ICRW | Where Insight and Action Connect

Turning the Tide Together

ICRW and AIDSTAR-One explore how HIV programs in Africa are integrating gender strategies to turn the tide for women and girls.

Eyes That Haunt

She married at 15 and became a mother soon after. ICRW’s senior writer Gillian Gaynair reports from Ethiopia’s remote central highlands on life as seen through the eyes of a child bride.

Girls Take HIV Risk into Their Own Hands

A pilot program designed by ICRW begins to shift social norms that make adolescent girls in four Tanzanian communities more vulnerable to HIV infection and unwanted pregnancy. Our approach offers a promising model that can be applied in a variety of settings.

Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment

ICRW launches a new report to help researchers, practitioners and donors design effective, measurable programs to economically strengthen women. ICRW’s Anju Malhotra highlights some of the findings.

WHERE INSIGHT AND ACTION CONNECT

The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) works to make women in developing countries an integral part of alleviating global poverty. Our research evidence identifies women’s contributions as well as the obstacles that prevent them from being economically strong and able to fully participate in society. ICRW translates these insights into a path of action that honors women’s human rights, ensures gender equality and creates the conditions in which all women can thrive.

NORTHERN INDIAN 'APNI BETI' PROGRAM

Apni Beti

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, contributing editor-at-large for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, reports on a government program that ICRW is evaluating that pays girls to remain unmarried in northern India.

Special Event

The Bottom Line: How Big Business Is Empowering Women and Girls

A diverse panel will discuss how and why big business is banking on the future of women and girls.

Learn more »

What's New

Earning Their Way to Healthier Lives

Wed, 02/08/2012

An innovative program in Mozambique employs creativity, resiliency and targeted gender approaches to fight HIV and AIDS.

HIV and AIDS: Are We Turning the Tide for Women and Girls?

Wed, 02/08/2012

ICRW and AIDSTAR-One explore how HIV programs in Africa are integrating gender strategies to turn the tide for women and girls.

Why is Big Business Investing in Women & Girls?

Fri, 02/03/2012

Private sector philanthropic initiatives to economically empower women have rapidly proliferated in recent years.

Youth Program Expands to Vietnam

Wed, 01/11/2012

ICRW’s program that promotes equality among girls and boys in Mumbai-area schools is now taking root in a central Vietnamese province.

ICRW Rated as High Impact Nonprofit by Industry Experts

Thu, 01/05/2012

Philanthropedia identifies ICRW as one of the most effective in reducing violence against women internationally.

Perspectives Blog

Laying down arms, picking up the pieces: Meeting the unique needs of both women and men in post-conflict Republic of Congo

Women's Economic Empowerment

Women’s economic empowerment is a multifaceted concept. How can practitioners, researchers and donors design effective, measurable interventions?

Measuring economic empowerment »

The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)