Our Work

We guide and accompany organisations and institutions in their efforts to shift deep-rooted power dynamics, cultures, and norms, making gender equity and inclusion part of everyday practice—not just policy.

We cultivate transformative, inclusive, feminist leadership that recognises intersectional challenges and centres radical love, care, reflection and collective accountability across systems and sectors.

We design and use feminist approaches to Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (M.E.A.L.) to reveal what’s often invisible, valuing the process as well short and long-term impact.

We co-create relationships rooted in trust and solidarity—with allies, activists, funders, movements and institutions—collaborating on shared goals of systemic change and creating a more just and inclusive world.

We research, document, and reflect on lived experience, collective learning and practice to build and share feminist knowledge that travels across contexts and communities.

We collaborate with feminist movements for social justice, providing tools, creative spaces and collective strategising, to help sustain feminist organising and resist backlash.

At G@W at work, we start from the understanding that gender should be recognised as a spectrum that exists in intersection with other social markers, identities and structures (e.g., class, indigeneity, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity).

Across all our work—from facilitating Gender Action Learning processes, delivering training programmes and courses, and evaluating and measuring impact—we are collaborative and inclusive, expanding what and who traditionally constitutes as “data” and “stakeholders”, encouraging participation with our whole selves, and challenging traditional power structures.

We work in partnership with activists and researchers to bring together new knowledge on deep structures of inequality and discriminatory social norms, with innovative approaches and tools to transform them in organisations and communities.

We work across sectors and disciplines, at several levels—from local grassroots organisations to regional, international and UN partnerships. We believe strongly that it is at the community and grassroots level where lasting change is rooted, and all work is focused on strengthening the robustness of community-based and grassroots organisations.

Over 20+ years, we have developed Gender Action-Learning processes (GAL), addressing women’s rights and gender equality within civil society organisations, international organisations and private-sector settings.

Our GAL process is adaptable to across languages, cultures and contexts, enabling people of all backgrounds to work together and to learn from each other. The process is built on adult learning principles and values reflective spaces, recognising that reflection on both the self and on organisational practice is a key tool for learning and effective action.

Through the GAL process, we combine feminist thinking and practice with insights from organisational development, building internal cultures of inclusion and transforming cultural norms to support achieving gender equity and social justice.

With Emergent Learning, we focus on learning together, with reflection and reflexivity, adapting our approaches as we develop our understanding collectively.

The Gender at Work Framework highlights the relationships between gender equality, organisational change and the power dynamics within institutions and communities.

The Framework can be used to uncover opportunities and barriers to gender equality, to map a strategy for change, and to guide evaluative efforts to mark progress.

While the framework and its versatility are central to the essence of Gender at Work, our community is a creative one and we continue to expand on that work through a broad range of innovative tools and processes in order to provoke the change we want to make in the world.

In all of our work, our practice is based on principles and approaches anchored in feminisms emerging from many contexts.

We collaborate appreciatively with our partners.

We live and work in ways that value the whole person, nurturing the connections between mind-body-spirit, and head-heart-hand. In our lives and in our work, we engage in practices of self-care and care of others.

We seek transformation of non-inclusive systems, working at the individual and collective levels using analytical, systemic and innovative approaches, as well as intentionally advocating for gender equality, justice and human rights

We start where we are, and practise reflexive, reflective and learning approaches.

We value the diversity of voices and experiences and are inclusive to promote justice.

We recognise that people are positioned in different ways, which impact on social, economic and life conditions and opportunities. We understand the need to centre intersectional positionalities and identities in the pursuit of equity and justice.