Governments & Multilateral Organizations
Translating gender equality commitments into actionable policy, empowered leaders, stronger public institutions, and measurable results.
Governments and multilateral organizations are navigating increasingly complex challenges in the pursuit of greater gender justice, from shifting political contexts to inconsistent and insufficient resourcing. While global commitments to gender equality are highly visible and widely endorsed, turning these commitments into meaningful action remains a challenge. Implementation is often constrained by capacity gaps, limited data, fragmented systems, and competing priorities. In response, there is a growing demand for approaches that are more practical, scalable, and grounded in real-world implementation that can bridge the gap between ambition and impact.
What We Do
We partner with national and subnational governments, ministries, multilateral agencies, and public institutions to build the capacity, strategies and evidence needed to deliver on gender equality commitments.
Research & Evidence
Generate and apply quality quantitative and qualitative data to support and promote gender equality processes and initiatives.
Identify gender-related gaps, barriers, and entry points most relevant to your policy priorities, sector mandates, and country context
Advise on how to strengthen national and subnational data systems to better capture gender-disaggregated outcomes over time
Advisory & Capacity Building
Support Policy to Implementation Solutions that translate gender equality commitments into actionable, scalable implementation plans
Design and deliver gender integration trainings and capacity-building programs tailored to ministry teams, civil servants, and public sector leaders across levels and sectors
Advise on the design of gender-responsive policies, legislation, regulatory frameworks, and health systems
Strategy Development
Design or advise on monitoring, evaluation, and learning frameworks that capture meaningful gender-related policy and programmatic change
Advise on gender-sensitive indicators and evaluation approaches that meet international reporting standards while remaining grounded in national context
Inclusive Leadership
Deliver a global model for leadership capacity strengthening that is deeply grounded in context, rooted in experience, and designed to drive measurable impact
Advise on how to align internal institutional practices with the gender equality commitments that governments champion externally
Support efforts to strengthen women’s representation in public leadership positions
Impact Storytelling & MEL
Apply a gender equality lens to the design or refresh of sector-specific national strategies, plans, and institutional frameworks
Design and facilitate gender equality strategy development processes through targeted engagement, policy and program alignment, and completed comprehensive strategic plans.
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