Gender Equality and Social Inclusion.

Gender Mainstreaming and Integration

Experts discuss why gender mainstreaming is crucial in all stages of program planning and management.

Berry Production in Bosnia

With assistance from the USAID and Sida joint Fostering Agriculture Markets Activity project, Amra Ugarak was able to start a berry production business and provide a better life for her family in Bosnia.

Justice for Adolat

One of the most effective ways to improve family incomes in the developing world is to empower women. See how one USAID project is helping tens of thousands of women in Central Asia in their fight for a better future.

Women of the Palestinian Authority

Between 2005 and 2011, there was a large increase in the number of women taking leadership roles in the Palestinian Authority. Learn about how USAID training helped them further develop their skills.

Relentless

She was once the victim of injustice. Now she is using what she learned to spare other women the same fate in Central Asia.

Saving For Health

USAID’s Maximizing Agricultural Revenue and Key Enterprises in Targeted Sites worked with Nigerian NGOs to help more than 900 women increase their income and improve child nutrition.

Producer Associations in Colombia

Responding to the violence and instability brought by coca cultivation, associations in Anorí, Colombia created a plan to return to responsible farming, resulting in an improved economy, reduced violence, and an empowered community.

Empowering Colombian Women

The Mobile School empowers women in Cauca as political and social organization leaders — training them on topics such as democracy, peace, and women’s rights. Women then replicate the training with others in their own communities.

What Men Can Do, Ladies Can Do

The Feed the Future Uganda Youth Leadership for Agriculture Activity partnered with Sing With Me Happily to train 108 female youth in tractor operations and help them find employment across Uganda.

A Female Tractor Operator in Uganda Breaks Barriers

With support from the Feed the Future Uganda Youth Leadership for Agriculture Activity, Kevin Akello became the first female tractor operator in her community and proved “what a man can do, a woman can also do.”

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Kelly Cronen

Garrett Dorer

Susan Kemp

Sarah Nugent

Audrey Spencer

Sexual Harassment, Exploitation, and Abuse: A Toolkit for Building a Prevention and Response Program

TAWA CLA Technical Brief

Disability Inclusion

Our Vision for Diversity and Inclusion

Global Approach to Women in Leadership

From Design to Implementation: How USAID’s Solicitations and Resulting Awards Include Underrepresented Groups

Success Story: Socially Responsible Manufacturing Brings Success

Validating the Truth About Gender in the West Bank for Program Design

Asia and Middle East Economic Growth Best Practices (AMEG) Final Report

16 Facts About Gender-Based Violence

Key Considerations for Land Tenure Policies that Affect Youth

Our Work in Gender Equality and Social Inclusion

Technical Brief: Gender Sensitive Policies

BIJAK’s Strategic Approach on Gender

16 Days Campaign Infographic

A Summary of the Desk Review: The Impact of Gender Mainstreaming and Integration on Social and Cultural Norms

Educating Teenage Girls: Worth the Investment

Integrating and Mainstreaming Gender into Social and Behavior Change Programs: Gender Conference Presentation

Integrating Gender Into Trade Capacity-Building Programs in the Middle East and Asia Report

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Catalyzing Behavioral Change

High-impact communications campaigns transformed awareness and prevention of health challenges in Zambian communities.

Transforming the Nigerian Agriculture Sector

Nigerians who farm for a living often face low harvests and sales, which threatens the population’s livelihoods, access to food, and health.

Investing in Afghanistan’s Future

Supporting and training micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises in Afghanistan, which comprise 80 percent of the labor force, has strengthened the country’s financial sector.

Piloting and Promoting Best Practices for Economic Growth

Piloting and sharing approaches to job creation, public financial management, trade and customs, access to finance, enterprise and workforce development, and economic inclusion is promoting economic growth in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Helping All of Vietnam’s Citizens

Vietnam must ensure that the benefits of its recent growth period reach all its citizens, including historically disadvantaged groups, such as women, people with disabilities, and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and intersex (LGBTI) community.

Stronger and Healthier Households in Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan farmers are getting linked with buyers, financing, training, and inputs to sustainably increase incomes and improve nutrition in an effort to improve the livelihoods of vulnerable populations.

Improving the Guatemalan Justice System

Guatemala must address weaknesses in its justice system to ensure that the country’s most vulnerable populations can access vital services.

Supporting Mexico’s Approach to Protecting Human Rights

As the government of Mexico implements its National Human Rights Plan at the federal and state levels, it must address structural challenges to human rights and enhance its dialogue with civil society organizations.

Advocating for a Vocal Civil Society in Nigeria

Nigerian citizens need more tools and resources to learn how to productively contribute to reform at the local, state, and national levels.

Paving the Way for Women in Government

Historically, women have been extremely underrepresented in the Afghan government, and as a result, they have had limited ability to shape policies and programs that directly affect them.

Boosting Food and Economic Security in Afghanistan

In southern Afghanistan, where farmers and businesses have lagged behind in production and sales, interventions to promote better farming and agribusiness practices strengthen the economy.

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News: Chemonics Releases SHEA Prevention and Response Toolkit

Chemonics has launched a Sexual Harassment, Exploitation, and Abuse (SHEA) Prevention and Response Toolkit to help the development community protect people from sexual assault and to engage organizations in working and learning together to share best practice and important lessons in SHEA. The free, open-access toolkit provides organizations with a step-by-step guide on how to…

Development Starts Here — A Pledge to Action for Diversity and Inclusion

This post originally appeared on Devex. So often international development professionals facilitate incredible change in the most challenging environments, yet it can be difficult to practice what we preach. By the very nature of our work with people from all parts of society, all over the globe, international development firms — including Chemonics — have,…

Our Shared Responsibility: Combatting Sexual Violence through Prevention and Response

A recent study conducted in the United States found that 81 percent of women and 41 percent of men have experienced some form of sexual harassment or abuse in their lifetime. While limited data makes it difficult to quantify the global scale of sexual violence, stories of street and workplace harassment across the world are…

Making the Future Accessible: Safeguarding Women with Disabilities in the Workplace

Girls and women with disabilities experience up to 10 times more gender-based violence than those without disabilities (United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) global study). This can include physical or sexual violence, often perpetrated by family members or neighbors who know they are alone at home. To compound the situation further, women with disabilities have a…

She Is an Agripreneur: Enabling Female Entrepreneurship in Agribusiness

Rapid urbanization in developing countries is shifting demand for agricultural goods. Meanwhile, the digitization of value chains is generating more transparent information on the pricing and movement of goods. These changes within food systems open windows of opportunity for agripreneurship — that is, entrepreneurship in the agriculture sector — both on the farm and beyond…

News: Chemonics’ President and CEO Susanna Mudge Joins Women Leaders on Panel at Global Women’s Summit

On Tuesday, October 15, 2019, Chemonics’ president and CEO Susanna Mudge participated in Foreign Policy’s global women’s summit, “Her Power: Global Voices, Global Impact.” Co-hosted in partnership with the Inter-American Commission of Women of the Organization of American States, the Inter-American Task Force on Women’s Leadership, and the International Monetary Fund, the summit convened professionals…

Out and About: How to Create Responsive Security Resources for LGBTQ+ Travelers

More than 70 countries criminalize consensual same-sex acts between adults, and LGBTQ+ individuals are often faced with significant discrimination, stigma, and violence. Recognizing that LGBTQ+ development professionals work in many of these countries and carry concerns about safety and security, Chemonics established an LGBTQ+ employee resource group (ERG), ChemPRIDE, which partners with the company’s security…

The Problem with the Phrase ‘And Other Vulnerable Groups’

This post originally appeared on Devex. Have you ever heard the phrase, “women, youth, and other vulnerable groups” in a development context? If the answer is yes, you probably recognize that this phrase is common across development programs. Usually, it is used to show that we’re advocating for the needs of communities that are most…

News: Chemonics Announces New Corporate Diversity and Inclusion Director Albert E. Smith Jr.

Chemonics International welcomes Albert E. Smith Jr. as director of corporate diversity and inclusion. Mr. Smith brings 15 years of experience leading medium-to-large inclusive change management initiatives in the federal government, non-profit, and private sectors to Chemonics. Most recently, Mr. Smith worked at Cook Ross, where he engaged with executives, leaders, and individual contributors at…

3 Questions with Todd Diamond on Countering Violent Extremism and Preventing Gang Violence

This post was adapted from an interview between Elisabeth Dallas, Chemonics’ Peace, Stability and Transition Practice director, and Todd Diamond, a conflict, stability, and security director in Chemonics’ U.K. Division. For the full interview, watch the video below. How are violent extremism and gang violence — and the development community’s approaches to them — similar?…

Stigmatized for 2,535 Days

Women menstruate an average of 2,535 days of their lives, according to Dr. Julitta Onabanjo of the United Nations Population Fund. That’s 2,535 days in which many women experience increased stigma, isolation, and hardship. There are many countries that are working to address this reality through the support of local partners and donors, but there…

Beginning the D&I Journey: 5 Questions to Ask

Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Execute a few simple steps. Do it again and again and … poof, success! While this formulaic approach may work for some organizational processes, the path toward a successful diversity and inclusion (D&I) program for your workplace can be nonlinear and messy. For those of us who have worked in this arena,…

Collaboration for Disability-Inclusive Health Care: Now’s Our Moment

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 15 to 20 percent of people globally have a disability and 80 percent of them live in a developing country. This means that more than 900 million people with disabilities live in a low- or middle-income setting. These individuals face a variety of barriers, including restrictive and stigmatizing…

News: Chemonics Tackles High-Priority Global Education Issues at CIES 2019

From April 15 to April 18, Chemonics will present at the 2019 Annual Conference of the Comparative & International Education Society (CIES) in San Francisco, California. The conference convenes thousands of researchers, students, practitioners, and policymakers from around the globe to discuss high-priority education issues. In their presentations at CIES, Chemonics’ education specialists will tackle…

Disability Measurement Challenges: Not an Excuse to Delay Inclusive Education

According to the World Report on Disability, more than one billion people (15 percent of the world’s population), have a disability, and most children with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries have limited to no access to education. Though staggering, this statistic is likely higher because we have a hard time measuring disability. As a…

Balancing for Better – And Beyond

Happy International Women’s Day! This is an important day to reflect on and celebrate the critical contributions that women make to our society, our workplaces, and lives. There is so much to be proud of and still much to do to ensure women have equitable access and recognition for their amazing contributions. I am excited…

Best of the Blog 2018

Check out our countdown to the most popular posts from 2018:* 10. Making Development Dollars Go Further By Spencer Parsons and Gabriel Gonzalez-Kreisberg It will require an extra $2.5 trillion to achieve the SDGs. Can the development community find creative ways to fill that gap? 9. How Can Countries Pay for Their Health Systems? Supply Chains Might…

The Power of a Picture: Elevating Women’s Voices through Art

The global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign calls for the elimination of all forms of gender-based violence (GBV). It takes place every year between November 25 and December 10, culminating on Human Rights Day. Human Rights Day celebrates universal rights — including the rights to life, liberty, and security — that are…

Proud and Loud Resilience Programming

Although international development programs often seek to extend aid efforts to the LGBTQ community as part of an inclusive development approach, these efforts can fail in places where there is a significant dichotomy between the program’s goals and the host country’s legislative and religious norms. LGBTQ efforts can be sidelined when aid efforts focus on…

Facilitating Gender Equitable Policy Reform: Four Principles

Policy reform and implementation are always a challenge for donors and implementing partners. In transitional states, this process is even more complicated by shifting incentives and priorities. A facilitative approach can overcome these challenges. We have witnessed this in Afghanistan, where the right balance of coordination and direct technical assistance is accelerating reforms to promote…

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