IPE Global Resources

Gender equality is achieved when women and men, girls and boys, have equal rights, conditions, opportunities and power to shape their own lives and affect society. It is a fundamental human right, and a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. Without it societies are less stable, economies are weaker and development is unsustainable.

Vriddhi is a USAID flagship program which supports scale up of high impact Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCH+A) interventions with the goal of preventing child and  maternal deaths. It partners with governments of seven states and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India (GoI), uses a system based approach, leverages resources and establishes collaborative partnerships to expand the reach of RMNCH+A interventions.

Vriddhi is a USAID flagship program which supports scale up of high impact Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCH+A) interventions with the goal of preventing child and  maternal deaths. It partners with governments of seven states and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India (GoI), uses a system based approach, leverages resources and establishes collaborative partnerships to expand the reach of RMNCH+A interventions.

The complex interlinkages between poverty, development and the environment are well known: environmental degradation often affects the poor disproportionately, but poverty can also be a driver of unsustainable natural resource use and environmental decline. These impacts are amplified through the effect of climate change; and all impacts play out differently across differences in gender, social class and ethnicity. Forests, in particular, play an important role in the global ecosystem, intersecting with issues across multiple dimensions from livelihoods and land use through to forest management and monitoring, global trade and the management of global carbon emissions.