Gender
Intersecting with other determinants of health, including age, socioeconomic status and education, gender influences health-seeking behaviours and health outcomes. Gender-related barriers operate at multiple levels, from the individual and the household to the community, hindering access to immunization services.
Health interventions cannot effectively meet the needs of all unless informed by sex-disaggregated data and gender-sensitive analysis and action. An integral part of reaching every last child with vaccines is also the increased participation of women in immunization activities.
The GPEI monitors its interventions through a gender lens and conducts regular gender analysis to identify and address gender-related barriers in its immunization and disease surveillance activities.
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Gender Strategy
The GPEI is committed to advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women in its efforts to eradicate polio. On 11 May 2019, the GPEI Polio Oversight Board officially endorsed the GPEI Gender Equality Strategy, 2019-2023 with the objective to promote the integration of a gender perspective into different aspects of the GPEI’s programming, to support countries in addressing gender-related barriers to polio vaccination to increase coverage and increase women’s meaningful participation in the polio programme.
The Strategy will be operationalized by action plans that will be tailored to meet the specific needs and challenges within different country contexts.
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GPEI Gender Equality Strategy, 2019-2023: Arabic ¦ Chinese ¦ English ¦ French ¦ Russian ¦ Spanish
Gender Technical Brief
The Gender Technical Brief includes a thorough gender analysis of polio eradication activities and introduces the GPEI’s gender-sensitive indicators.
