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ICRW 2007 Annual Report

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2007 Annual Report: Leaders Inspire Change

2007 Annual ReportICRW released its 2007 annual report Leaders Inspire Change. The report provides a snapshot of ICRW’s work to bring gender perspectives into development programs and policies and develop practical solutions that advance gender equality.

Highlights from the report include ICRW’s work on reducing HIV stigma; integrating gender into programs; securing property rights for women; and improving the well-being of women and adolescent girls.

View the report.

Using a Gender Lens

When ICRW views a problem through a gender lens, it means we seek to understand what are the expected and common norms of behavior and how these differentially influence the lives of girls and boys, women and men.

Learn more about how ICRW uses the gender lens.

 


 

EXPLORE OUR WORK

Adolescence | HIV and AIDS | Food Security & Nutrition| Economic Development | Reproductive Health | Violence against Women | Women's Rights

 

RESEARCH AREAS

ICRW works with partners across the globe to ensure adolescents' safe, healthy and productive passage into adulthood.

Adolescence

Today's generation of adolescent girls is the largest in history and represents an unprecedented opportunity to create lasting change. In the developing world, however, adolescence is a time of heightened risks, which are particularly severe for girls. ICRW works with partners across the globe to ensure adolescents' safe, healthy and productive passage into adulthood. Learn more...
 

HIV and AIDS

Women and girls face different vulnerabilities to HIV infection and unique barriers to accessing treatment and care. ICRW was one of the first organizations to document the links between gender inequality and the spread of AIDS. Our work continues to lead the way to a more comprehensive understanding of how to integrate gender into AIDS programs and empower women to fight AIDS. Learn more...
 

Our work addresses gender inequality in households and communities to help break the hunger-poverty cycle.

Food Security and Nutrition

Women are the primary food and care providers for their families. Yet because of gender norms, they often have limited access to and control over resources and are excluded from household decision making. Our work addresses gender inequality in households and communities to help break the hunger-poverty cycle.  Learn more...
 

Women play crucial roles in driving economic development yet make up a majority of the world's poorest households.

Economic development

Throughout the world, women play crucial roles in driving economic development yet make up a majority of the world's poorest households. ICRW was one of the first to show how to lift societies out of poverty by addressing gender norms that deprive women and girls of opportunities such as education, credit and economic rights. Learn more...
 

Reproductive health care is vitally important to women's overall health and well-being.

Reproductive Health

Reproductive health care is vitally important to women's overall health and well-being.  Our programs work with women, girls, men and boys to ensure women's knowledge of and access to reproductive health services in ways that empower women and improve the overall health of girls, women and communities. Learn more...
 

Violence against women cuts across culture, class and income with enormous consequences for women.

Violence against Women

Violence against women cuts across culture, socioeconomic class and income with enormous consequences for women, their families and their societies. Eliminating this gross violation of women's human rights is crucial if the world is to achieve gender equality and women's empowerment. ICRW and its partners undertake innovative research to explore the complex roots of gender-based violence and develop promising solutions. Learn more...

 

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