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Women Enabled International’s accountABILITY Toolkit empowers women with disabilities and organizations working on their behalf to make use of available United Nations (UN) human rights mechanisms. Bringing the voices and experiences of women and girls with disabilities to the UN human rights system is essential to hold States accountable for their human rights obligations and [more…]
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This study provides an analysis on the situation of young persons with disabilities concerning discrimination and gender-based violence, including the impact on their sexual and reproductive health and rights. It also provides an assessment of legal, policy, and programming developments and specific good practices in service delivery as well as best-standard prevention and protection measures. [more…]
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Persons with disabilities are estimated to represent 15 percent of the world’s population. In humanitarian contexts, they may form a much higher percentage. They are among the most marginalized people in crisis-affected communities and are disproportionately affected by conflict and emergency situations. The guidelines set out essential actions that humanitarian actors must take in order [more…]
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Bridge Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopts an integrated approach to bridge between human rights and inclusive development perspectives. It aims to support organizations of persons with disabilities to translate the highest aspirations, norms, and standards to full and effective participation and inclusion of all, [more…]
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Women and young people with disabilities face discrimination and barriers when trying to exercise their rights. The Path to Equality for Women and Young Persons With Disabilities: Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Ending Gender-Based Violence is an ENGAGE multimedia presentation that describes the necessary policy changes and investments needed for women and [more…]
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Today, there are more young people in the world than ever before, and they have the power to bring about unprecedented societal and economic progress. The Advocating for Change for Adolescents! Toolkit was created with the hope of inspiring more youth-led, high-impact solutions for adolescent health and well-being to benefit today’s adolescents and future generations. [more…]
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The Youth Family Planning Policy Scorecard dashboard allows users to access, interpret, and compare countries’ youth family planning policies and programming. Users can assess the extent to which a country’s current policy environment enables and supports youth access to and use of family planning. This assessment uses eight indicators that have been shown to be [more…]
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In support of TB/HIV service integration, the USAID-funded Health for All project provided coordination and advocacy at the national level to align Angola’s National TB Control Program and the National Institute for the Fight Against AIDS goals, infrastructural support to facilities to ensure that they have the necessary supplies to offer services, and capacity building [more…]
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The Challenge Initiative’s Adolescent & Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health (AYSRH) Toolkit contains evidence-based interventions for increasing young people’s access to sexual and reproductive health services and information in urban environments. It includes a range of adaptable interventions relating to three components of adolescent health programming: services, demand creation, and advocacy. The Toolkit supports the [more…]
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Tackling the Taboo focuses on the need to address social control of adolescent girls’ sexuality in the fight against child, early and forced marriage and unions, and highlights the vital role played by gender-transformative program. The report presents findings from a review of 23 organizations that work at the intersection of child marriage and sexuality, [more…]
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