Gender Equality

Empowering individuals and organizations to break down gender barriers, we create actionable strategies in support of equitable opportunities and representation in all sectors.

Breaking Barriers to Gender Equality

Gender equality is the key to a future that is better, brighter, and fairer for everyone. Despite growing political momentum in gender equality, development actors continue to grapple with systemic challenges. These include dealing with discriminatory legal and policy frameworks that create barriers to gender inequality, inadequate funding for gender-focused issues, and insufficient volumes of gender-disaggregated data that makes it difficult to identify issues and track progress in gender equality. We are committed to supporting our clients in addressing these barriers and maximizing their impact on gender and its intersections with other issues.

Gender Equality

Breaking Barriers to Gender Equality

Gender equality is the key to a future that is better, brighter, and fairer for everyone. Despite growing political momentum in gender equality, development actors continue to grapple with systemic challenges. These include dealing with discriminatory legal and policy frameworks that create barriers to gender inequality, inadequate funding for gender-focused issues, and insufficient volumes of gender-disaggregated data that makes it difficult to identify issues and track progress in gender equality. We are committed to supporting our clients in addressing these barriers and maximizing their impact on gender and its intersections with other issues.

An example of our approach

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The Challenge

The Challenge

Case study:

Gender Equality

The Challenge

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) wanted to strengthen engagement with donors in Europe and East Asia to shore up their commitments to gender equality, but lacked insight on donors’ funding and policy priorities in gender equality and opportunities for engagement in the sector.

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Our Approach

Our Approach

Case study:

Gender Equality

Our Approach

SEEK collaborated with the BMGF team to determine the key policy and funding insights needed to inform their engagement with donors on gender equality, women’s economic empowerment, and women in leadership. We broke down BMGF’s information needs into concrete questions for our in-donor country consultants to address. From there, we worked to identify relevant insights and built compelling visuals outlining donor priorities in gender equality funding and policy. Finally, we distilled in-market political intelligence into specific, actionable recommendations to help BMGF prioritize engagement with key donors in the gender sector.

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Our Impact

Our Impact

Case study:

Gender Equality

Our Impact

With SEEK’s support, the BMGF team was able to deepen its understanding of donors’ gender equality priorities and engage with donors in a strategic, evidence-based manner.

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Impact Areas in

Gender Equality

Dive into a spectrum of focus areas that form the core of our initiatives. Explore these key domains to understand how our targeted efforts contribute to meaningful change and progress.

Gender - Climate

Climate change disproportionately impacts societies' most vulnerable, especially women and girls, and poses a threat to global gender equality. We support our clients in tackling these intersectional challenges through gender-sensitive approaches.
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Gender - Education

Education is one of the most effective tools for empowering and women and girls and reducing gender inequalities. Yet, access to and quality of education continue to be impacted by gender disparities. We help clients systematically break down and address gender-related barriers to education.
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Gender - Health

Addressing gender disparities in health and promoting access to quality health care are crucial to empowering people of all genders to reach their full potential. We support our clients in addressing the impacts of gender on healthcare, as well as related issues like power, norms, and healthcare access.
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Gender - Nutrition

Poor nutritional outcomes are both a cause and a consequence of gender inequality. Evidence shows that putting women at the center of nutrition initiatives is vital to their success. Awareness of these important dynamics helps SEEK effectively support clients in driving meaningful impact in this sector.
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Theme Intersection

Gender - Climate

Climate change disproportionately impacts societies' most vulnerable, especially women and girls, and poses a threat to global gender equality. We support our clients in tackling these intersectional challenges through gender-sensitive approaches.

Theme Intersection

Gender - Education

Education is one of the most effective tools for empowering and women and girls and reducing gender inequalities. Yet, access to and quality of education continue to be impacted by gender disparities. We help clients systematically break down and address gender-related barriers to education.

Theme Intersection

Gender - Health

Addressing gender disparities in health and promoting access to quality health care are crucial to empowering people of all genders to reach their full potential. We support our clients in addressing the impacts of gender on healthcare, as well as related issues like power, norms, and healthcare access.

Theme Intersection

Gender - Nutrition

Poor nutritional outcomes are both a cause and a consequence of gender inequality. Evidence shows that putting women at the center of nutrition initiatives is vital to their success. Awareness of these important dynamics helps SEEK effectively support clients in driving meaningful impact in this sector.

Where we help

With our understanding of these intersections, we take a holistic approach to provide tailored support to our clients in:

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Gender - Climate

Climate change disproportionately impacts societies' most vulnerable, especially women and girls, and poses a threat to global gender equality. We support our clients in tackling these intersectional challenges through gender-sensitive approaches.
Read More

Gender - Education

Education is one of the most effective tools for empowering and women and girls and reducing gender inequalities. Yet, access to and quality of education continue to be impacted by gender disparities. We help clients systematically break down and address gender-related barriers to education.
Read More

Gender - Health

Addressing gender disparities in health and promoting access to quality health care are crucial to empowering people of all genders to reach their full potential. We support our clients in addressing the impacts of gender on healthcare, as well as related issues like power, norms, and healthcare access.
Read More

Gender - Nutrition

Poor nutritional outcomes are both a cause and a consequence of gender inequality. Evidence shows that putting women at the center of nutrition initiatives is vital to their success. Awareness of these important dynamics helps SEEK effectively support clients in driving meaningful impact in this sector.
Read More

How we can help

With our understanding of these intersections, we take a holistic approach to provide tailored support to our clients in:

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Strategy Development

With global attention to gender equality at an all-time high, the push for gender-conscious approaches is growing in the development sphere. Ensuring organizations are guided by clear, DEI-conscious strategies and principles, including differing perspectives on gender and concrete gender-related strategic priorities, is essential to maximizing positive change. We have a proven, co-creative approach to strategy development that ensures our clients achieve a high level of thoughtful impact.
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Donor Financing and Analytics

Despite growing interest in gender equality – including through flagship initiatives such as feminist foreign policies – there is limited evidence on how dialogue and commitments are translating into resources and effective policy. We develop the evidence base that enables leading advocates and organizations to push for more resources and better funding decisions, both through our work on the Donor Tracker and through bespoke finance and policy analyses for our clients.
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Advocacy and Resource Mobilization

Diverse actors must work to ensure sustainable resourcing, better funding decisions, and increased transparency around gender-focused interventions. We work with clients to enhance their unique selling points, identify new funding opportunities, and develop compelling narratives to mobilize resources for achieving their gender equality ambitions.
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Partnership Building

Gender equality, being a cross-cutting issue, requires diverse actors to work together in driving progress. We support clients in building effective coalitions to ensure more coordinated financial and political support for global gender equality goals.
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