Who We Work With

We develop the capacity of civil society organizations in India and South Africa to plan, implement and evaluate organizational change projects that improve the lives of women.

Recently, Gender at Work completed a program in partnership with Oxfam Canada in the Horn of Africa, where we worked with six diverse organizations from Sudan, Ethiopia and Somaliland.

Our Partners Want Change

We work with organizations already invested in leadership for change. Some are not explicitly feminist, and many are unclear about what change for gender equality might look like in their context, but they are all social change organizations with diverse mandates and of different scopes and sizes -- all wishing to transform gender inequality.

To date, over twenty organizations worked with us to develop substantial pathways for women’s voices, forging new areas of work and ways of working.

Some Partner Transformations

* Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), for example, has significantly empowered women’s leadership within its ranks, and developed a strong women’s program where one did not exist before.

* Justice and Women in South Africa has changed from being a welfare organization, providing services to women seeking maintenance payments, to adopting a women’s empowerment agenda that challenges traditional forms of patriarchy, including the power of chiefs in communities.

* Dalit Stree Shakti emerged from being a women’s wing of Dalit Bahujan Shramik Union (DBSU), a large Dalit union in Andhra Pradesh, India, to an autonomous national platform for Dalit women’s rights in India.