The Global Health Workforce Network Gender Equity Hub

Seizing the Gender Dividend

Presented By: Roopa Dhatt Executive Director Women in Global Health 7th April 2018

GHWN Gender Equity Hub • Purpose: Accelerate large-scale gender-transformative progress to address gender inequities and biases in the health and social workforce

• One thematic hub under the GHWN umbrella, time limited, reporting to WHO

•Co-chaired by WHO and Women in Global Health. Meets fortnightly.

• Established at 4th Global Forum on Human Resources for Health, Dublin, Ireland

Priority areas for the health workforce

•Equal representation women/men in management/ leadership

•Equal pay for work of equal value

•Employment free from harassment, discrimination and violence

What we do •Mapping: eg evidence on good practice, what works

•Data and Evidence: current data and evidence, and gaps

•Policy Tools: capture and develop policy briefs

•Disseminate: evidence, policy tools, advocacy kits, accountability scorecards, guidance to other GHWN hubs

•Implementation: policy labs, business solutions, public – private sector engagement

Working For Health Deliverables

• Development of gender-transformative global policy guidance

• Support to build implementation capacity to overcome gender biases and inequalities in the education and labour market.

Who is in the Gender Equity Hub?

• Intergovernmental/Multilateral agencies eg UN

• Civil Society

• Academic, Research, Think Tanks

• UN Member States

• Foundations

• Private sector

• Individuals

January

February

• Submitted a commentary to the Lancet Call

•#LancetWomen

March

March

Work of Gender Equity Hub • January

•Research Call, submissions: 25.

•February •Abstract submission to the #LancetWomen abstract call

•March •5th March, Webinar: Gender Transformative approaches in the health and social workforce.

•7th March, Event: Women in the Health workforce, Seizing the gender dividend across the sustainable development goals

•13th March, UN CSW Event: Investing in rural health workers for the economic participation and empowerment of rural women and girls

•April • Research Analysis

• All research findings will be public

• Now synthesizing literature on gender equity and health workforce - gaps and what works

• Dissemination events including this one

Work of Gender Equity Hub Upcoming

• Research Paper: All research findings will be public

• Dissemination events online and in-person

•World Health Assembly •Storytelling event (TBC)

•Fall •Unconference in London (TBC), adjacent to the Women Leaders in Global Health Conference

•Health Systems Global (TBC)

•2019 •Women Deliver

Key messages • Women health workers deliver care to around 5 billion people. Empowering & enabling them is everybody’s business.

• Not just an issue for low & middle income countries.

• Pandemics, anti microbial resistance etc don’t respect national borders. We all need robust health systems everywhere.

• Smart to invest in health workers now – don’t wait till you need one

• Gender equity essential to Health for All & Universal Health Coverage

Finally, please…. - Work in your country/organization to initiate policy change to strengthen the female health workforce - Tell key partners in your country/organizations about the Hub - Join/follow the work of the Gender Equity Hub! - Join/follow Women in Global Health. Sign up for our newsletter Contact us: info@womeningh.org

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