Gender Equity Promotion

Futures Group is committed to development approaches that transform gender inequities, as a means to achieve both better health outcomes and gender equity outcomes. We employ a dual strategy: leading initiatives on critical gender issues, while promoting true equitable treatment and access in all health activities. We work to improve gender equity worldwide through the following activities:

• Evaluating programs and policies that seek to decrease gender barriers, highlight replicable processes, and assess health and gender outcomes
• Mainstreaming gender-equitable approaches into policies, implementation, and action plans within public and private sectors
• Facilitating development of guidelines for USAID global and regional programs for responding to gender-based violence
• Promoting the involvement of both men and women in creating policies and policy environments that support gender equity
• Implementing participatory research, action, and advocacy projects to address gender-related barriers to HIV prevention, treatment, and care among most-at-risk populations
• Devising innovative advocacy approaches to realizing women’s rights in the context of deeply entrenched cultural issues, such as women’s property rights, early marriage, and female genital cutting
• Documenting outcomes and best practices of gender-equitable programs
• Creating state-of-the-art capacity-building and training processes to promote gender analysis and mainstreaming in programs and policies