Strengthening effectiveness evaluations through gender integration to improve programs for women, newborn, child, and adolescent health
Over the past decade, there has been substantial progress towards integrating our understanding of social determinants of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH) into health planning and programs. For these programs, gender inequity remains one of the most harmful fact...
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| author | Rosemary Morgan Henri Garrison-Desany Amy J. Hobbs Emily Wilson |
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| description | Over the past decade, there has been substantial progress towards integrating our understanding of social determinants of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH) into health planning and programs. For these programs, gender inequity remains one of the most harmful factors for women’s access to healthcare. Designing RMNCAH programs to be gender-responsive through active engagement with and overcoming of gender-related barriers remains paramount to increasing women’s access to and use of health programs. However, the integration of gender within RMNCAH programs and their evaluation is often non-existent or is limited in scope. Building on a prior framework for comprehensive gender analysis in RMNCAH, we discuss key steps used to incorporate a gender lens and analytical approach in the Real Accountability: Data Analysis for Results (RADAR) evaluation framework. In order to effectively address these key areas, gender must be integrated into all stages of the evaluation, including tool development and programmatic activities that are associated with each question. Our paper includes practical activities and tools that evaluators may use to integrate gender into their evaluation tools. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-187fb982488746768813eb0f58a6c69e2022-12-22T02:36:39ZengTaylor & Francis GroupGlobal Health Action1654-98802022-06-0115S110.1080/16549716.2021.20064202006420Strengthening effectiveness evaluations through gender integration to improve programs for women, newborn, child, and adolescent healthRosemary Morgan0Henri Garrison-Desany1Amy J. Hobbs2Emily Wilson3Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthOver the past decade, there has been substantial progress towards integrating our understanding of social determinants of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH) into health planning and programs. For these programs, gender inequity remains one of the most harmful factors for women’s access to healthcare. Designing RMNCAH programs to be gender-responsive through active engagement with and overcoming of gender-related barriers remains paramount to increasing women’s access to and use of health programs. However, the integration of gender within RMNCAH programs and their evaluation is often non-existent or is limited in scope. Building on a prior framework for comprehensive gender analysis in RMNCAH, we discuss key steps used to incorporate a gender lens and analytical approach in the Real Accountability: Data Analysis for Results (RADAR) evaluation framework. In order to effectively address these key areas, gender must be integrated into all stages of the evaluation, including tool development and programmatic activities that are associated with each question. Our paper includes practical activities and tools that evaluators may use to integrate gender into their evaluation tools.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2021.2006420gendergender integrationwomen’s healthmaternal healthchild health |
| spellingShingle | Rosemary Morgan Henri Garrison-Desany Amy J. Hobbs Emily Wilson Strengthening effectiveness evaluations through gender integration to improve programs for women, newborn, child, and adolescent health Global Health Action gender gender integration women’s health maternal health child health |
| title | Strengthening effectiveness evaluations through gender integration to improve programs for women, newborn, child, and adolescent health |
| title_full | Strengthening effectiveness evaluations through gender integration to improve programs for women, newborn, child, and adolescent health |
| title_fullStr | Strengthening effectiveness evaluations through gender integration to improve programs for women, newborn, child, and adolescent health |
| title_full_unstemmed | Strengthening effectiveness evaluations through gender integration to improve programs for women, newborn, child, and adolescent health |
| title_short | Strengthening effectiveness evaluations through gender integration to improve programs for women, newborn, child, and adolescent health |
| title_sort | strengthening effectiveness evaluations through gender integration to improve programs for women newborn child and adolescent health |
| topic | gender gender integration women’s health maternal health child health |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2021.2006420 |
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