Generation
Equality
Forum 2021
What can we achieve for all
When she can #VoiceHerchoice?
Voice is power. Yet when cultural complexities silence individuals, women and girls bear the highest burden.
Achieving true gender equality requires that we build supportive systems that not only see, but champion, the whole woman. This is more than creating markets for health access. It’s about establishing opportunities so that we listen to and support every woman and girl to #VoiceHerChoice.
Through PSI’s consumer-powered approach, we develop and implement real-world approaches that bring women and girls – and all who influence their worlds – into the design and delivery of our public health programs. Together, we’ve changed the health conversation to respond to girls’ holistic needs. We’ve paved pathways for women to not only implement but design health solutions. And we’re exploring the value to women and girls when we meet the needs of men and boys too.
Yet, we’re still wrestling with the hard questions:
- How can we pave the way for her to #VoiceHerChoice?
- How can we create health systems and programs supportive of all genders?
- How can we balance the gender equity scales, once and for all?
Join us to learn together.
How can we make space,
for her to #voiceHerChoice?
To get transformative,
Go trans-generational.
Achieving true gender equality
Starts with seeing the whole woman
How might we establish opportunities to listen to and support every woman and girl to #VoiceHerChoice?
Adapting abortion services to COVID-19 - on her terms
How did her voice inform the adaptations that PSI and frontline implementers applied to safeguard legal abortion and post-abortion care (PAC) access during the pandemic?
How might these learnings support implementers in a post-COVID-19 world?
And which innovations should we integrate into routine safe abortion and PAC programming going forward?
To reach young people, ask young people how
Self-care practices put power power in the hands of young people, everywhere. But how?
We asked 50+ young people from IYAFP, PSI’s flagship adolescent contraceptive program A360 and Y-ACT to chat the promise (and challenges) of self-care’s integration into adolescent and youth contraceptive programming.
GENDER TRANSFORMATIVE PROGRAMMING
IN THEIR OWN WORLDS
WE ASKED PSIERS, HEALTH WORKERS, CONSUMERS AND GOVERNMENT MEMBERS AROUND THE WORLD THE BELOW QUESTIONS. LISTEN TO THEIR INSIGHTS IN THE VIDEOS THAT FOLLOW.
- How can gender equality make health systems more resilient?
- How can we commit to not only public health but human rights, too?
- What are the links between economic empowerment, social norm change and health outcomes?
- How can we build women and girls’ power to choose?
- For young girls, how can we pave pathways for health access championed by their families and partners?
- How can women use their influence within their families to inspire healthy behaviors?
- How can we break stigma that blocks health access?
- How can we understand the differences in men and women’s journeys to healthcare to speed them along the path toward better health outcomes?
- How do we overcome societal messages that say, “men don’t need healthcare?”
- What could civil society do to champion gender equality?
- How can we create health systems and programs supportive of all genders and sexual orientations?
What we're saying &
committing to at Gef2021
committing to at Gef2021
In times of scarcity and crisis, women needs are often de-prioritize. Women must have equal opportunity to work and earn – and that includes keeping and growing the number of women in the health workforce.
PSI joins Women in Global Health in committing to equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for our client-facing female healthcare workers. After all, supporting women to keep themselves safe and healthy paves the way for women everywhere to prosper and thrive.
Scaling up self-care is a solution leaders can use to make healthcare more equitable and just, and maximize access to services — all transformative for gender equality. But more than that, self-care represents an opportunity for women and girls to manage and control their own sexual health and fertility — translating to greater bodily autonomy and increased power over their lives.
The Self-Care Trailblazer Group (SCTG) believes in the potential of self-care in advancing gender equality by putting power and control in the hands of women and girls to manage their sexual and reproductive health. PSI joins SCTG in committing to gender equality, bodily autonomy and sexual and reproductive health and rights through self-care as an Action Coalition Commitment Maker.
Let’s Learn
TOGETHER
SKIP THE TIE. GIVE MEN SUPPORT TOO.
Supporting men’s health does not have to come at the expense of women’s wellbeing; on the contrary, it can improve it.
A FEMINIST FUTURE FOR PHILANTHROPY
As more women rise to positions of prominence — and millions more see their futures dim — philanthropy needs to take bold steps toward a feminist future.
