The United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) co-produced with partners a report documenting practice-based lessons across five UN agencies working in global health analysing what has worked, where, for whom, why and how, to promote gender equality in health. The research involved in-depth analyses of 14 case studies that were considered examples of successful programmatic and institutional gender mainstreaming across five UN agencies (UNAIDS, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO).
This Case Study Series consists of individual briefs for each of the 14 successful cases analysed as part of the project. Each brief presents further details about the particular case study, including the successful outcomes achieved, the pre-existing contextual factors that enabled success, the factors that triggered positive change, and the mechanisms that sustained these changes over time.
Below are the case studies categorised into three groups based on the types of successful outcomes achieved, reflecting the different levels that UN agencies work on and illustrating the capabilities and strengths of the UN system, namely those that:
Cases that empowered women and girls to resist harmful gender norms and practices and advocate for their own health needs:
Cases that put gender and health issues on the global agenda:
Cases that embedded gender equality issues in institutional processes and structures that supported gender equality in health programming:
