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Author: Mercy Corps
County(s):
Samburu
Turkana
Technical Area(s):
Adolescents
Gender
Social and Behavior Change
Youth

Women, men, adolescents, and youth live within complex social systems that dictate their differential roles and responsibilities, vulnerabilities and capacities, relationships, and power dynamics and influence nutrition outcomes across their life. USAID Nawiri conducted a gender analysis and facilitated co-creation sessions with county representatives to understand how norms affect gender roles, decision-making power, and access to and use of resources, assets, and services at the household and community levels and across seasonality and times of crisis. The findings affirmed the program’s overarching hypothesis that attitudes, behaviors, and norms uphold gender inequities, contribute to gender-based violence, and are root contributors to malnutrition. The findings uncovered significant nuance and contextually specific behaviors, practices, and barriers to access and use of resources and strategies that inform approaches to integrate gender and social considerations across interventions.

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