Yeva Avakyan POLICY SEMINAR Addressing gender and social barriers to resilience: Measuring and leveraging household decision making for resilience Co-Organized by IFPRI and Mercy Corps JUN 27, 2018 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT

1. Yeva Avakyan
Associate Vice
President,
an integrated approach
to addressing livelihoods,
agriculture and health
LAHIA

2. Context

3. Context
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• Food & Nutrition
• Gender Inequality
• Early Childbearing
• Child Marriage

4. Areas of focus
1. Improved nutritional status of children under 5 & pregnant and
lactating women
2. Increased access to food by vulnerable households
3. Reduced vulnerability to food security shocks
4. Improved meaningful participation by women in community-
level decision-making
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5. Integrated Approach
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Triad of Health &
Nutrition Volunteers
Women’s Savings &
Loan Groups
Husbands’ Schools

6. Husbands’ Schools
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• Improve men’s ability to engage in
dialogue
• Promote men’s equitable
participation in the household
• Improve men’s knowledge of
sexual and reproductive health
• Mobilize men as agents of change

7. Impact
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• Positive health outcomes
• Joint decision-making
• Adoption of health-seeking
behaviors
• Sharing of household
responsibilities and
caregiving by men
• Increased control over
resources by women
• Improved communication

9. an integrated approach
Yeva Avakyan, Associate Vice President, Gender Equality
LAHIAto addressing livelihoods,
agriculture, and health