Peer Learning Initiative on Gender & Global Grantmaking

June 6th to 8th, 2009
Washington, D.C.

What will it take to effectively incorporate a gender perspective into your grantmaking?

We invite you to join colleagues in a new initiative, "Gender & Global Grantmaking," a peer learning workshop designed to create effective and innovative ways to integrate gender equity into your grantmaking and to use it as tool to strengthen social justice goals.

When and where?

This peer learning workshop will take place in Washington, DC from the evening of June 6th through the evening of June 8th. This is just prior to the next Grantmakers Without Borders conference, whose opening session begins the evening of June 8th.

What will you get from this Workshop?

• Using a framework developed specifically for Gw/oB by specialists in gender equality, participants will create a plan for strengthening or introducing a gender perspective into their grantmaking.
• Workshop participants will not only share experiences and strategies but also collectively analyze the issues they face in engaging board members, staff, and grantees from a variety of world regions.
• A team of gender advisors from four continents will support participants throughout the workshop and beyond, providing guidance to workshop alum as they implement plans created during the workshop.
• The learnings and insights of the participants and advisors will serve as input to a comprehensive gender equity framework, which will highlight the basics that grantmakers should consider in addressing gender equity in their grantmaking and in other aspects of their work.
• The information and resource materials collected will be used to update and expand a resource library that will be made available through the Gw/oB website.
• Participants and advisors will together form an ongoing peer learning working group to support one another.

What will the Workshop's agenda be?
To see the Workshop's agenda, click here

Who will be leading the Workshop?

A remarkable team has been assembled for this workshop—gender activists and experts from Brazil, Georgia, Hong Kong, Nicaragua, Serbia, South Africa, and the U.S who will guide workshop participants through a gender looking glass to explore this provocative tool for advancing equality and social justice. Our team is led by Julie Shaw, founder and former Executive Director of Urgent Action Fund. Working with her are writer/activist Jane Barry (UK/USA), and activist/trainer Jelena Djordjevic (Serbia). A diverse group of Gender Advisors is helping to guide the process and to offer country, region, and issue-specific insights. Advisors include: Lin Chew (Hong Kong), Ana Criquillion (Nicaragua), Mariam Gagoshashvili (Georgia), Amalia Fischer Pfaeffle (Mexico/Brazil), and Tina Thiart (South Africa). Katrin Wilde from the Channel Foundation and John Harvey, Gw/oB's Executive Director, complete our team. For biographies on the Workshop's Team, click here.

Who can participate?

This convening is open to all who wish to better integrate gender equity into their grantmaking. Gw/oB hopes to attract a diversity of grantmakers working on a range of social justice issues to demonstrate how gender equity cuts across all our grantmaking interests and strengthens all our social justice goals.

What is required?

In advance of the workshop, participants will be asked to prepare brief case studies or stories exemplifying their experiences with gender. Case studies will be used to inspire in-depth discussion on specific issues.

What will it cost?

Participants will be responsible for their own airfare and hotel accommodation and are asked to contribute $250 toward the cost of meals and supplies for the workshop.

The deadline for registration is May 15th, 2009.

To register, complete and mail in an application form [ MS Word document ]

For more information on the Gender and Global Grantmaking Initiative, please contact John Harvey at john@gwob.net.

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