Since 2012, the Agency has begun integrating critical gender perspectives across all aspects of its programming to ensure all USAID initiatives work to eliminate gender disparities. To do so, USAID seeks to increase the capability of women and girls to realize their rights and determine their own life outcomes. Moreover, USAID supports additional programs to improve womens access to capital and markets, builds theirs skills in agriculture, and supports womens desire to own businesses. Others
Other major government development agencies with annual aid programmes of more than $10 billion include: GIZ (Germany), FCDO (United Kingdom), JICA (Japan), European Union and AFD (France). Non-Governmental Organizations
A multitude of non-governmental organizations operate in the field of extreme poverty, actively working to alleviate the poorest of the poor of their deprivation. To name but a few notable organizations: Save the Children, the Overseas Development Institute, Concern Worldwide, ONE, Trickle Up and Oxfam have all done a considerable amount of work in extreme poverty. Save the Children is the leading international organization dedicated to helping the worlds indigent children. In 2013, Save the Children reached over 143 million children through their work, including over 52 million children directly. Save the Children also recently released their own report titled "Getting to Zero", in which they argued the international community could feasibly do more than lift the worlds poor above $1.25/day. The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is a UK based think tank on international development and humanitarian issues.
According to Claude Levi-Strauss, the custom of couvade reinforces the institution of the family in some societies by "welding" together men and their wives and future children. See also
Couvade syndrome

References
External links
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Couvade" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 337–338. Couvade in Tribal Cultures