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This Evidence Digest from the Disability Inclusion Helpdesk focuses on making healthcare systems more inclusive for people with disabilities. It includes a guest blog from FCDO’s Jo Keatinge on strengthening systems through integrated, country-led approaches. The digest summarises new guidance, programme learning, and research covering inclusive health policies, financing, service delivery, training, and community engagement.

Stigma plays a powerful and often overlooked role in shaping the experiences of survivors of gender-based violence (GBV). This annotated bibliography explores available evidence on how stigma impacts survivors and contributes to the persistence and normalization of GBV in emergency contexts.

These reports sets out the findings from a gender equality, disability and social inclusion (GEDSI) analysis, focused on biodiversity, sustainable seafood and pollution in coastal areas of Belize, Ghana, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Madagascar. 

This annotated bibliography provides an overview of resources relating to children born of rape, by building on a previous GBV AoR Helpdesk resource list on caring for children born of rape (2018) - and accompanying drop box repository of documents, which sought to identify examples of strategies, practical tools, etc. related to caring for children born out of rape.

This evidence digest examines available documentation on three main issues: 1) whether and how targeted school-based GBV prevention and response initiatives can reduce boys’ perpetration of violence, in the present and into adulthood; 2) whether and how targeted school-based GBV prevention and response initiatives can decrease exposure to violence for girls, both in the short and long term; and 3) any evidence of improvements in educational outcomes for children who participate in school-based GBV prevention and response programs.

This annotated bibliography looks at the existing resources available for understanding and responding to the kidnapping / abduction of women and girls in West and Central Africa, specifically relating to the Burkina Faso context.

This learning brief aims to give a concise, user-friendly summary of key considerations for ensuring that integrated service points – such as community centers and One-Stop Centers (OSCs) – are safe and supportive for women and girls at risk of or exposed to gender-based violence (GBV). The brief begins with a review of what an integrated service delivery model entails.

This Toolkit provides a comprehensive framework and practical guidance for integrating gender-responsive strategies into the planning, implementation, and management of NbS.

SDDirect co-authored this comprehensive piece of practical guidance for carbon project developers on how they can integrate gender into the design, implementation and monitoring of carbon credit projects. In depth guidance is provided on women’s equitable leadership and participation in projects, equal employment opportunities and fair pay, equitable benefit sharing and compensation, protection against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (SEAH), and accessible and inclusive grievance and reporting mechanisms.

This study explores how self-employed women in India’s informal economy are experiencing and responding to climate change.