Gender Consortium

Welcome to the Gender Consortium

Gender Consortium's staff and associates Genevieve Chaffey, Cara Ellickson, Anu Mundkur and Peter Lumb (associate)

The Gender Consortium is a group of associates who have expertise in gender and development issues. The dynamic team has a range of skills including undertaking applied policy research on gender equity, conceptualising and delivering gender analysis and gender mainstreaming capacity development programs, gender responsive policy development monitoring and evaluation.

The staff and associates of the Gender Consortium have worked in Australia, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam.

We offer consultancy services in:

gender analysis and gender mainstreaming capacity development
gender auditing
applied policy research on gender issues and
gender-sensitive monitoring and evaluation

Australian Leadership Awards Fellowships Program (2011/2012)

The Gender Consortium is committed to fostering gender sensitive policy, planning and project implementation in Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Our capacity development programs reflect a participatory approach where, through creative exchange and sharing of knowledge and experience, new knowledge emerges for understanding approaches to gender mainstreaming, gender analysis and women's empowerment.

Under AusAID's Australian Leadership Awards Fellowships Program, commencing in April 2012, the Gender Consortium will host 18 Fellows from the Mongolia and Vietnam for a 10-week intensive program focussing on Preventing and responding to violence against women in Mongolia and Vietnam.

Gender Consortium News

International Symposium
Friday 15 June 2012 in Adelaide
As part of the Australian Leadership Awards Fellowships Program, the Gender Consortium will host a one-day symposium in Adelaide on Friday 15 June 2012, titled Preventing and responding to violence against women: Issues, Challenges and Best Practice.
The symposium will address a range of issues including (but not limited to) slavery as gendered violence, issues /best practice in responding to violence against women in immigrant /migrant /refugee communities, engaging and working in partnership men to prevent violence against women, gender implications of violence prevention polices, preventing and responding to violence against women with disabilities.
Symposium flier (PDF 841KB)
Sympoisum registration (PDF 57KB)

Christine Gates, GC Associate, in Hanoi
Christine Gates is currently working with the Centre for Women and Development in Hanoi, Vietnam, as a volunteer through the Australian Volunteer International program and in partnership with the Gender Consortium. She will be supporting local women who are developing and expanding services in the area of domestic violence and trafficking.
Awards
Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation (2011)
The Graduate Certificate in Gender Mainstreaming Policy and Analysis has earned Australia's highest accolade for excellence in teaching, with the Gender Consortium's team (Anu Mundkur, Cara Ellickson and Corey Durward) being awarded a citation for outstanding contributions to student learning. The citation reads: For creating innovative learning spaces which promote the critical application of knowledge to ‘real world' gender equity issues and inspire students to become change agents. ALTC Citation; ALTC Media Release
This citation follows the team's 2009 Social Sciences Faculty Award for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching (Flinders University) which was awarded for, amongst other achievements, the development of a virtual learning environment that, through exemplary use of education technology, introduces students to "real world" activities associated with work in development organisations as part of the Graduate Certificate in Gender Mainstreaming Policy and Analysis.