Gender & Development, made practical

Simplifying Gender. Strengthening Practice.

GenderWork Simplified offers practical gender work insights, frameworks, tools, and reflections for practitioners committed to doing better work.

It starts with the Gender Competence Assessment, ten realistic scenarios that show you where your practice actually stands, and the one dimension worth building next.

The Core Framework

The Gender Competence Framework™

01Conceptual
Understanding gender frameworks deeply, not just their definitions.
02Analytical
Applying a gender lens to real situations, documents, and decisions.
03Interpersonal
Navigating conversations, resistance, and the emotional charge of the work.
04Institutional
Understanding how organisations enable or undermine gender work.
05Reflexive
Examining your own positionality, assumptions, and blind spots.
Put it to work
See the shape of your own practice in ten scenarios.
Awareness is not enough
“Awareness lives in what you know. Competence lives in what you do.”

Most gender training stops at concepts. Practitioners leave the room able to define gender mainstreaming, yet still freeze when a senior official dismisses their data, or when a results framework buries gender in an annex. This platform is built around the gap between knowing and doing, and how to close it deliberately.

Build gender competence, one practice at a time.

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