Last week, I was proud to represent EnCompass and support Save the Children and a global community committed to maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) during the Saving Newborn Lives Legacy e-Talks.

You’ve completed your project’s gender analysis, but what do you do with the findings? How can you ensure the recommendations will be implemented consistently? How do you hold your staff accountable to ensure gender integration in all project activities? In Ethiopia,...

I serve as the Senior Gender-Based Violence advisor on the USAID-funded Karabo ea Bhopelo (KB) Activity in Lesotho. Our mandate is to strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Gender, and my role is to liaise with the Ministry of Gender, and make sure gender and...

In Ethiopia, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to think differently and adapt quickly to a new environment and a new reality. Much of our work culture here relies on in-person communication, rather than online, and there are challenges of connectivity. So, working...

The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected my routine and work as the Gender, Adolescent, and Youth Advisor for the new USAID Maternal Child Health and Nutrition Activity (MCHN) in Uganda. I was just settling in, when Uganda reported its first case and instituted a...

COVID-19 has changed the way of life for people around the world, at the personal and professional levels. This is salient for those working on issues of gender integration, gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response, social inclusion, and women's...

I have been thinking a lot about social justice in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and persistent racial injustice here in the United States. As I think about what needs to be done, I am drawn to recollections of what women who look like me have done in the past to...

For Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we're excited to share a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to support digital accessibility of the information we produce for you, our partners and clients around the world. In this brief video, Communications Specialist...

This month’s EnCompass in Profile article features Senior Learning Specialist Ignatio (Iggy) Chiyaka. Iggy shares how his passion for human connection has built a global career around facilitation of learning and curriculum design.

The spread of the novel coronavirus and the resulting COVID-19 pandemic have affected many facets of global development and will continue to do so, even as response efforts take hold.

Today, I’d like to talk with you about male engagement. This valuable aspect of gender equality isn’t always featured in conversations about empowering women. Sexual and reproductive health, for example, is often treated as a women’s issue and women’s sole...

“Those virtual sessions were a lifeline to me,” Ana said, a catch in her voice, as one by one the course participants reflected on our time together. Ana, a technical leader for a major humanitarian organization, had been leading a critical emergency response in her...

In February, the Generating Results with Our Work (GROW) team supported USAID’s DRG Center in co-hosting the Global Action on Disability (GLAD) Network’s annual partners meeting with the U.S. Department of State. EnCompass manages the GROW activity…