About WID
The Office of Women in Development was established in 1974
to help ensure that women participate fully and benefit equally
from U.S. development assistance programs.
The Office of Women in Development (EGAT/WID) has a critical
role in the Agency as the central point of technical leadership
and expertise on gender issues in social, economic and political
development. It provides: technical leadership on gender-related
issues within USAID and the wider development community; support
to field missions; identification of new and emerging gender-related
issues and development of multi-disciplinary approaches through
which to address them; and proactive actions to facilitate
and promote greater responsibility for, and institutionalization
of, gender considerations throughout the Agency.
The WID Office supports activities in the following areas:
Gender Integration
Economic Growth
Education
Legal Rights
Trafficking
in Persons
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