Ida Ntawundora, EngenderHealth’s Country Program Manager from Burundi, shares her personal journey and some of the ongoing challenges and opportunities as part of the five-year Burundians Responding Against Violence and Inequality (BRAVI) project, supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Read here.

EngenderHealth has been awarded a grant from the U.S. State Department’s Office of Global Women’s Issues to address GBV in Malawi and Tanzania. The project aims to reduce the incidence of GBV and increase survivors’ access to comprehensive services. Read here.

The EngenderHealth-led RESPOND Tanzania Project (RTP) collaborated with the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MOHCDGEC) to contribute to the development of national strategies to curb GBV and violence against children (VAC). Read the latest results here, which were also highlighted at the recent Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research conference in Vancouver.

EngenderHealth has recently shared several tools and resources:

• Using Baseline Data to Develop an In-Country Strategy for Improving Family Planning Use and Service Delivery in Niger
• Policy Advocacy to Increase Political Commitment to Family Planning: An Approach Using National and Urban RAPID Advocacy Tools
• Strengthening the Advocacy Capability of Key Players to Improve the Policy Environment for Family Planning: A Collaborative Effort by RCPFAS, WAHO, and AgirPF
• Engaging Religious Leaders in Policy Advocacy to Improve the Social-Cultural Environment for Family Planning
• Is It Feasible to Implement a Cesarean Indication Classification System? Findings from Five Countries

EngenderHealth staff recently published research articles and opinion pieces:

• The Labor and Delivery Quality of Care Short Observational Index: A User Guide
• Factors associated with the failure of obstetric fistula repair in Guinea: implications for practice
• Integrating Intimate Partner Violence Screening and Counseling in a Family Planning Clinic: Evaluation of a Pilot Project in Conakry, Guinea
• Research to Action: Intervention to Reduce Barriers to Access Fistula Treatment in Nigeria and Uganda

To prevent fistula, end sexual violence against children, women — National Mirror [Nigeria]

Men Must Be Part of the Solution – Sharing Realities from Uganda to the United States — Girls’ Globe

Nipping VVF In The Bud — The Tide [Nigeria]