Gender-Transformative Programming & Women's Empowerment

Gender transformation is at the core of everything GWEDE does. We go beyond meeting the immediate needs of women and girls to transform the social norms, power relations, attitudes, institutions, and structural barriers that keep inequality in place.
Our approach engages women, girls, men, boys, families, communities, leaders, institutions, and market actors as partners in change creating the space for women and girls to strengthen their agency, exercise leadership, access resources, influence decisions, and challenge discriminatory norms.

Where we focus

Transforming gender norms engaging communities, men, boys, and traditional leaders to identify and challenge harmful attitudes and practices.

Transforming power and decision-making strengthening women's voice, agency, and leadership in households, communities, institutions, peace structures, and local governance.

Women's economic empowerment dismantling the barriers that limit women's access to resources, finance, markets, skills, technology, and entrepreneurship.

Gender-transformative market systems working with businesses, service providers, financial institutions, and producer organizations to build markets that recognize and respond to women's needs and economic potential.

Transformative peacebuilding advancing women's leadership in conflict prevention, reconciliation, and community decision-making.

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Our commitment

lasting change in the structures and systems that shape gender relations   communities where women and girls have real agency, men and boys actively support equality, institutions and markets become more inclusive, and social norms evolve toward dignity, shared responsibility, and meaningful participation.

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