Gender Equality
At KIT Institute, our gender specialists help you make sense of gender for your organisation and development programmes. Together, we maximise the impact of your gender interventions and bring positive and equitable change to people’s everyday lives.
Our approach is practical and grounded in knowledge
KIT’s team of gender specialists work on individual programmes to enhance women’s empowerment and rights. The team also helps design ways to include equal rights and opportunities for men and women in longer-term agriculture, finance and health initiatives and organisations. Drawing on 25 years of diverse experience in gender work in international development, we bring solid gender expertise to development problems. Our team includes specialists in gender equality, women’s rights and empowerment, agriculture and natural resource management, financial inclusion and health. In addition to our gender expertise, we bring rich experience in organisational change management, capacity development and learning, knowledge management and applied research.
We leave no one behind
Achieving gender equality and realising women and girls’ empowerment and rights are critical elements of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG 5 is central to our work, and gender also features strongly as a theme cutting across all other SDGs. Our work is strongly inspired by and seeks to contribute to the Leaving No One Behind agenda. This agenda calls for deeper understanding and more efforts to contribute to meaningful change for groups that are currently invisible or excluded. This requires an intentional focus on women and girls, and on the marginalized and excluded groups among them.
To this end, we offer a range of services to support organisations in making sense of gender across programmes, projects and institutionally. Key to our approach is to think and act together with you to create a space that stimulates critical reflection and applied learning. Our work is tailor-made to your organisation and sector.
Advancing Gender Equality, Women's Empowerment and Feminist Principles
Our Services
- At KIT, we facilitate and engage in gender analysis and critical reflection on gender-specific themes. These include empowerment, leadership, gender transformative change, and women and girls’ rights. We also focus on gender integration in a variety of sectors.
- Our team supports the development of gender policies and strategies, grounded in organisational gender assessments or gender audits.
- We advise and support technical specialists and management in figuring out what gender equality and empowerment mean for their work and in all aspects of the organisation.
- Our specialists engage in and facilitate organisational and individual capacity building, training and coaching, mostly in medium- to long-term trajectories. Our gender training and coaching uses an adult-learning approach and is tailored to the specific sectors/fields of the partner.
- We also conduct and facilitate applied and action research grounded in sound gender analysis, and as such, with our partners, generate and strengthen gender knowledge.
- Finally, we develop, test and use sound measures of gender equality and women and girls’ empowerment. Preferably, this takes place by combining quantitative techniques and participatory approaches.
KIT Institute Gender Strategy
Promoting the development and implementation of approaches that advance gender equality is a pillar of KIT Institute’s knowledge work and overall strategy.
Gender Equality Topics
Feminist Edge
Feminist Edge is a Professional Development Programme for Gender Trainers. It focusses on the practice and theory of gender training. Interested?
Our Gender Equality Team
Publications
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Strengthening Feminist Futures
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Case Study
Feminist movements around the world comprise diverse actors and stakeholders, ranging from global organizations to local grassroots groups. Within this vibrant ecosystem, women’s funds play a crucial role as feminist philanthropic organizations. Different from women’s organizations, the primary purpose of women’s funds is to mobilize resources rather than providing direct services and programmes. Women’s funds […]
- Year of publication
- Februari 2025
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Increasing visibility and impact in the face of insecurity
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Case Study
This case study tells the story of the women’s fund Fonds pour les Femmes Congolaises (FFC), a national feminist fund working across the Democratic Republic of Congo, with offices in Goma, Kalemie, and Kinshasa. A myriad of challenges hamper the fund’s field work and presence, including national and regional contexts of insecurity and violence, an […]
- Year of publication
- March 2025
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Transformational institutional strengthening through collaborative learnings on financial resilience
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Case Study
This case study shares the story and effects of funding collaboration on the financial resilience of two women’s funds: Women’s Fund Tanzaniaand Women’s Fund Z (WFZ), who joined to form the Feminist Financial Resilience group. The two funds collaborated with the aim of enhancing their financial resilience through a holistic approach, which they define as […]
- Year of publication
- March 2025
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