For Release 5 October 2010

NOW AVAILABLE - The Interagency Gender Working Group (IGWG) is pleased to announce the launch of the IGWG Gender and Health eToolkit on K4Health.org. The eToolkit is a product of the IGWG, the K4Health Project and the U.S. Agency for International Development. It brings together an enormous wealth of gender resources in one location. The purpose of the eToolkit is to provide practical, "how-to" methodologies and tools on gender that are designed to move health practitioners and managers from awareness and commitment to direct application and practice in policy and program design, implementation, research, capacity building and monitoring and evaluation. 

The IGWG Gender and Health eToolkit is designed as a companion site to the IGWG website at http://www.igwg.org/  which has become a premier site for gender and reproductive health information, publications, and networking. The eToolkit broadens the set of resources available to USAID staff, contractors, gender experts, and other public health specialists and service providers. It provides access to hundreds of tools, to other gender toolkits and databases, and to prominent gender and health websites throughout the world. Technical areas of health covered in the eToolkit include, but are not limited to, sexual/reproductive health and family planning; maternal health; child health; HIV/AIDS; infectious disease; water and sanitation; and nutrition and food security. 

The IGWG Gender and Health eToolkit is intended to be interactive and we welcome your input! A discussion board allows users to post comments, suggest the inclusion of other resources, and share ideas about how to use the eToolkit. The eToolkit will be updated continuously to include new, relevant tools as they become available. Offline copies of the toolkit on CD or flash drive are available upon request. 
Consider linking to the IGWG Gender and Health eToolkit or install the K4Health eToolkit Window on your website to give users direct access to the eToolkit. 

To access the eToolkit, visit www.k4health.org/toolkits/igwg-gender


Heather M. Johnson
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