Gender

Integrating the PEPFAR Technical Considerations into Health Services to Improve the Clinical Management of Children and Adolescents Who Have Experienced Sexual Violence in Kenya:Final Report

david — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:05:30 +0000

Author's name:

IntraHealth International: CapacityPlus and FUNZO Kenya Projects

August 2015 (All day)

Integrating the PEPFAR Technical Considerations into Health Services to Improve the Clinical Management of Children and Adolescents Who Have Experienced Sexual Violence in Kenya:Final Report

USAID's Office of HIV/AIDS Gender Technical Working Group invited CapacityPlus to apply its expertise in health worker training and performance support to improve health system response to children and adolescents who have experienced sexual violence in Kenya. In collaboration with USAID’s FUNZOKenya health worker training project and its APHIAplus Kamili service delivery project, CapacityPlus supported the Ministry of Health’s Reproductive and Maternal Health Services Unit in revising the national sexual and gender-based violence curriculum to reflect recent changes in national policy guidelines. This final report documents achievements and lessons learned from the activity and includes the findings from a desk review and training needs assessment that informed the development of the new training module and supplemental training and performance support materials.

Advancing Gender Equality in Health Systems

david — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:15:14 +0000

Author's name:

Rachel Deussom, Constance Newman, Alfredo Fort, Laura Hurley, and Alex Collins

September 2015 (All day)

CapacityPlus Legacy Series #7

CapacityPlus developed learning tools to address the challenges of gender inequalities and discrimination in the health workforce and health professional education systems and promote gender-transformative principles in advocacy, policy-making, and program
implementation.

Gender Discrimination and Health Workforce Development: An Advocacy Tool

david — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 17:26:43 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

September 2015 (All day)

Gender Discrimination and Health Workforce Development: An Advocacy Tool

Health professional education systems play a pivotal role in developing competent, motivated health workers who are vital to the delivery of high-quality family planning, maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, and other essential health services. This online tool outlines recommended combinations of gender transformative interventions to counter various forms of gender discrimination in learning environments, and provides advocacy strategies for stakeholders to develop plans to create, implement, and enforce conducive environments, equal opportunity, and nondiscrimination policies. The tool draws from a technical report and technical brief published by CapacityPlus on strengthening the health worker pipeline through gender transformative strategies.

Promoting Gender Equality in the Health Workforce: An Advocacy Tool

Sarah Dwyer — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 14:20:41 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

April 2015 (All day)

Promoting Gender Equality in the Health Workforce

Health workforce leaders may not be aware of the ways in which gender discrimination impedes efforts to develop, efficiently deploy, and fairly compensate their workforce. This can result in maldistribution, absenteeism, and a limited pool of motivated health workers, which can negatively impact the provision of health care. This advocacy tool helps users to understand how common forms of gender inequalities and discrimination can negatively affect the health workforce; assess whether health workers may be experiencing one or more forms of discrimination; and successfully advocate and take action through policy-making and improved management to reduce gender discrimination and build a more motivated and effective workforce to serve the population’s family planning, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, and other primary health care needs.

Gender Equality and Health Workforce Development Advocacy Tool

Sarah Dwyer — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 14:19:04 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

December 2014 (All day)

This forthcoming online tool focuses on aspects of gender discrimination in health workforce development specifically related to preservice education, such as issues affecting health professional students and faculty. If you would like us to contact you when we publish this tool, please let us know.

Gender and Health Systems Strengthening

Sarah Dwyer — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:53:02 +0000

Author's name:

Constance Newman

June 2014 (All day)

Gender and Health Systems Strengthening

This free course on the Global Health eLearning Center is authored by CapacityPlus’s Constance Newman of IntraHealth International. The course is intended to assist USAID field-based health officers, foreign service nationals, and US government partners to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment in health systems strengthening efforts. By the end of the course, the learner will understand how health systems components interact with each other, how gender plays a role in each health systems component, and how to address these gender issues in health systems strengthening activities in order to improve health and social outcomes. CapacityPlus’s Crystal Ng and Ann Yang of IntraHealth International served as course managers along with Nandini Jayarajan and Lisa Mwaikambo of JHU∙CCP.

Reforming Health Education Institutions to Eliminate Gender Discrimination

Carol Bales — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 04:00:04 +0000

Author's name:

Constance Newman, Crystal Ng, and Sara Pacqué-Margolis

January 2014 (All day)

Reforming Health Education Institutions Poster

Gender inequalities in admission, retention, and graduation are recognized as significant barriers to achieving preservice education goals. Less attention has been paid to how gender discrimination affects students’ education and career opportunities and faculty professional development, career opportunities, and satisfaction. CapacityPlus compiled and analyzed literature on gender discrimination in higher education, including health worker preservice education. Additional information was gathered by contacting institution staff and reviewing institutional websites. Presented at the 2014 Prince Mahidol Award Conference in Pattaya, Thailand on January 27–31, 2014, this poster summarizes the review, highlights lessons learned by the Kenya Medical Training College, and recommends key actions that stakeholders can take at institutional and governmental levels to counter gender discrimination.

Achieving HRH Commitments: Lessons Learned and Resources from CapacityPlus

Carol Bales — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 13:56:49 +0000

Achieving HRH Commitments: Lessons Learned and Resources from CapacityPlus

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

November 2013 (All day)

Achieving HRH Commitments: Lessons Learned and Resources from CapacityPlus

This presentation was given at the Third Global Forum on Human Resources for Health in Recife, Brazil, during the CapacityPlus side session on November 9, 2013. Project leaders shared innovative resources and lessons learned from their application at the country level in the areas of health workforce planning, production, management, performance, and retention.

Transforming Health Worker Education: Implementing Options to Eliminate Gender Discrimination

Carol Bales — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:54:41 +0000

Author's name:

Crystal Ng, Constance Newman, and Sara Pacqué-Margolis

March 2013 (All day)

Transforming Health Worker Education Poster

CapacityPlus compiled and analyzed literature on gender discrimination in higher education, including health worker preservice education. Additional information was gathered by contacting institution staff and reviewing institutional websites. Presented at the 4th Annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference in Washington, DC on March 14–16, 2013, this poster summarizes the review and recommends several key actions that stakeholders can take at institutional and governmental levels to counter gender discrimination.

Transforming the Health Worker Pipeline: Interventions to Eliminate Gender Discrimination in Preservice Education

Sarah Dwyer — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:12:18 +0000

Author's name:

Crystal Ng, Constance Newman, and Sara Pacqué-Margolis, with contributing authors Mesrak Belatchew, Diana Frymus, and Asha George

December 2012 (All day)

Transforming the Health Worker Pipeline

Governments and preservice education institutions must take action against gender barriers if they are to produce robust workforces able to respond to the health needs of the populations they serve. This report describes the results of a systematic and expert review undertaken to identify practices that have the potential to counter forms of gender discrimination against students and faculty in preservice education institutions. Also see the related technical brief.

Strengthening the Health Worker Pipeline through Gender-Transformative Strategies

Sarah Dwyer — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:56:07 +0000

Author's name:

Constance Newman, Crystal Ng, and Sara Pacqué-Margolis

December 2012 (All day)

CapacityPlus Technical Brief #7 (PDF)

CapacityPlus Technical Brief #7 (Interactive Version)

CapacityPlus conducted a systematic review of 300 articles, reports, program documents, and websites on gender discrimination in higher education, including health worker preservice education. A panel of experts in gender and in human resources for health then reviewed summaries of 51 interventions identified from the literature search, according to selected characteristics of gender-transformative interventions. This technical brief provides an overview of how gender discrimination affects health professional students and faculty as well as intervention options that the expert panel identified as having potential to counter gender discrimination. In addition, it offers recommendations for preservice education institutions and other stakeholders to address these challenges. Also see the related report.

Fondations de l’égalité des genres au sein du personnel de santé

Sarah Dwyer — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:18:45 +0000

Author's name:

Constance Newman, Catherine Murphy, Rebecca Rhodes, and Beth Massie

June 2012 (All day)

Fondations de l’égalité des genres au sein du personnel de santé

Ce cours a pour but d’exposer les participants à des concepts, des questions et des normes essentiels relatifs à l’égalité des genres parmi les effectifs sanitaires, et notamment les protections légales et politiques disponibles.

Foundations of Gender Equality in the Health Workforce

Sarah Dwyer — Wed, 30 May 2012 13:45:03 +0000

Author's name:

Constance Newman, Catherine Murphy, Rebecca Rhodes, and Beth Massie

May 2012 (All day)

Foundations of Gender Equality in the Health Workforce

This eLearning course produced by CapacityPlus’s HRH Global Resource Center is intended to expose the participant to basic concepts, issues, and standards related to gender equality in the health workforce. Also available in French.

Read related news. Register and take the course online using the link above.

Workplace Violence and Gender Discrimination in Rwanda's Health Workforce: Increasing Safety and Gender Equality

Sarah Dwyer — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:30:22 +0000

Author's name:

Constance J. Newman, Daniel H. de Vries, Jeanne d'Arc Kanakuze, and Gerard Ngendahimana

July 2011 (All day)

Human Resources for Health

This article in Human Resources for Health draws on research conducted during the Capacity Project, the predecessor to CapacityPlus.

Workplace violence has been documented in all sectors, but female-dominated sectors such as health and social services are at particular risk. This article reexamines a set of study findings that directly relate to the influence of gender on workplace violence, synthesizes these findings with other research from Rwanda, and examines the subsequent impact of the study on Rwanda’s policy environment.

Occupational Segregation, Gender Essentialism and Male Primacy as Major Barriers to Equity in HIV Care Giving: Findings from Lesotho

Sarah Dwyer — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:26:39 +0000

Author's name:

Constance J. Newman, Linda Fogarty, Lucia N. Makoae, and Erik Reavely

June 2011 (All day)

International Journal for Equity in Health

This article in the International Journal for Equity in Health draws on research conducted during the Capacity Project, the predecessor to CapacityPlus.

Gender segregation of occupations has been recognized as a major source of inequality worldwide with implications for the development of robust health workforces. In sub-Saharan Africa, gender inequalities are particularly acute in HIV/AIDS caregiving (90% of which is provided in the home), where women and girls make up the informal (and mostly unpaid) workforce. Men's and boy's entry into HIV/AIDS caregiving in greater numbers would both increase the equity and sustainability of national and community-level HIV/AIDS caregiving and mitigate health workforce shortages, but notions of gender essentialism and male primacy make this far from inevitable. The Capacity Project partnered with the Lesotho Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in a study of the gender dynamics of HIV/AIDS caregiving to account for men's absence in HIV/AIDS caregiving and investigate ways in which they might be recruited into the community and home-based care workforce. This article presents findings and recommendations resulting from the study.