This brief explores key gender issues in maternal and newborn health service delivery and how they contribute to poor maternal health outcomes. It includes examples of indicators that can be adapted to achieve gender-responsive maternal and newborn health at the health system level.
This brief explores key gender issues within health financing for maternal and newborn health at the health systems level, and how they contribute to poor maternal health outcomes. It includes examples of indicators that can be adapted for monitoring and evaluation to achieve gender responsive maternal and newborn health.
This brief explores what gender-responsive M&E is, why it is important, and how to integrate it into health programs, with a particular focus on reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health.
This brief addresses gender inequities that health workers who provide maternal and newborn health services experience. Key issues faced by providers include long working hours, poor remuneration, lack of training opportunities, violence, and restrictions on mobility. Example indicators under each area are provided.
Health financing plays a significant role in determining the availability of health care, who can access care, and the degree of financial protection provided to poor and vulnerable populations. Gender-responsive health financing for Reproductive Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAHN) entails recognizing and analyzing how gender power relations affect the financing of access to and utilization of RMNCAH-N by women and men, boys, and girls.