We transform gender equality commitments into measurable results.

From research and strategy to leadership development and impact measurement, our five integrated service areas meet organizations wherever they are, and help them go further, faster.

✦ How We Make An Impact

Advancing gender equality is both the right thing to do and the smart thing to do.

GCfGE leverages our vast sectoral and geographic expertise to create custom solutions that build stronger programs, shift organizational culture, increase philanthropic effectiveness, and deliver better outcomes for communities around the world. 

✦ Our Services

Our work spans five integrated service areas:

Research & Evidence

Tackling gender inequality begins with strong evidence. We help organizations understand where gender disparities exist, what drives them, and which interventions are most likely to improve outcomes. Through research, landscape analyses, evidence syntheses, and mixed-methods studies, we identify the structural, social, and institutional factors shaping those outcomes. We translate those findings into practical recommendations that strengthen funding decisions, program design, policy development, and implementation. From rapid evidence reviews and learning agendas to research tools and issue briefs, we equip partners to apply research in ways that improve programs and maximize impact.

Every engagement is tailored to our partners' priorities and operating context. By combining global evidence with local knowledge, we develop recommendations that are relevant, feasible, and designed to strengthen both sectoral outcomes and gender equality.

Strategy Development

From defining a theory of change to prioritizing the highest-leverage interventions, we help organizations build strategies that are equitable, ambitious, realistic, and built to last. We work alongside partners to identify where addressing gender-related barriers and opportunities can strengthen their broader objectives, then help translate those opportunities into clear, evidence-based strategies.

Our support spans every stage of strategy development, from defining theories of change and identifying high-leverage investment opportunities to developing key performance indicators that can be tracked across programs. We also help organizations refine their strategies as new evidence emerges and priorities evolve. The result is a clear strategic direction that helps organizations focus resources where they can achieve the greatest impact for both gender equality and their broader objectives.

Advisory & Capacity Building

Every organization starts from a different place and faces different challenges advancing gender equality goals. Our advisory support is designed to meet partners where they are, providing practical, on-demand expertise that strengthens projects, programs, investments, and policies from concept through implementation.

We partner closely with teams to identify opportunities for stronger gender integration, troubleshoot implementation challenges, review program materials and research tools, strengthen monitoring systems, and provide recommendations throughout the project lifecycle. Our support is shaped by each organization's goals, capacity, and operating environment and is intended to complement the expertise already within teams.

We also help organizations build the expertise to carry this work forward. Through workshops, technical assistance, coaching, and collaborative problem-solving, we equip teams with the tools and experience to integrate gender equality more effectively in their day-to-day work.

Impact Storytelling & MLE

Understanding whether programs are making a difference requires measuring more than outputs. We help organizations design monitoring, learning, and evaluation systems that capture changes in areas such as decision-making, agency, inclusion, access to resources, and institutional practices.

Our team develops practical measurement frameworks, indicators, data collection tools, learning agendas, and evaluation approaches that generate useful evidence while remaining feasible to implement. We work with partners to identify the information that matters most, ensuring data collected can inform decisions, improve programs, and demonstrate results.

We also help organizations communicate what they've learned. We synthesize evidence into products that make complex findings accessible to diverse audiences, helping partners explain what changed, why it mattered, and what it means for future action.

Inclusive Leadership

Advancing gender equality requires leaders who can turn commitment into action. Through our Public Leadership for Gender Equality (PL4GE) program and other leadership initiatives, we help participants build the skills to lead organizational change, build effective partnerships, and strengthen the institutions in which they work.

Our approach draws on public leadership, transformative leadership, and feminist leadership to help leaders examine power, make more inclusive decisions, build effective partnerships, and foster collaboration across diverse stakeholders. We go beyond individual leadership development to equip leaders with the skills needed to strengthen the systems and institutions in which they work.

Whether working with governments or NGOs we design tailored learning experiences that combine evidence, coaching, facilitated dialogue, and practical application. Participants leave with practical approaches for integrating gender equality into decision-making, strengthening their organizations, and leading institutional change.

We didn’t just get stronger programming out of it, our team came away better equipped to lead this work going forward.

What stood out about working with GCfGE was how quickly they got up to speed on our context.

They brought serious expertise in gender equality, but they also took the time to understand our team, our constraints, and where we were trying to go. That combination meant the work stuck.

— Graham Snead, Former Gates Foundation Program Officer 

✦ Our expertise

We've worked across a wide range of health and development sectors worldwide.

The list below captures some of our most common areas. If your needs aren’t represented here, don't hesitate to get in touch. We regularly bring on expertise for new and niche areas of work.

    • Agricultural Development

    • Agricultural Value Chains

    • Crop & Livestock R&D

    • Extension Services

    • Livestock

    • Land Rights & Natural Resource Governance

    • Nutrition & Food Systems

    • Primary Health Care

    • Sexual & Reproductive Health

    • Maternal, Newborn & Child Health

    • Immunization & Vaccines

    • Infectious Diseases

    • Health Supply Chains

    • Climate Change

    • Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)

    • Artificial Intelligence

    • Digital Infrastructure & Connectivity

    • Digital ID

    • Data Exchange Systems

    • Financial Inclusion

    • Social Protection

    • Women's Entrepreneurship & Livelihoods

    • Development Policy & Finance

    • Public Policy

    • Humanitarian & Emergency Response

    • Multilateral Engagement

    • Workforce Development

    • Women's Leadership

    • Skills Development

    • Transformative Leadership

    • Power, Privilege & Structural Inequality

    • Feminist Leadership in Changing/Complex Contexts

    • Gender-Responsive Institutions & Policy

Let’s make an impact together.

Contact us to learn how we can improve your team’s results and move the needle on gender equality.

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