Activities: Gender Integration throughout USAID Programs
The integration of gender concerns throughout USAID’s
portfolio is the responsibility of the entire Agency. One
of the top priorities of the WID Office is to help promote
greater institutionalization of a gender perspective throughout
all USAID programs. The WID Office works to achieve this through:
assistance to USAID Missions and other operating units; dissemination
of best practices; identifying and sharing emerging development
issues with differential impacts on women and men globally;
and creating programs and activities to address new and emerging
issues.
Gender Matters: Integrating Gender - Achieving
Results: The Women in Development Indefinite Quantity Contract
(WID IQC)
In September 2002, the Agency awarded an IQC to six contractors
to support the Agency’s efforts to take the roles of
both women and men into account in its programming in order
to achieve its development goals. All USAID operating units
are eligible to execute Task Orders under this mechanism utilizing
their own funds as long as gender is an integral part of the
scope of work. Programs can include short and long-term technical
services and training; research and analysis; communications
and outreach (including conferences and workshops) for all
regions and in all sectors.
IQC BROCHURE (108K - PDF)
Current Activities
Gender Integration (Communications & Outreach)
Catalyzing Equitable Development: An Initiative
To Institutionalize A Gender Perspective In PVO And NGO Work
In The Field
Short-Term Technical Assistance and Training
(STTA)
Inclusion of People with Disabilities in InterAction
Members Operations and Programs
Investing in Women in Development (IWID) Fellows
Program
Please see the Activity
Archives for a list of completed Gender Integration activities.
Gender Integration (Communications & Outreach)
Implementing Partner: Development
& Training Services, Inc.
Length of Activity: September 2002 - September
2007
Objective: To assist EGAT/WID in sharing knowledge
on gender-related issues within USAID and with partners. It
provides services to the WID Office in the areas of communications
and outreach, research, and a host of other activities. It
is also the repository for all EGAT/WID publications and other
gender-related publications that are provided to the office.
Activities: Revamping and maintaining the
WID Website; developing a database to track all Task Orders
under the IQC; conducting a literature search on school-related
gender violence, and providing administrative support to the
WID office. Activities remain flexible in order to meet the
needs of the WID Office.
Reports & Publications:
Gender Matters: Integrating Gender - Achieving Results
WID
IQC Brochure (108K,PDF)
Unsafe Schools: A Literature Review of School-Related
Gender-Based Violence in Developing Countries
Full
Report [1,587 kb, PDF]
Catalyzing Equitable Development: An Initiative To Institutionalize A Gender Perspective In PVO And NGO Work In The Field.
Implementing Partner: InterAction, Commission on the Advancement of Women (CAW)
Length of Activity: January 2003 - December
2005
Objective: This grant helps support a program
to institutionalize a gender perspective in the work of development
and humanitarian assistance PVOs and NGOs, members of InterAction,
as a necessary means to improve living conditions for poor
communities in Africa and Asia. It (a) enables InterAction
member agencies and partner NGOs to develop, adopt and implement
gender equitable approaches; (b) includes efforts to increase
support for gender equality at the executive levels of InterAction
members agencies and partner NGOs; and (c) facilitates communication
by field professionals in PVOs and NGOs on effective strategies
for equitable development and dissemination of those strategies.
Activities: Convening the CAW's Gender Audit
course for PVOs, NGOs, and staff of other development organizations,
twice a year in the US, in Africa in October 2003 (with the
Gender Development Institute), and in Asia in 2004 (with the
International Institute for Rural Reconstruction); sponsoring
an online peer learning community for practitioners on organizational
capacity building for gender equality; developing and publishing
a book of "Asian Innovative Practices for Gender Integration;"
strengthening the involvement of PVO CEOs and senior managers
in gender integration efforts; and conducting an action research
study in Africa on the connection between gender integration
and the impact on field programs. In April 2003 trained staff
of PVOs and NGOs to apply the "Gender Audit" that
was developed by InterAction.
Short-Term Technical Assistance and Training (STTA)
Implementing Partner: DevTech
Systems, Inc.
Length of Activity: September 2002 - September
2005
Objective: Through this Task Order (TO) services
can be provided to USAID Missions, and other operating units
as well, in such areas as strategic planning, program performance
measurement, gender assessment and analysis, project design,
implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. Implementing
partners, Missions and operating units within USAID will be
able to obtain technical assistance and training to address
gender-related concerns in their programs. (See IQC Brochure
on how to access assistance through this TO.) STTA helps to
develop strategies for incorporating and addressing gender
concerns in all activities and provides sector specific guidelines
for integrating gender issues in development activities.
Activities: Since this Task Order was awarded,
approximately forty requests have been received from Missions
and other operating units. Assessments have been completed
in Honduras, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Bolivia, Jordan, Tanzania,
Morocco, Guyana and the Caucasus. Activities are underway
in the West Indies on a Slum Electrification Assessment and
a training manual for the Africa Bureau.
Reports & Publications:
USAID Caucasus; Full
Report [818 kb, PDF]
USAID Guyana; Full
Report [330 kb, PDF]
USAID Morocco; Full
Report [376 kb, PDF]
Inclusion of People with Disabilities
in InterAction Members Operations and Programs.
Implementing Partner: Mobility International USA (MIUSA)
Length of Activity: September 2001 –
September 2004
Objective: This award aims to: increase participation
by people with disabilities, especially women and girls with
disabilities, in InterAction member agencies as participants,
staff, administrators and beneficiaries; and increase implementation
of the Disability Standards to the InterAction PVO Standards
by member agencies, regarding inclusion of people with disabilities,
especially women and girls with disabilities in organizational
governance, management, and programs
Activities: MIUSA has conducted a survey
and a report has been produced and disseminated on gender
and disability within InterAction member agencies. In order
to increase participation of people with disabilities, especially
women and girls with disabilities, ongoing partnerships with
various InterAction member agencies have been established
and gender appropriate resource materials, training, and technical
assistance is being provided.
Reports & Publications:
Building an Inclusive Development Community: A Manual
on Including People with Disabilities in International Development
Programs is a toolkit for development agencies and
others concerned with the inclusion of people with disabilities
at all levels of the development process.
Loud
Proud and Passionate ® Including Women with Disabilities
in International Development Programs is a resource
book that offers perspectives, recommendations and strategies
of women with disabilities who are taking grassroots leadership
in developing countries.
Gender and Disability: A Survey of InterAction Member
Agencies Findings and Recommendations on Inclusion of Women
and Men with Disabilities in International Development Programs
– Full
Report
Investing in Women in Development (IWID)
Fellows Program
Implementing Partner: Institute of International Education
Length of Activity: September 1999 - September
2004
Objective: The IWID Fellows Program provides
Missions and USAID/W units with experienced, mid-level professionals
who, in addition to gender analytical skills, offer technical
expertise and assistance in all strategic areas of concern
to USAID. IWID Fellows are mid-career, U.S. citizen professionals
(master's degree or higher) with 4-15 years professional experience
in one of USAID's sector areas. IWID Fellowship assignments
are twelve months, with the option to extend for a second
year. This is a Leader with Associate cooperative agreement
and funded by the Bureau or Mission where the Fellow is placed.
Activities: Ten IWID Fellows have been fielded
since the activity began. Five IWID Fellows are currently
in place with other fellowships under consideration by Missions
or Washington Units.
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