1.How can a gender lens enhance maternal and child health social enterprises in Africa?

This project is implemented by Building Resources Across Communities (BRAC) International in collaboration with Cape Breton University in Canada and the Ministry of Health in Uganda.

Community health workers can provide support to universal health coverage for underserved communities. Global guidance has identified that gender considerations need to be more fully understood in order to optimize the role and work undertaken by community health workers. Social enterprise-based approaches have the potential not only to improve maternal and child health services but also to ensure women community health workers are empowered in their role.

This project addresses this gap by exploring how gender-informed considerations can play an important role in how social enterprises more fully support community health workers in Uganda and Kenya. Further, analysis of mechanisms that promote gender equality in social enterprises is explored in order to improve the health care delivered to vulnerable communities.