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PROGRAMS Through program experiments, research, publications, and policy dialogue, the Gender, Family and Development Program (GFD) is a leader in highlighting the social determinants of reproductive and sexual health. GFD aims to demonstrate, in practice, the links between gender, participatory development, and specific sexual and reproductive health goals.
Thus, the program gives priority to fostering and documenting programs that empower women and girls and realign gender roles, and to identifying social moments (such as early marriage or late childhood/early adolescence) and arenas in which power differentials between males and females are the most consequential or the most amenable to change. GFD is currently giving much attention to the development of support for adolescent girls in highly traditional societies to give them new choices in the transition to adulthood, allowing them, for example, to delay marriage past age 18; experimenting with the creation of new social and economic opportunities; and creating safe, nonfamilial spaces for girls (see Transitions to Adulthood and Safe Spaces). GFD also strives to bring considerations of social context into the design, implementation, and evaluation of sexual and reproductive health services and programs, including HIV information, education, and outreach. Over the last eight years, the GFD staff have worked with colleagues across the Population Council in developing a tighter focus on power in sexual relations, how gender, along with other structural determinants of social power, operate to affect intimate relationships, human sexuality, and sexual health. See Also
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