-VC) process and its analytical framework, which is described in greater detail in the handbook.

Climate change impacts men and women differently due to differences in their traditional roles, societal expectations, and livelihoods. Women, who make up the majority of the developing world's 1.4 billion poor, generally have lower incomes, less access to credit and decision-making authority, and limited control over resources, increasing their vulnerability to many climate impacts. It is crucial to understand these distinctions in order to successfully integrate climate change into development efforts.

Despite the important role women play in driving development, women living in poor countries are likely to bear a disproportionate burden in an economic crisis. Since women will likely suffer most during the ongoing economic crisis, there is a great need for USAID and other donors to help developing countries expand economic opportunities for women. Furthermore, women can play a major role in rebuilding the world economy.

Women are responsible for half of the world's food production, and in most developing countries they produce between 60 and 80 percent of the food. Yet, women continue to be regarded as home producers or assistants on the farm, and not as farmers and economic agents on their own merit. Empowering women farmers is vital to lifting rural communities out of poverty, especially as many developing nations face economic crisis, food insecurity, HIV/AIDS, environmental degradation, and increasing urbanization.

This is the executive summary of the evaluation framework for USAID-funded trafficking in persons (TIP) prevention and victim protection programs. The purpose of the report is to provide concrete guidance on how to evaluate anti-TIP programs to those who are designing and implementing such programs. It is intended to complement a number of previous reviews of counter-trafficking programs and proposals for indicators by providing a framework for evaluating anti-TIP programs typically implemented with USAID funding.

Although there is near universal agreement about the fact that we must improve the impact evaluation of anti-TIP programs in order to enhance understanding of what works and what does not, limited information is available on how to do this. The purpose of this report, therefore, is to provide concrete guidance on how to evaluate anti-TIP programs to those who are designing and implementing such programs. It is intended to complement a number of previous reviews of counter-trafficking programs and proposals for indicators by providing a framework for evaluating anti-TIP programs typically implemented with USAID funding.

This manual has been designed to guide trainers in conducting workshops for religious leaders and women leaders of faith on GBV and HIV. It was created specifically for heads of religious organizations, such as inter-religious councils and women's religious organizations. While this material was piloted with leaders, it can be adapted to meet the specific priorities and needs of participants, such as other organization members. The overall objectives of the training are to raise the awareness of religious leaders and women leaders of faith about GBV as it relates to HIV and to motivate them to address the issues in their own organizations or communities.

A chart designed by the EQUATE project that depicts the framework for gender equality in education.

The Safe Schools Program was a five-year initiative (2003-2008) funded by the USAID Office of Women in Development and implemented by DevTech Systems, Inc. The goal of Safe Schools was to reduce school-related gender-based violence in selected schools in Ghana and Malawi to support the longer-term goal of improving educational outcomes and reducing negative health outcomes for schoolchildren. Changes in student and teacher knowledge, attitudes, and practices were used to measure progress toward reducing gender violence. Safe Schools was one of the first programs to systematically use a gender approach to identify the relationship between the traditional definition of gender roles and the types of abuse and violence that both girls and boys suffer from and perpetrate in schools.

This report analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the process of gender integration in Egypt under the Bridge Strategy and provides a preliminary presentation of evidence for the importance of addressing gender inequality in Cairo Initiative program areas.

USAID/Egypt undertook a gender assessment as part of its strategic review of its support to the Government of Egypt to control the spread of Avian Influenza (AI) in poultry and avoid human infection. The analysis focuses on understanding the underlying gender issues related to AI, especially in terms of food security, child malnutrition, poverty, and human infection. It also provides recommendations to take account of gender in future AI-related activities.

The USAID-funded Integrated Reproductive Health Services Project conducts community-level training to increase knowledge of and change attitudes towards specific health practices, such as female genital cutting (FGC). Community training programs include male and female religious leaders, literacy facilitators, health and community outreach workers, and agricultural extension workers. The trainings empower individuals to function as agents of change and ensure that community members hear consistent health messages from various sources.

The assessment analyzed each of the four components under the Sustainable Achievement of Business Expansion and Quality (SABEQ) project in Jordan to identify opportunities to integrate gender systemically. Through the analysis, it became apparent that achievement of SABEQ's principal goals is strongly linked to the extent to which women are empowered to participate in the economy and contribute to economic growth. As such, the assessment was able to highlight opportunities for SABEQ to integrate gender throughout project activities as a means of promoting women's entry into the economy as labor entrants and business owners.