Reimagining technical assistance over coffee, episode 6: Gender equality by OPMglobal published on 2021-07-20T15:22:54Z Reimagining technical assistance - Localising aid. The final episode in this six-part series of informal conversations with experienced practitioners and development partners on the practicalities for delivering effective technical assistance, the day-to-day challenges for doing things differently, and suggestions drawn from their own experiences. In this episode, we discuss how to design, implement and evaluate programmes that are intentional in advancing gender equality, with Johanna Riha. We explore: • What could development practitioners do in their day-to-day work to be more intentional about advancing gender equality? • What works in advancing gender in health programmes? • What does an effective organisational gender architecture look like? • What are some of the challenges to having relevant actors speaking with a common voice on gender and equality, and engaging towards a common objective? What are the practical solutions? • What is the Gender and Health Hub, how will it work, and what sort of information development practitioners should expect to be able to access? Johanna Riha is a Research Fellow at the United Nations University’s International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) working in the Gender and Health Policy Hub. She is an epidemiologist with close to ten years of experience in health policy and public health research, largely focusing on Africa.