With support from donors, collaboration with diverse strategic partners, valuable insight from our experts and staff, and the participation of individuals, communities, and healthcare systems, EngenderHealth brings high-quality, gender-equitable programming to hard-to-reach and historically un- and underserved individuals and communities.
EngenderHealth approaches every program with the belief that sexual and reproductive rights are human rights. Our programming builds on the lessons learned and best practices gained through working in more than 100 countries across 5 continents to support individuals, communities, and healthcare systems in delivering high-quality, gender-equitable programs and services that advance sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). We focus on evidence-based decision making and innovative solutions to ensure the best possible outcome for every program.
We focus on our core impact areas of comprehensive abortion care, contraceptive care, maternal and newborn health, and gender-based violence to make sure our programming aligns with our expertise for the greatest possible impact. To drive sustainability and results that last long beyond our programs, we focus on collaborating across sectors, transforming gender norms, meaningful youth participation, and health systems strengthening. The most important driver of EngenderHealth’s work is recognizing and valuing partnerships at every level—international, regional, country, community, public, and private. Partnerships allow us to maximize coordination, contribute knowledge, and ensure that supported activities are informed by current evidence and priorities.
A hallmark of EngenderHealth’s work is that we integrate key frameworks that safeguard the communities in which we work as well as our staff and partners to ensure that our programs do no harm from start to finish—from project design through implementation and evaluation.
The project expands on its pilot phase successes to empower women and young people to participate equally in society and realize their sexual and reproductive health (SRH) rights—including the rights to decide if, when, and how many children to have; access accurate SRH information and high-quality services; and live free from violence and coercion.
EngenderHealth’s Protecting SRHR in the Context of Fertility Decline pilot project is funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and implemented in partnership with the Population Reference Bureau (PRB). Through this project, we are exploring how concerns about declining fertility at national and sub-national levels influence support for investments in contraception and other reproductive health services. This exploratory effort will gather insights from representatives from global and national spheres to identify and understand fertility anxiety, develop contextualized messages that champion sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) amid shifting fertility trends, and support a range of actors including journalists in communicating about the topic. Why This Project Matters Fertility trends are reshaping national and global SRHR priorities. Concerns about…
Through the Provision of Life-Saving Protection and Gender-Based Violence Assistance project, funded by UNICEF, EngenderHealth is addressing the emergency humanitarian needs of conflict-affected internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, and host communities in Abaala and Berhale districts of the Afar region in Ethiopia. In this program, we are strengthening our ongoing efforts to address the high levels of gender inequality, which the secondary effects of the conflict in Ethiopia have exacerbated. EngenderHealth is partnering with UNICEF, the Afar Regional Bureau of Women and Social Affairs, and the Afar Regional Health Bureau. According to the Internal Organization for Migration, 4.3 million people have been internally displaced across Ethiopia as of June 2023. Conflict is the primary cause of displacement and has displaced…
The Reach, Expand, and Access Community Health (REACH) program in Ethiopia’s Jimma and Borena zones is a four-year initiative funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This program aims to ensure access to information and services for integrated sexual and reproductive health and rights, menstrual hygiene management, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) services for women and young people. The REACH project is implemented by EngenderHealth along with its consortium partners: Amref Health Africa and DKT Ethiopia. The project has four objectives: Improve women’s and young people’s agency through comprehensive and inclusive life skills training and engage them in interventions that improve self-efficacy to access and utilize REACH interventions and services Improve schools and surrounding communities’ support…
The SSD project’s goal is to reduce maternal, youth, and child/newborn death through improved uptake of FP-MNCH-N at the point of service delivery through healthcare workers’ competency development, last mile supply delivery, and implementation of integrated service delivery of selected high-impact proven interventions. This project is funded by the Gates Foundation and operates at the health facility level in eight regions of Ethiopia (Amhara, Oromia, Sidama, Central Ethiopia, South Ethiopia and Southwest Ethiopia, Afar, and Somali), in close collaboration with John Snow, Inc. (Prime), Ethiopian Midwives Association, Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia, inSupply Health, ThinkPlace, and additional local partners including universities and development associations. Over the past two decades, Ethiopia has achieved tremendous advances in making high-quality essential health services…
