It’s up to all of us
Building safe sanitation without data bias
Our Water, Sanitation & Hygiene program accelerates gender equality for women and girls. We generate gender-disaggregated data to inform the development of programs and products that increase women’s participation in sanitation decision-making at the household and policy level.
Making agriculture inclusive
Within our agriculture program we make investments in women’s empowerment which together help close systematic gender gaps in productivity and access to services, markets, and entrepreneurial opportunities.
Banking on the future of women
Our financial services program works with partners to support gender equality initiatives, such as digitized government benefit payments, to ensure continued progress toward the promise of financial inclusion.
Eradicating gender barriers and polio
Through our Polio program’s eradication efforts, our partners have learned how to overcome gender barriers to working with people in the poorest and least accessible areas.
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When women gain agency, it indirectly challenges some of the unwritten rules that say women are less than men.
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