About MAGE
The Monitoring and Action for Gender and Equity (MAGE) project is a partnership between Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF).
GFF is a country-led partnership, hosted at the World Bank, that fights poverty and inequity by advancing the health and rights of women, children and adolescents. It does this by supporting countries to strengthen health systems and improve access to care through prioritized plans, aligned public and private financing, and policy reform.
MAGE will advance the capacity and execution of gender- and equity-intentional monitoring and evaluation and data use to improve gender equality and Reproductive Maternal, Newborn, Children, and Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAH-N) outcomes for women, children, and adolescents in GFF partner countries.
This includes acting on GFF’s recently updated 2021-2025 strategy, and the Roadmap for Advancing Gender Equality to improve health outcomes in RMNCAH-N, specifically focusing on enhancing the analytical and technical support that links gender equality and health and wellbeing, which in turn supports investments in gender- and equity-intentional monitoring and data systems.
Through MAGE, the JHU-GFF partnership works to advance this ambition though five focus areas:
- Advance GFF and country stakeholders’ efforts to integrate gender and equity in prioritized reforms, financing, and M&E results in key GFF countries.
- Support the GFF secretariat and country teams to ensure that gender and equity are core to results tracking, consolidation, reporting, and profiling using the most robust data available—and that these results are grounded in learning from existing gender and health frameworks, theories of change, and indicators relevant to RMNCAH.
- Support analytics, capacity building, guidance and tools on gender and equity reforms and M&E, especially those related to maternal health, SRHR, adolescent health, and on linkage to other sectors such as social protection, education, or governance.
- Support gender and M&E trainings for country counterparts and for GFF staff, especially in conjunction with ongoing efforts through existing GFF partnerships such as with Countdown, Track20, Gavi, and the Global Fund.
- Collaborate on strategic engagement, partnerships, publication, and visibility for gender, M&E and SRHR results and measurement to further enhance technical excellence, policy action, and resource allocation for these efforts.
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GFF Website
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GFF Data Portal
The GFF Data Portal provides a platform for assessing RMNCAH-N for 36 GFF partner countries. It provides data on RMNCAH-N, health systems, and financing to facilitate decision-making on policy, planning, and implementation purposes. The portal contains core output, outcome, and impact RMNCAH-N indicators that are collected by governments and development partners through existing surveys and reporting systems. Gender equality data is included under key themes.
GFF Knowledge and Learning Portal
The GFF Knowledge and Learning Portal provides access to actionable knowledge and tools from a variety of sources.