UNIFEM Governance Program

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 develop and implement concrete, practical innovations in a set of pilot countries, including developing tools and learning processes 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 leads the work on growing a knowledge-and-advocacy network for improving service delivery to women. Grounded in in-country level practice, this network generates gender-sensitive governance assessments and engages with the best thinking and practice globally.

For more information on this project, please write to info@genderatwork.org

A meeting to conduct a baseline assessment of an organization progressed smoothly, but the the group was not energized by the process. Collecting baseline information is tedious at the best of times. But things changed when the group was asked how they felt about working with their facilitators. This simple question of feelings, often overlooked, transformed the entire session. The natural shy nature of the members soon dissolved. Both men and women members revealed the traditional nature of their community and the fact that women are not viewed as significant contributing members of society.

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