Program Overview

Programs Overview

Organizational Diagnosis & Strategic Planning

  • Analyze an organization’s culture, policies and leadership using participatory processes to generate ownership and collective energy for change
  • Uncover and examine an organization’s theory of change
  • Uncover cultural norms that inhibit women’s (and other marginalized) voices, participation and power in agenda setting; build value systems that prioritize social inclusion and gender equality
  • Build a vision and path with key stakeholders towards gender equality within an organization’s mission and goals
  • Facilitate practical changes that have a direct, positive impact on the organization and/or the communities it serves

Program Development

  •  Build programs that prioritize women’s empowerment and gender-equality outcomes
  •  Build gender-sensitive analytical tools into program and project planning, implementation and evaluation
  •  Build accountability systems and processes that track gender-equality outcomes

Capacity Building

  • Strengthen women’s voices within organizations and in their program
  • Support leadership capacity for dialogue, conflict management, priority setting and coherence building
  • Facilitate re-energizing and processes to address activist burnout

Evaluation and Learning

  • Build gender-sensitive organizational and program monitoring and evaluation systems and processes
  • Analyze lessons learned from organizational practices and outcomes
  • Facilitate peer learning on gender-biased organizational values, behaviours, practices and programs, as well as facilitate how to change them

Knowledge Building and Management

  • Develop mechanisms and processes to facilitate learning from practice/interventions by organizations and across organizations
  • Develop new intervention theories and methodologies by examining our own practice and other successful change efforts
  • Work with key decision makers in related social justice/development/rights communities to integrate this new knowledge into their analyses, strategies and practice


To discuss our programs further, we invite you to contact us at info@genderatwork.com