GAVI
The GAVI Alliance (formerly the "Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation") is a public-private global health partnership committed to increasing access to immunisation in poor countries. The Alliance brings together developing country and donor governments, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.
GBV
Gender-based violence (GBV) is any act that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women, girls, boys, men, gay men and other men who have sex with men and transgender people, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or private life.
Gender
Gender are the economic, social and cultural attributes and opportunities associated with being male or female in a particular point in time.
Gender equality
Sociocultural norms, values, behaviour and attitudes that have implications whether, and to what extent, women and men have equal status in society, and enjoy the same rights, opportunities and choices. However, CEDAW accords that special temporary measures (or affirmative action) should be adopted in favour of women when they are in a situation of inequality.
Gender equity
Fairness and justice in allocation of resources, and in women's and men's access to and control over these resources.
Gender identity
Gender identity refers to a person's deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth. It includes both the personal sense of the body, which may involve, if freely chosen, modification of bodily appearance or function by medical, surgical, or other means, and other expressions of gender, including dress, speech, and mannerisms.
Gender mainstreaming
The process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned actions, legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels. It is a strategy for making women's and men's concerns and experiences an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in all political, economic and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally. The ultimate goal is to achieve gender equality. Effective gender mainstreaming requires investment in capacity- and capability-building.
GNP+
Global Network of People Living with HIV.
Gamete
Sperm or egg cell.
Gender roles
The socially constructed role of women and men, and the social meaning that societies and communities give to women's and men's biological differences. These roles are influenced by political, economic, cultural, social, religious, ideological and environmental factors and may vary and are changeable over time, as well as from one culture, society and community to another.
Gender Sensitive
Recognition of gender issues and concerns arising from asymmetrical gender relations and gender-based differences in needs and priorities of women and men Also referred to as looking through a ‘gender lens'.
GIS
Geographic Information System.
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, established in 2001, is an independent public–private partnership. The purpose of the Global Fund is to attract, manage, and disburse additional resources to make a sustainable and significant contribution to mitigate the impact caused by HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria in countries in need, while contributing to poverty reduction as part of the Millennium Development Goals. When citing in text spell out the title in full at first usage and thereafter refer to the Global Fund, not the abbreviation GFATM. See www.theglobalfund.org.
GPRHCS
UNFPA developed the Global Programme for Reproductive Health Commodity Security (GPRHCS) to help countries plan for their own needs in this arena. The Global Programme acts as a catalyst to national action to prioritize and mainstream reproductive health commodity security into national health policies, programmes, budgets and plans. As a result, countries are beginning to move towards more predictable, planned and sustainable country-driven approaches to securing essential supplies and ensuring their use.
Gross migration
The sum of in-migrants and out-migrants, or the number of migrant entries and migrant exits. Represents the total number of migration movements.
Gross Reproduction Rate
The Total Fertility Rate divided by 1 plus the sex ratio, i.e. the average number of live-born girls that a woman will have during her life time.
Growth Rate
The growth rate refers to the number of people added to (or subtracted from) a population in a given year due to natural increase and net migration. It is expressed as a percentage of the population at the beginning of the time period.
