Operationalizing Equality

Gender Mainstreaming and Organizational Audits

We offer comprehensive consulting services in gender audits, gender mainstreaming, and Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+), with the simple goal of empowering organizations to operationalize equality and achieve sustainable impact.

Gender mainstreaming and GBA+ involve integrating a gender and equality perspective into all phases of your work, ensuring that policies and programs benefit all individuals equitably—it’s equality in action.

We often begin with gender assessments and audits which are foundational for effective mainstreaming, enabling organizations to identify and address hidden biases, pinpoint gender gaps in pay and opportunities, understand the diverse impacts of policies, and foster an inclusive workplace. By leveraging these tools, organizations can tap into diverse talent, improve decision-making, enhance their reputation, ensure legal compliance, and drive continuous improvement through evidence-based analysis and intersectional understanding, as GBA+ emphasizes. This ensures that all initiatives are responsive to diverse needs of their stakeholders.

Good Governance – Inclusion Institutionalized

In additional to a gendered lens, strong governance structures and processes are key to empowering your organization or project and its overall success. It is important to thus institutionalize inclusion. Our team will conduct a preliminary, participatory organizational or project audit, aligning with our equality principles to inform customized approaches and training to get your project or organization there. These can include but are not limited to the following:

Evaluation of existing structures, policies, and practices, and identification of gaps, needs, grievances and opportunities.
Strengthening accountability mechanisms, transparency and ethical conduct
Board Development and Training
Strategic Planning and Organizational Development
Reviews and Recommendations for policies and procedures.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Focussed Audits, Strategies
Training and Education

Our customized approaches encourage transformation, leadership development and are heavily participatory, with an aim to empower all stakeholders involved.

Gender Based Analysis Plus (GBA+)

GBA+ is a process that asks: “Who is affected by this policy or program, and how are they affected differently?” It’s a tool to ensure that government initiatives are equitable and inclusive.

Whether you are a government department mandated to figure out how to operationalize your GBA+ commitments or a recipient of funding requiring you to be ‘GBA+’ compliant, SHE Associates can support you to get there.

If you are a Federal Government Department, note that: SHE Associates has SECRET LEVEL security clearance with the Canadian government and currently has a Standing Offer to support GBA Plus engagements, which means you can pluck us off a list and get started on your road success immediately.