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Women and girls living in poverty face more obstacles simply because they were born female. World Vision intentionally focuses on women and girls in every aspect of our work because God created and loves all people, and we know that when everyone gains equal access and opportunity, children are better cared for, families are stronger, and communities are more prosperous.<\/p>\n

Addressing inequalities for women and girls is integrated into everything we do, at every stage of a woman’s life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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World Vision helped author and launch the Minimum Standards for Mainstreaming Gender Equality.<\/p>\n

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Women in Niger transform their lives with warrantage.<\/p>\n

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Our promising practices provide evidence for how to integrate GESI in programming.<\/p>\n

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These are just a few examples of the many types of projects we facilitate.<\/em><\/p>\n

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912,031<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

women and girls benefited from access to financial services, savings groups, agricultural training, technology, and markets.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the support of World Vision donors in the U.S. in 2023. Total includes participants reached through World Vision’s privately funded programs and our publicly funded emergency response programs. Some women and girls have participated in more than one program.<\/em><\/p>\n

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179,049<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

women and girls benefited from programs that educated community members, increased protection, and challenged harmful cultural norms such as child marriage.<\/p>\n

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Our Gender Equality Approach<\/h2>\n
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At World Vision, we believe that promoting gender equality is core to effective and sustainable development. Gender inequality and gender-based violence costs everyone. An estimated one out of three women globally will be beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime… In its extreme form, gender-based violence is manifested through crimes such as rape and honor killing, harmful cultural practices such as early marriage and prenatal sex selection, but many of its forms are often subtler and more pervasive, such as restriction of behaviors and opinions and control over choices and resources.<\/p>\n
Gender-based violence spans cultures and social groups, religion, education levels, and has devastating consequences on the lives of women, children and their families. It is deeply rooted in gender inequalities, in cultural norms that assert men’s superiority and power over women, and in rigid norms about men’s and women’s roles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We strive to design programs that address gender inequality and prevent gender-based violence. We address gender inequality by working with men, women, girls and boys as equal partners in transforming discriminatory beliefs and practices. We believe in the importance of working with faith leaders as catalysts in changing harmful attitudes and behaviors in their communities. By engaging church leaders in respectful dialogue regarding their culture and the Bible, we affirm those aspects of culture that positively impact communities and challenge those that entrench power imbalances between men and women. By educating faith leaders on gender issues and emphasizing the unique giftedness and important role of women in the families and communities, women are empowered to influence their own futures, girls have improved opportunities to attend school, and churches become centers of justice against gender inequities in their communities.<\/p>\n
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Prenatal sex selection — choosing to continue or terminate a pregnancy based on the baby’s sex — is one of the most blatant forms of gender-based violence. In Armenia, more than 1,400 girls are unborn every year because of this practice. To combat it, World Vision’s work in Armenia focuses on examining and challenging harmful gender attitudes and practices that support son preference. In partnership with Promundo, World Vision has developed the Caring for Equality curriculum<\/span><\/a> to work with men, women, and youth to examine, question, and transform social norms.<\/p>\n
In India, World Vision works with men as fathers to address the issue of early marriage, child abuse, and gender-based violence in families. A More Equal Future<\/a> is a curriculum<\/span> that is used by community facilitators to engage with fathers, daughters, and entire families to critically examine and change norms that support child marriage.<\/p>\n
In Sri Lanka<\/span><\/a>, we work with fathers to prevent violence against women and children, and to promote the involvement of men as partners and caregivers. Community facilitators create safe and constructive spaces for men to reflect on and redefine what it means to be men and fathers in their communities. A qualitative assessment of this project showed strong indicators of success, including a decline in domestic violence, increased school enrollment, reduced alcohol consumption, and an increase in shared caregiving.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Gender Equality Resources” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n