Empowerment of women and girls is critical to addressing pressing health and development challenges to ensure effective and sustainable development.
There is a growing recognition on the importance of equity to health and development, and many development agencies recognize as central to their programming the issue of bridging equity gaps, especially between the poor and the rich.
A community’s members are a rich source of knowledge about their community and their health and development needs. To design, execute, monitor and evaluate relevant, locally-owned programs, it is important to adopt participatory approaches and tap into the target communities’ and beneficiaries’ expertise and enthusiasm.
