The Center for Gender Equity has gained substantial expertise in a variety of content areas. Following are examples:
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| The Gender Center designs and implements a variety of activities globally to support girls’ and women’s education including, addressing barriers to girls’ access to quality education; improving girls’ academic achievement in primary and secondary school and improving the completion rates of girls at the primary and secondary level. In partnership with community-based organizations, the Gender Center accomplishes these goals through implementation of programs that support a wide range of needs, including basic literacy and numeracy of young women and girls, leadership and mentoring, curriculum design, school planning, parental involvement to ensure program sustainability, gender-sensitive teacher training, girl-friendly school construction and school support in the form of scholarships and supplies. More… | ||
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 | The Gender Center integrates awareness-building regarding gender-based violence and harassment into many of its education projects. This encompasses but is not limited to physical, sexual, and psychological violence occurring in the family and community, including battery; sexual abuse of female children; dowry-related violence; marital rape; violence related to exploitation; and sexual intimidation, bullying and harassment at school, work, and elsewhere. FHI 360 also addresses these issues in its Guide to Mentoring and Life Skills, which is used as a resource by mentors who coach girls in project activities. More…
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 | The Gender Center has been engaged in addressing human trafficking through several of its projects over the last decade. Human trafficking is one the greatest human rights violations of our time, and in order to address this complex socio-political and economic issue, NGOs, governments, and ordinary citizens must cooperate with each other across countries. Through its programs, the Gender Center has addressed human trafficking in its activities through awareness-building efforts, improving the implementation of laws to protect women and children from trafficking, developing and maintaining informational resource forums such as humantrafficking.org. More…
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 | The Gender Center has long recognized the importance of providing women and girls with the skills and confidence to become leaders in their schools and communities. In societies where girls are discouraged or forbidden from filling public leadership roles, our projects have bucked societal and cultural norms by providing excellent leadership training to girls, who have seized leadership opportunities with tremendous zeal and achieved remarkable success. Similarly, we have linked women’s leadership with the promotion of girls’ education, including empowering mothers to become more engaged in school decision-making and planning that affects their daughters; increasing women’s knowledge of their rights and ability to advocate on behalf of girls’ education; and encouraging women to become formal role models and leaders to help girls succeed in school, the workforce, and in life. More… | ||
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 | Economic growth is a pathway out of poverty. The Gender Center’s programs expand economic activity, spark new and sustainable employment, and provide vulnerable populations, including women, and disadvantaged youth with economic and financial opportunities. Through our numerous programs, we have implemented a number of women’s and girls’ economic empowerment programs throughout Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Our economic empowerment programs range from workforce training and development for out of school youth, to providing microcredit grants to women-owned micro-enterprises, to organizing entrepreneurial skills training for women and youth. More…
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| The Center for Gender Equity brings a unique and valuable approach to the evaluation of projects and programs. As practitioners within the development field, we have an extraordinary range of technical, programmatic and implementation expertise – resulting in a very comprehensive, methodologically robust, yet practical approach to evaluations. We understand the importance of context and capturing the qualitative aspects of program outcomes and impacts. More…
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