GTCoP - Community of Practice Training for Gender Equality

The New Field Foundation works with women and their families who are using peaceful and creative ways to overcome poverty, violence and injustice in their communities. New Field supports rural women's organizations to advance their rights, knowledge and resources in peaceful and creative ways, including through capacity development initiatives. 

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) leads and coordinates international action to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees worldwide. It works to ease the particular struggles experienced by women and girls, ensuring safe shelters that offer privacy, assistance with construction or maintenance, fair food distribution systems and separate sanitation facilities. UNHCR also manages programmes that help women to improve their leadership skills through capacity development, as well as to overcome barriers to education, and access opportunities.

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is a major regional human rights body that promotes democratic elections, respect for human rights, tolerance and non-discrimination, and the rule of law. Through gender equality training for parliamentarians, civil society and security sector personnel, and by encouraging women’s recruitment and promotion within the security ranks, ODIHR supports effective institutions, policies and programmes that reflect the needs and interests of both men and women.

ODI is Britain's leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues. Our mission is to inspire and inform policy and practice which lead to the reduction of poverty, the alleviation of suffering and the achievement of sustainable livelihoods in developing countries.

Oxfam works with partners and with communities to overcome poverty. Their vision of gender justice is that more women will gain power over their lives and no longer live in poverty, and that both men and women will challenge inequalities and benefit from less restrictive gender roles. Oxfam is committed to building the capacity of staff and partners to focus on gender justice and women's rights as well as ensuring gender is mainstreamed in all policies, structures and practices.

PACT’s capacity development approach helps men and women around the world build local solutions to become heard and vibrant, whether that means overcoming health challenges, influencing their government, earning a dignified living or benefiting from the sustainable use of natural resources around them. PACT works on the ground in nearly 40 countries to improve the lives of those who are challenged by poverty and marginalization.

PATH is an international nonprofit organization that creates sustainable, culturally relevant solutions, enabling communities worldwide to break longstanding cycles of poor health. PATH’s 10-part advocacy strategy seeks to strengthen the advocacy capacity of local organizations and individuals - both women and men - to build champions for health.

The People's Decade of Human Rights Education (PDHRE) is a non-profit international organization that works with its network of affiliates - primarily women's and social justice organizations - to develop and advance pedagogies for human rights education relevant to people's daily lives in the context of their struggles for social and economic justice and democracy. PDHRE is dedicated to publishing and disseminating demand-driven human rights training manuals and teaching materials, and otherwise servicing grassroots and community groups engaged in a creative, contextualized process of human rights learning, reflection, and action. 

Promundo is an international non-governmental organisation that works to transform harmful gender norms and unequal power dynamics. It is guided by a mission to “promote gender equality and prevent violence by engaging men and boys in partnership with women and girls”. including through training and capacity development. Three of Promundo's training initiatives - its PEGE programme in Brazil's education sector, its initiative with UNFPA in Central Asia and Eastern Europe, and its capacity development work with WorldFish in Zambia and Cambodia, are featured as good practices in the UN Women Training Centre's Compendium of Good Practices in Training for Gender Equality.

Raising Voices is a nonprofit organization working toward the prevention of violence against women and children. It works to influence the power dynamics shaping relationships particularly between women and men, girls and boys, and adults and children. It aims to maximize activism by collaborating with communities and schools, while strengthening the capacities of organizations and groups that are evolving their violence prevention mandate. Raising voices also creates multimedia and communication tools, so that the benefits of nonviolence become a constant in public dialogue.