Crisis in Israel and Gaza
As conflict escalates, the urgent need for humanitarian assistance intensifies.
As part of its transformative gender agenda of resilience programming, the Mercy Corps-led RIPA-North program used an approach of addressing restrictive gender and social norms which limit female participation in market opportunities, exclude women from having an active voice in community institutions, and undermine nutrition improvements. The approach, led by CARE International, is a process of Social Analysis and Action (SAA) in which participants in RIPA-North community and market platforms engage in dialogue with their communities to identify and ultimately address the restrictive norms.
This evidence brief summarizes the outcomes from RIPA-North’s ‘Gender Outcome Mapping’ Study, conducted in February 2023, which aimed to assess how communities themselves measure their progress towards gender equality. The findings indicate very positive signs of progress, with almost 75% of women reporting ‘high’ or ‘medium’ levels of change for all eight main categories of gender norm that pose a challenge for women’s participation and gender equity.
Some of the key findings include: