Global Partners

Along with our civil society organization partners, we also work with a range of international development agencies, including bi-lateral and multi-lateral donors, and international NGOs, to build and apply knowledge of institutional change for gender equality, to create policy and programming, thereby expanding the space for positive action on gender equality and women’s rights.

UNIFEM: Gender at Work is partnering with UNIFEM in a five-year program entitled Gender and Democratic Governance in Development: Delivering Basic Services for Women, supported by the Government of Norway. Focused on institutional change for gender equality, this program aims to build a body of knowledge, practical programming experience and methodologies and tools to improve the governance of the delivery of public goods and services to women. Specifically, the program will develop and implement concrete, practical innovations (including developing tools and learning processes) in a set of pilot countries to improve service delivery to women, to build enhanced capacity of women to engage in and influence changes in institutional delivery systems and to promote evidence-based organizational change for gender equality in service delivery. Gender at Work in particular will lead the work on growing a knowledge and advocacy network on improving service delivery to women that is grounded in country-level practice that generates gender-sensitive governance assessments and that engages with the best thinking and practice globally.

UNICEF and UNIFEM: Gender at Work is partnering with these organizations to implement strong gender-equality projects, and to serve as a pilot for successful work by other countries. This initiative involves working with three UN country teams, using an action-learning process over the course of two years. The specific objective is to highlight how the process of collaboration between UN system partners works, how it can be strengthened, what is feasible and possible and where there is space for innovation to happen. These innovations are meant to help the UN deliver better on gender equality on the ground, but also to identify how HQ support mechanisms need to be strengthened to help the country teams implement cohesive and effective women’s empowerment and gender-equality programs.

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC): In early 2008, Gender at Work carried out gender mainstreaming evaluation of SDC. Satisfied with our work, SDC invited one of Gender at Work’s Senior Associates to assist with integrating gender equality into their newly restructured organization at headquarters and in the Cuba country program.

Aga Khan Foundation Canada: Gender at Work is partnering with Aga Khan Foundation Canada partners in Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar and Uganda. Over the course of 2009, we have been strengthening understanding and action-learning approaches to gender equality within a wide range of organizations, from the Aga Khan Foundation in Kenya, to CSOs in Zanzibar. The main objective of this partnership is to catalyze and assist in facilitating a change process in eight development organizations in order to deepen their own capacity for improving gender relationships and power inequalities, both within their organization and in their programmatic work. The self-selected organizations are:

  • Madras Resource Centre, Zanzibar
  • Madras Resource Centre, Tanzania
  • Madras Resource Centre, Kenya
  • Education for Marginalized Children, Kenya (EMACK)
  • NGO Resource Centre, Zanzibar
  • Coastal Rural Support Program- Kenya (CRSP-K)
  • Community Health Department
  • AKF-East Africa

The above organizations are currently in the process of carrying out their organization-specific change projects. They will meet again in November to share ongoing learning, and to document their experiences to date.

Other Global partners include

  • Oxfam Novib
  • United Nations Development Program
  • United Nations Population Fund
  • Women’s Environment and Development Organization
  • Action Aid International

 

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