Gender and Evidence-Based Decision-Making
Gender and Evidence-Based Decision-Making
Gender shapes everyone’s experience of health care, their access to and use of services, and their interactions with health care providers. Gender is the social roles, behaviors, activities, attributes, and opportunities that any society considers appropriate for girls and boys; women and men; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex life populations.
Gender is a key cross-cutting consideration in our global and country programs. We look to promote gender equity within health systems, invest in women’s leadership, prioritize monitoring and evaluation efforts to garner health information and facilitate evidence-based decision making, and ensure that high-quality health services are made accessible to marginalized and/or hard-to-reach populations, such as sex workers and transgender individuals.
We prioritize monitoring and evaluation efforts to garner health information and facilitate evidence-based decision making. These efforts not only include disaggregating data by sex but also involve identifying women and girls in need and ensuring project designs incorporate appropriate strategies for reaching them.
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