The implementing partners work towards enhanced gender equality and empowerment of women and girls and those who have other gender identities in Latin America and the Caribbean focuses on raising awareness of their rights, expanding their access to contraceptives and other essential products, and preventing violence in their lives. To further our goals, we have identified evidence-based interventions that demonstrate sustainable changes over time such as Comprehensive Sexuality Education, an approach based on a framework of rights that seeks to equip young people with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values they need to determine and enjoy their sexuality (physical and emotionally), individually and in their relationships.
By focusing on strengthened prevention and response to gender-based violence (GBV) in alignment with a theory of change which underlies all the actions, we have identified four key domains of change in which gender power structures operate: 1) Transforming individual beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors; 2) Strengthening sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) primary prevention at individual, relational, community, and institutional levels to transform cultural norms and practices; 3) Increase access to services and resources, specially the health response to SGBV for women, girls, and those who have other gender identities; and 4) Influencing laws and policies to promote increased government commitment and accountability to prevent and respond effectively to SGBV.
To achieve sustainable progress on gender equality and prevention of VAW and VAC, change must occur in all four domains and the agency of women, girls, and those with other gender identities must be promoted throughout.
