GTCoP - Community of Practice Training for Gender Equality

The Women’s Hope Education and Training Trust (WHEAT Trust) is a South African women's fund committed to grassroots women's empowerment for community development through education and training. WHEAT awards grants to civil society organisations and uniquely skilled women, who would otherwise not have access. By investing in education, training, and capacity building WHEAT is able to foster women’s leadership and to empower women to uplift themselves and their communities. 

The mission of the Women's Human Rights Education Institute (WHRI) is to cultivate transformative, feminist leadership in the area of CEDAW and women’s human rights by empowering participants with the knowledge and understanding of how they can use these tools to create change in their own contexts. The WHRI uniquely contextualizes the CEDAW Convention in both jurisprudence and practice, and offers in-depth study of how to apply its principles to diverse issues affecting women around the world. One of the four pillars of the institute is "Human Rights Education, Teaching, & Learning", involving education as a key component of human rights praxis; theoretical approaches to education and training on human rights; participatory exploration of training and educational techniques; and workshop planning and facilitation skills.

Women's Net works to advance gender equality and justice in South Africa through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), providing training and facilitating content dissemination and creation that supports women, girls, and women's and gender organisations to take control of their own content and ICT use.

Plan International works with and through local partners on sustainable development, with their Leadership and Capacity Development programs grounded in an appreciation for the expertise and culture of local institutions and the professionals who work there. Plan International's WomenLead Institute (WLI) works to enhance women’s confidence, capacity, and agency to fuel greater representation and impact of women in leadership positions across all sectors and institutions, with a focus on developing countries.

TWAS is an autonomous international organization that promotes scientific excellence for sustainable development in the Global South. The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) brings together three renowned global networks of academies of science and medicine, representing some 130 academies worldwide. It supports programmes on scientific capacity-building, education and communication; leads efforts to expand international science cooperation; and promotes the engagement of women and young scientists. 

The World Bank is a source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries/ It works with public- and private-sector clients to close gaps between men and women globally for lasting impact in tackling poverty and driving sustainable economic growth that benefits all. Its Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality (UFGE) is a multi-donor trust fund dedicated to strengthening awareness, knowledge, and capacity for gender-informed policy-making. 

The World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. In pursuit of a vision of the world in which every man, woman and child has access at all times to the food needed for an active and healthy life, WFP delivers skills training to beneficiaries and ensures that staff members develop the capacity to mainstream gender in their work, including carrying out gender analyses. 

The World Young Women’s Christian Association (World YWCA) is a global network working for women’s empowerment, leadership and rights in more than 120 countries and 20,000 communities around the world. The YWCA International Leadership Academy for, and led by, young women and girls, focuses on training, mobilising and empowering young women and girls to improve their lives and those of their communities, while influencing global and regional policy, such as the post-2015 development agenda. Read the full fact sheet here.

Yellow Window is an Antwerp-based management that specilises in product design, service design and policy design, with especially long-standing expertise in training and capacity development. Its approach privileges user-centred approaches, mobilising methodologies that combine observation, analysis and creativity. One of Yellow Window's training initiatives is featured as a good practice in the UN Women Training Centre's Compendium of Good Practices in Training for Gender Equality.

The Zambia National Women's Lobby (ZNWL) promotes women representation and participation in decision making at all levels through advocacy, lobbying and capacity building for women in Zambia, as well as engaging men and boys. Its "Capacity Building of Members" programme improves the capacity of ZNWL members so as to facilitate the participation and representation of women and girls in decision making; its "Women’s Participation and Representation"  programme fosters the capacity of women to take up leadership positions in different political and socio-economic fields through training and mentorship;  and its "Institutional Capacity Building" advances institutional capacity building as the vehicle for delivering quality services in all provincial centres, catchment areas and wider society.