GTCoP - Community of Practice Training for Gender Equality

The Gender Training Institute (GTI) India works to facilitate women’s empowerment and social justice through capacity building and training-related activities. In an effort to mainstream gender in all aspects of development, GTI conducts long term training programs in parallel with stand-alone capacity building trainings, awareness generation programs, and continuous development of new training materials. It views training not as an end in itself, but as part of a larger process of learning and change. Grounded in the realities of the existing social fabric, GTI's trainings explore the gendered interactions taking place in broader areas of life such as media and culture, economy and politics. Participants develop leadership skills and the ability to address gender issues in the context of their own lives and that of larger society.

The Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) works to support the integration of gender issues in security sector institutions and security sector reform (SSR) processes. DCAF provides gender training resources; offers in-country advisory support and practical assistance programmes; develops and promotes democratic norms at the international and national levels; advocates for good practices; and conducts policy-related research to inform recommendations that advance effective democratic governance in the security sector. 

Genre en Action est un réseau international francophone créé en 2003. Ses objectifs sont de mobilisateur, informer et former une communauté francophone multidisciplinaire regroupant les acteurs et acteurs de différents «mondes» (associatif , Recherche, média, bailleurs, institutionnels, militant, politique, expertise ...) qui partagent une même ambition: l'égalité de genre pour toutes les femmes et tous les hommes. Genre en Action mène ses activités selon 4 axes: informateur, ancien, mobilisateur, changeur.

The GIZ International Training Centre hosts over 1,200 executives from all over the world each year who visit the Centre for training. The Centre has many years’ experience of running conferences and training seminars.GIZ also offers a host of training programmes around the world, such as its on-going global Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) project.

The GEF Gender Partnership provides partners of the Global Environment Facility with a space to share and exchange knowledge, learning and best practice as well as to discuss common issues, challenges and solutions that they face in their work. Since 2015, the partnership has worked to support GEF’s gender mainstreaming efforts by building a network of gender and environment specialists in GEF Agencies, and in the Multilateral Environmental Agreements for which the GEF serves as a financial mechanism.

The objective of Global Human Rights Leadership Training Institute (GHRLTI) is to train and support new generations of human rights educators, who will in turn establish such learning in their communities. It focuses on international human rights standards, current human rights issues and human rights learning strategies. The exploration of human rights principles and instruments, ongoing critical reflection and inquiry and the extensive sharing of experiences allows participants to strengthen their leadership capacity to engage in effective human rights learning.

HREA, the Global Human Rights Education and Training Centre, is an international non-governmental and non-profit organization that supports human rights education; the training of human rights defenders and professional groups; and the development of educational materials and programming. HREA is dedicated to quality education and training to promote understanding, attitudes and actions to protect human rights, including gender equality, and to foster the development of peaceable, free and just communities.

The Institute for Peace & Dialogue (IPD) is an organiser of annual international academic trainings and research programmes in the field of peacebuilding, conflict transformation, mediation, security, intercultural dialogue and human rights. IPD promote the prevention of potential conflicts between and within states, companies and communities by strengthening institutional dialogue, mediation and academic education with the participation of civil societies, INGOs, business and state institutions.

The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) undertakes gender research, knowledge sharing and teaching. It has played a central role in the conceptual shift from a 'women in development' to a 'gender and development' focus, as well as for critically bringing sexuality and masculinities into gender theory, research and practice.

El Instituto de la Mujer y para la Igualdad de Oportunidades tiene como finalidad primordial la promoción y el fomento de las condiciones que posibilitan la igualdad social de ambos sexos y la participación de la mujer en la vida política, cultural, económica y social, así como la prevención y disminución de toda clase de discriminación de las personas por razón de nacimiento, sexo, origen racial o étnico, religión o ideología, orientación o identidad sexual, edad, discapacidad o cualquier otra condición o circunstancia personal o social.