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Equitable Development in Action: WI-HER’s Support of the END Fund

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WI-HER’s Dr. Taroub Harb Faramand supports END Fund staff as they think through how they can build a more inclusive approach to their work.

The END Fund mobilizes resources for neglected tropical disease (NTD) programming through private, philanthropic sources and strategic investments and collaborates with governments, NGOs, and pharmaceutical and academic partners. In engaging with WI-HER, the END Fund is proactively creating and sustaining an inclusive culture that reflects the organization’s values, enhances cultural understanding, and strengthens the quality of gender equity and social inclusion (GESI)-integrated NTD approaches and activities.

To accomplish this, WI-HER is supporting END Fund in efforts to be more intentional in how it integrates GESI in its programming and its own organizational culture through multiple initiatives, including workshops, trainings, and the development, or adaptation, and implementation of practical tools, checklists, and other approaches to operationalize GESI across programs. For example, WI-HER:

  • Using the iDARE methodology, trained the END Fund’s technical team on GESI integration in NTD programming, which then contributed to the development of strategies, tools, and Action Plans.
  • Created country-specific recommendations for action—including for Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Burkina Faso, Senegal, and the DRC—to reach the most marginalized in END Fund’s goal to ‘Leave No One Behind’ in NTD programming.
  • Built on country-specific recommendations in South Sudan through the Accelerate Resilient, Innovative, and Sustainable Elimination of NTDs (ARISE) Fund to support the Ministry of Health and implementing partners to conduct GESI assessments in hard-to-reach counties in support of NTD treatment goals.
  • Bolstered END Fund’s efforts to identify and operationalize areas for workplace and team growth and solutions, supporting staff to collaboratively shape a collective organizational ethos.

Through this holistic partnership, the END Fund is bringing a more inclusive approach and lens to their internal operations and global NTD programming. As a result, END Fund is making a difference in how NTD programming is done, integrating GESI approaches to equitably control and eliminate the most prevalent neglected tropical diseases.

Through trainings, and other initiatives, WI-HER supports the END Fund in being more intentional in how it considers and integrates gender equity and social inclusion.
Through trainings, and other initiatives, WI-HER supports the END Fund in being more intentional in how it considers and integrates gender equity and social inclusion.
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