Our Partners
The Accelerator for Shifting Gender Norms through Education is a dynamic collective of twelve member organizations. The members have experience delivering gender norm-shifting programs in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to youth ages 10 to 19 in school-based or school-aligned settings in partnership with government education systems. The member organizations have strong evidence-based, outcome-focused approaches and a willingness to share their models and devote time to a collaborative process to shape adolescent gender norms.
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Ação Educativa
Founded in 1994, Ação Educativa is a non-profit civil association from São Paulo, Brazil, that acts in the fields of education, culture and youth, under a human rights perspective. For this purpose, it carries out training and supporting activities for groups of educators, young people and cultural agents. It integrates campaigns and other collective actions aimed at the realization of these rights. It develops participatory research and methodologies focused on the construction of public policies in tune with the needs and interests of the population. Its mission is the defense of educational, cultural and youth rights, with a view to promoting democracy, social justice and socio-environmental sustainability in Brazil.
Breakthrough India
For 25 years, Breakthrough has been working to make gender-based violence unacceptable, with the aim of transforming culture that permits the same. We have worked with nearly 2.3 million adolescents across six intervention states in India, aiming to transform gender-limiting norms that hold girls and women back. We directly work with young people (11 to 25 years) in communities and schools, and through government partnerships we aim to create more gender-equitable environments within school systems. We strive to inform the larger feminist agenda nationally and globally, promote a gender-progressive lens in mass content and narratives, and push for an overall shift towards a gender-equal world.
Centre for Catalyzing Change (C3)
For over 35 years, Centre for Catalyzing Change (C3) has been designing and implementing interventions at-scale to mobilize, equip, educate and empower women and girls to meet their full potential, to grow up as educated, informed, confident citizens of India, to live dignified and healthy lives, and to emerge as leaders in their communities. C3 works in regions of India that are often remote, resource-poor and where patriarchal barriers are deeply pronounced. Currently, our interventions are operational across 12 states of India.
Centre for Girls’ Education
The Centre for Girls’ Education (CGE) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving access and quality of education for marginalized girls in Northern Nigeria. Through community-based interventions, CGE provides life skills, mentorship, and educational support, aiming to empower girls to fulfill their potential.
Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice
Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice has worked internationally and in the US since 2011 to engage men and boys as allies in gender equality, promote healthy manhood, and prevent violence. Equimundo works to achieve gender equality and social justice by transforming intergenerational patterns of harm and promoting patterns of care, empathy, and accountability among boys and men throughout their lives.
Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE)
FAWE works across Africa to advance girls’ education and gender equality through advocacy, and innovative models and programs. With a presence in 33 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, FAWE collaborates with governments, institutions, and communities to create inclusive and equitable education systems.
Foundation for the Application and Teaching of Science (FUNDAEC)
FUNDAEC’s efforts over the last half-century—rooted in Colombia and gradually expanding across the globe—have focused on advancing community well-being by promoting the teaching and application of science in both rural and urban settings. Through educational initiatives and community-based processes, the organization strives to strengthen individual capacities and foster both personal and environmental transformation.
Glasswing
Glasswing International is an El Salvador–based nonprofit organization that is on a mission to build a brighter future for communities across the Americas. Glasswing transforms existing public schools into safe community spaces that improve learning outcomes; equips frontline workers to radically expand access to mental health support; and increases economic opportunities through vocational and entrepreneurial training, service learning and active peer networks. Since 2007, Glasswing has mobilized and invested over $220 million in Latin America, the Caribbean and New York City and impacted over six million people’s lives, mobilizing over 150,000 volunteers in the process.
International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
Gender inequity lies at the root of every major problem the world faces. The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) has set the global agenda for equity, inclusion, and shared prosperity with our action-oriented research and solutions. ICRW’s Gender Equity Movement in Schools (GEMS) program is aimed at empowering adolescents in schools and communities. We collaborate closely with local, regional, and international partners to undertake field research and program work. We communicate our findings and experience to policymakers through advocacy efforts grounded in sound evidence and data.
Projet Jeune Leader
Projet Jeune Leader works to improve the health and well-being of adolescents in Madagascar. They train, equip, and support specialized educators to deliver a gender-transformative comprehensive sexuality education program in under-resourced rural public middle schools to ensure that adolescents have essential knowledge, skills, and support to thrive during adolescence and beyond.
Raising Voices
For 25 years, Raising Voices has worked in Uganda and beyond, to prevent violence against women and children. Our innovation has been to address the power-systems that surround women and children’s lives (such as social or education system) and place the responsibility of acting on the entire system, not just women themselves. We have done this through two evidence-based methodologies - SASA! and The Good School Toolkit - that have been recognized globally as effective interventions. We have an unwavering commitment to rigor, practice-based learning, accountability to women and children and to communities we serve.
Room to Read
Room to Read envisions a world free from illiteracy and gender inequality. Since 2000, Room to Read has benefited more than 50 million children and has worked in 28 countries around the world to help young learners unlock their full potential through education. Our programming supports children to develop foundational literacy skills, as well as life skills that promote gender equality.
