Sarah Degnan Kambou

This report details the two-year innovation phase of ISOFI (Inner Spaces, Outer Faces Initiative), a project focusing on gender and sexuality as important factors that influence reproductive health outcomes. The report discusses the methods used by the ISOFI project to mainstream gender and sexuality into sexual and reproductive health work, including HIV/AIDS, of CARE in sites in India and Vietnam. It also offers analysis of evaluation data to illuminate the successes and challenges of the project.

Working toward the reduction and elimination of gender-based violence, ICRW partnered with CARE Balkans and CARE International to implement a groundbreaking program working directly with young men between the ages of 13 and 19 to deconstruct masculinity in their cultures and determine how gender norms and male socialization lead to inequitable attitudes and behaviors toward women and girls.