EngenderHealth

EngenderHealth is a leading global women's health organization committed to working toward a world where sexual and reproductive rights are respected as human rights and women and girls have the freedom to reach their full potential. In multiple countries around the world, EngenderHealth creates lasting change by training health care professionals and partnering with governments and communities to make high-quality family planning and sexual and reproductive health services available today and for generations to come.

A gender-equal world where all people achieve their sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Goal One: Building on our previous experience and expanding our work on prevention of and responsiveness to gender-based violence

Goal Two: Support adolescent girls and young women to live into their full potential, including economic empowerment, vocational training, leadership development, access to justice, ending child marriage.

Goal Three: Health-system strengthening and supporting universal health coverage (UHC) and resilient health systems

EngenderHealth has partnered with Korn Ferry to provide professional development advice and coaching to managers and supervisors as well as aspiring leaders within the organization. Team members are invited and coached to take on leadership opportunities such as leading working groups and committees, making presentations, and stretching beyond their regular assignments. There is also a strong emphasis on living our values through training provided at all levels on our gender, diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.

EngenderHealth teams around the world have sustained steady focus on advancing gender equality in and through sexual and reproductive health and rights programs, making important progress toward our global strategic objectives. EngenderHealth’s ability to pivot quickly and effectively to support communities, civil society partners, and governments in preventing and managing COVID, without losing momentum toward our broader goals, attests to our staff’s dedication and adaptive creativity. It also underscores the strength of our longstanding partnerships and the validity of our strategy, which addresses the needs of individuals, communities, and healthcare systems, and promotes supportive policies and laws, and of our focus on ensuring a gender, youth and socially inclusive approach. COVID-19 has continued to shape many aspects of EngenderHealth’s work, affecting what we do and how we do it. In consultation with donors, partners, and the communities we serve, we have made adjustments across our portfolio to address needs created by the pandemic and to ensure continued progress toward our program objectives. As just one example, USAID recently awarded EngenderHealth $4 million to build individual, community, and health-system capacity and resilience in vulnerable communities in India that have seen surges in gender-based violence (GBV). In at least six states, we will address GBV prevention and response in communities, offer digital mental-health support for healthcare providers, and build primary healthcare providers’ ability to identify and manage COVID-related emergencies.