Women and adolescent girls are at the center of our work, on issues ranging from sexual and reproductive health and rights, including family planning; HIV; maternal health; and education.

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Highlights of our work related to women and adolescents

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Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, including Family Planning

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• Human rights-based family planning;
• Social accountability programming and family planning;
• Retrospective assessment of an intervention for adolescents. ​

HIV

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www.whatworksforwomen.org, with publications stemming from that work on:

• strengthening the enabling environment for women and girls;
• what HIV interventions work for adolescent girls;
•  gender considerations along the HIV treatment cascade; and
• creating a culture of evidence. 

WWA contributed to the first gender equality information note for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and to a checklist on family planning for girls for ​​​​​Girl Effect. 


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​In collaboration with other authors, more recent work assesses how UNDP has performed in gender transformative approaches with grants from the Global Fund. Of particular note is the case study on HIV in Cuba, which incorporated an approach to gender beyond the binary.

Female Genital Mutilation 

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​Evaluating the effectiveness of interventions, using WWA’s methodology to assess strength of evidence. 

Gender Equality

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Towards a radical transformation: Promoting gender equality when children start school.
MaryFaith Mount-Cors, Jill Gay, Rokhaya Diop. 2020. Current Issues in Comparative Education, vol. 22, no. 1. 
The authors explore how gender equality can be addressed within schools and communities in LMICs at the start of primary school, offering promising strategies to make early grade education efforts more gender transformative.