As vice president, she oversees ICRW's portfolios in economic development, gender, violence and rights, gender and HIV and gender, stigma and discrimination.
Thus with multinational and transnational corporations (such as LG, Samsung, Pepsi, and McDonalds), came the multinational and transnational NGOs (such as MSF, FXB, Pathfinder International, Engender Health, McArthur Foundation, ICRW, HIVOS, and in recent years Bill Gates, International HIV/AIDS alliance, Packard Foundation and about a hundred others).
The effort represents one of ICRW's latest endeavors in a nearly 20-year commitment to documenting the causes and consequences of child marriage and devising solutions to prevent it.
In collaboration with partner organisations, ICRW led the development of the evaluation used in the project and a customised monitoring and information system.
In the 2011 ICRW report, Solutions to End Child Marriage: What the Evidence Shows, we recommend program strategies that are proving most effective in delaying the age of marriage.
That is exactly why I was honoured to host the International Center for Research on Women's (ICRW) Champions of Change award ceremony in my home.
ICRW found that on average, girls in TESFA had their first sexual experience at 13. Enana was helping her in-laws prepare dinner one night when her mother-in-law told her she would be staying with her husband that evening.
ICRW, which is helping evaluate the project's effectiveness in providing 'youth friendly' health services to adolescents, is placing renewed emphasis on the importance of working with girls at this vulnerable age.
Hard work of researchers "As women and girls make up more and more of those infected and impacted by HIV, it is critical that women play a central role in developing our understanding of this disease," said ICRW President Geeta Rao Gupta.
We're seeing this in many of our programs like Tostan, Promundo, Family Violence Prevention Fund, ICRW India and PATH.
