The SBA trainings are designed to enhance the capabilities of ANM and Staff Nurses (SNs) at District Hospitals, Community Health Centers (CHCs), and Primary Health Centers (PHCs) to improve the quality of intrapartum and newborn care and achieve better maternal and newborn health outcomes. In November 2022, a gender e-module was integrated into the SBA training to ensure gender-responsive service provision.
The video aims to capture the impact of the gender e-module training from Uma Shankar Dixit Women’s Hospital in Unnao and the steps taken by the staff and leadership to make the facility more gender-responsive, inclusive and equitable.
The gender integration pathway is a systemic guide to incorporating gender responsiveness into healthcare practices, programs, and policy. It provides a stepwise process to identify, analyse, and draw gender-responsive solutions to gender barriers that affect intervention outcomes. These solutions improve gender equity by challenging unequal gender norms, transforming power relations, and empowering end-users.
Read MoreThe UoM-IHAT Gender Analysis Framework is designed to systematically examine and understand the differences in roles & responsibilities, access to & control over resources, participation & decision-making, opportunities, and their impact on health program coverage based on individuals’ gender. It guides our programs in designing and implementing research/interventions to address gender-based inequalities, thereby ensuring more effective and equitable program coverage.
Read MoreThis Theory of Change (TOC) is part of the larger UPTSU TOC and provides a roadmap for integrating gender responsiveness across all programmatic interventions. This will ensure equitable access to respectful and improved RMNCH+N services, leading to a decrease in maternal and newborn mortality. The TOC outlines logical steps and the necessary sequence of activities needed to achieve long-term outcomes through broad and targeted interventions.
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