Working to Eliminate Gender-Based Violence in Communities around the World

EngenderHealth’s SGBV work is rooted in our holistic approach to everything we do. We work to bring SGBV information into our sexual and reproductive health programs wherever possible, including supporting healthcare providers with the information they need to prevent and respond to GBV, assisting local partners to reach communities with SGBV information, working with communities to transform norms, and supporting governments and institutions as they build systems to reduce and respond to GBV.

Four Young Leaders on Ensuring Youth Participation in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Four young leaders at EngenderHealth share advice on how institutions and young people themselves can ensure meaningful youth participation in SRHR.

Supporting Street Youth in Kinshasa, DRC

Nina Shalita, EngenderHealth Country Representative for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), explains our work with the local organization, REJEER, to provide family planning services and education on gender-based violence.

EngenderHealth envisions a gender-equal world where all people achieve their sexual and reproductive health and rights. We work with communities, institutions, and governments to dismantle gender-based barriers and to ensure people’s access to the information and services that they need to make their own sexual and reproductive decisions and, more broadly, to exert control over their lives.

Our work includes:

• Comprehensive sexuality education
• Contraceptive counseling and services
• Comprehensive abortion care
• Maternal healthcare, including fistula prevention and treatment
• Prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS and other STIs
• Prevention, detection, and treatment of cervical cancer
• Support and services for survivors of gender-based violence