Empower School of Health Partners with EngenderHealth to Launch Digital Course on Gender Mainstreaming in Health and Nutrition Programming

Empower School of Health supported EngenderHealth digitalizing of a self-paced online courses on ‘Gender Mainstreaming in Health and Nutrition Programming’ , primarily aiming to increase the effectiveness of addressing micronutrient deficiencies and improving health outcomes, as gender relations at all levels (households, communities, and the broader food supply chain) are important drivers of nutrition outcomes. Four modules were developed in the English language aiming to enable a deeper understanding of gender concepts like sex, gender, patriarchy and gender inequalities, establish the link between gender and nutrition, develop an understanding of gender mainstreaming for inclusive programs and policies, apply tools like Do No Harm Framework, Risk Assessment Matrix, Gender Integration Continuum Tool, and be able to apply gender-sensitive design and implementation approaches in supply side interventions of food and nutrition programmes such as the Large Scale Food Fortification.