Within the USAID/Ghana program, gender mainstreaming is a crosscutting theme. Snapshots of activities demonstrate a growing commitment to achieving gender-specific results and carefully assessing how activities impact both men and women and girls and boys. Illustrative activities include:

• Addressing social, economic, and cultural barriers to education that negatively impact access, quality, enrollment, and safety for girls;
• Promoting economic growth through enterprise development and capacity building for businesses and entrepreneurs and providing women with business management training and micro-credit for rural business start-ups to increase household income. Women artisans also have accessed technology to market their products globally;
• Strengthening civil society by empowering local groups to contribute to community development, targeting women's groups as key constituents, supporting the capacity of the Women's Caucus in Parliament, and training female District Assembly members;
• Mainstreaming gender considerations in health, with activities ranging from eliminating female genital cutting (FGC) and involving males in reproductive health, safe motherhood and maternal and child health initiatives to encouraging women community leaders to speak out on HIV/AIDS.

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