ALIGN Platform

🎉 Today our ALIGN platform team wraps up a month-long focus on #research about men in #politics in Colombia, Liberia and Malaysia, who support feminist goals and #genderequality. With the help of my amazing colleagues Emilie Tant & Emily Subden we've launched 3 in-depth country reports, a cross-country comparative study and a blog, all of which are available on our series page 👇 https://lnkd.in/dfHndpYt and which we had the honor to feature on Now and Men podcast led by Sandy Ruxton and Stephen Burrell. 🤝 It wraps up more than a year long collaborative research work, which allowed me to learn with and from great teams led by Fernando, Tanya Ansahta Garnett and Zaireeni Azmi. 🙏 We benefited from support and insights from great researchers and practitioners who focus on #masculinities including Matthew Maycock Nikki Van der Gaag, Henri Myrttinen, laxman लक्ष्मण belbase बेल्वासे, Jeff Hearn, Elin Bjarnegård, Diana Koester, Ayesha Khan and many more. 🔎 We learnt a lot about what motivates men to be #allies and to refuse #feminist label, what institutional barriers hinder and enable their commitments or what more they need to do to change gender #norms and inspire trust in young people. For more details and implications for donors, researchers and practitioners, please visit our ALIGN page.

The #Olympics starts this evening in Paris with the opening ceremony. Will it be the most gender-equal games ever? Does it have the potential to #ChangetheGame for gender norms? 🏅 Find out in our new blog by Emily Subden. #GenderEqualGames #Olympics2024 #WomenInSport https://lnkd.in/gHarCWC4

How do gender-restrictive networks contribute to violence against LGBTQI+ people? 📣Check out ALIGN's new report by Evie Browne out now: https://lnkd.in/eu7PkEyc #gendernorms #EndGBV #LGBTQI+ 🏳️🌈 ODI Ján Michalko, PhD Ayesha Khan Rachel Marcus Aatif Somji Diana Jimenez Thomas R. Carmen Leon Himmelstine

Ready for the final day of the #FFP conference in Mexico!🟣🟢 Ján Michalko, PhD will speak on behalf of our work for ODI in a final panel at 11am in the CSO dialogue. Join us to hear 3️⃣ key ways we can strengthen collaboration between government & civil society through #FeministForeignPolicy. 🔴 Livestream: https://lnkd.in/gGASjPcd

We’re here on behalf of ODI ! The III Conference on #FeministForeignPolicy is kicking off this morning in Mexico City. Hosted by the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores de México, the first Global South country to declare #FFP, we look forward to hearing where next for this exciting global agenda. #IIICoPEF #PoliticaExteriorFeminista #FFP #Gender #Mexico

The #G7 in Italy just wrapped up. But this year, the declaration omitted references to upholding #LGBTQ & #abortion rights. In a context of ongoing #backlash & consolidating electoral gains of right-wing political forces, is this evidence of the growing reach & impact of 'norm-spoiling'? 🏳️🌈 Learn more about anti-gender actors & their tactics in our latest ODI brief 🚩 https://lnkd.in/eGMBKc-P

📣 #FundingOpportunity #CallforProposals 📣 We are looking for 2-3 partner organisations based in the Global South for a new project: *Political parties’ responses to technology facilitated-GBV* ❓ Are you part of an organisation with relevant experience, expertise, and access to political party representatives? ❓ Do you have demonstratable experience researching politics and gender norms? ❓ Can you conduct high quality primary research and analysis, and synthesise the findings into an easily accessible format? If so, we’d love to hear from you! 📝 Task: Co-lead on research design and co-deliver data collection and analysis, plus dissemination of findings locally and globally. 📍 Global South ⏲️ Deadline for applications: 1 July 2024 📅 Timeline: August 2024 for 15 months 🔍 Full details and how to apply at: https://lnkd.in/e8pyskYS #GenderNorms #education #research #genderequality #SierreLeone #Pakistan #thinktank Aatif Somji Rachel Marcus Carmen Leon Himmelstine Ján Michalko, PhD Emilie Tant Evie Browne Ayesha Khan Diana Jimenez Thomas R.

The #InternationalLabourConference is taking place in Geneva, & the main discussion is on Decent Work & the #CareEconomy. At the same time, global leaders are meeting in Italy for the #G7 summit. While women's rights are facing #backlash around the world, economic inequality continues to grow, & political leaders fail to tackle the climate crisis, what policies are needed to counter these trends? 🚨 Something that can to tackle all three issues at once, is building more caring societies: this could can help transition to a more green economy and shift unequal social norms to reduce gender gaps in income 📈 What can states do to change #gender norms & build caring societies? Find out in this short policy brief from ODI by Aatif Somji ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/gEJQ3eYP #ILO #CareWork

At the OECD - OCDE Conference on Gender Equality this week, Feminist Foreign Policy states have a significant role to play in securing more financial support for feminist movements. 💰 When we know that feminist movements and women's rights organisations are a critical force for generating long-term change, what should policy relating to ODA and international funding look like? Read our new policy brief from Emilie Tant and Ján Michalko, PhD to find out: https://buff.ly/3x5VXM9 🟣 #FeministForeignPolicy #FFP #GenderEquality #ODA #OECD

This week, the #G20 Working Group on Women's Empowerment are meeting to discuss Work and #Care Policies 🟡 How can states build more caring societies and transform gender norms for a more equal world? Find out in ALIGN's report: Transforming gender norms for women's economic rights & empowerment Executive Summaries available in FR, ENG & ESP ✅ Here → https://lnkd.in/ee4KT3U3 #gendernorms #unpaidcare #genderequality #feministeconomics