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This article is a contribution to a blog series on how Partners Agriculture and Food Security programs contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals . This week’s blog highlights what Farmer-to-Farmer volunteers have been doing towards SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Around the world, women and girls play a crucial role in creating sustainable livelihoods for themselves and their families. However, minimal access to land, credit, training, and leadership positions due to gender-based inequities all too often limits their economic opportunities. For our USAID-funded Farmer-to-Farmer and Haiti Nutrition Security programs, family spending dynamics play a crucial role in livelihood development. A growing body of research shows that when women have control of familial income, they invest more money in their children’s education, health care, and overall wellbeing. Not only does this dynamic produce positive health and wellness outcomes, but it elevates ...

As Partners of the Americas' Haiti Nutrition Security Program enters its final closeout phase, we're gathering important statistics on the impact of NSP's care groups model.  The program used a family-centered approach that increased local capacity in nutrition to influence behavior change. In doing so, Partners aimed to  build social capital while preventing malnutrition, promoting best hygiene practices, and supporting malnourished children throughout Haitian communities. To read more about NSP and the structure of the care groups model, see our previous program features .