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The Smash Strategy partners have decades of collective experience, working both internationally and domestically on women’s political empowerment and leadership, economic and development policy, sustainability and advocacy.

Gender Advisors Key to Effective Policy

The proposed revisions to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Policy have received a lot of attention since being released for public comment in mid-August. The revisions raise many issues, one of which is the important role that gender advisors play at USAID missions, regional missions, and country offices as well as DC-based offices and bureaus. Gender advisors are a critical bridge to what is happening on the ground and important to informing an effective foreign policy and national security policy.

Taking Steps Toward Gender Equality

Concrete steps Members of Congress and their staffs can take to promote gender inequality.

Foreign policy congressional committees need to call more women experts

It is imperative that those who make U.S. foreign policy reflect who we are as Americans. Today, most foreign policy and national security decisions are made in centralized and closely held processes. This is true across institutions. We recently reviewed the list of experts called to testify in Congress on foreign policy from 2017-2020 and found that most of them are men.

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