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, from August - November 2012, the Gender Consortium hosted 15 Fellows from Africa for a 12-week intensive program focussing on Building the Capacity of African Women Leaders: Gender Inclusive Development. As part of the Australian Leadership Awards Fellowships Program, the Gender Consortium organised a one-day symposium in Adelaide on Friday 26 October 2012, titled African Women's Leadership: Expanding Opportunities.  

African Women’s Leadership: flyer (PDF 219KB)

The Symposium explored a diversity of issues related to women's empowerment and leadership; the importance of inclusion; and the challenges, barriers and solutions to enabling women's participation in leadership.

Symposium Presentations:

African Women's Leadership in Australia - Best Practices and Lessons Learned Casta Tungaraza (Murdoch University)

Adaptive Leadership (PPT 1MB)
Niki Vincent (Leadership Institute of South Australia)

Difficulties faced by African Refugee Women living with Disabilities (PPTX 60KB)
Esther Simbi (Department for Communities and Social Inclusion, South Australia)

Panel 1

Young Women's Leadership Training and Cultural Intelligence
Maria Johns (Migrant Women's Lobby Group SA; and Network of Immigrant and Refugee Women of Australia) and Batsirai Melinda Mangoma (Program participant in Young Women's Leadership Training and Cultural Intelligence)

Presentations by ALA Fellows

From Home-makers to Policy-shakers: Enabling Young Women's Leadership in Africa (PPT 603KB)
Brenda Lung'ania Wangwe, Ifeoma-Amaka Orji, Lucy Terngu Tembe and Zainab Kwaru Muhammad-Idris

Building Women's Political Leadership in Africa (PPT 1MB)
Alimata Karimu, Josephine Habba, Hauwa Dikko and Ssanyu Rebecca

A Fresh Policy Challenge: Building a Sustainable Coalition for Improving Women's Leadership in Ghana (PPTX 130KB)
Dilys Amoabeng, Amanda Odoi and Esther Pokoo-Aikins

Engaging Women's Leadership in Peace and Security - Africa (PPT 269KB)
Betty Sharon, Grace Y Yeanay, Ilenyo Omiat Esther and Joy Nayiga

Panel 2

Zita Adut Deng Ngor (Women's Legal Service (SA) Inc) and Lillian Mwanri (Master of Health and International Development, Flinders University) (PPT 2MB)

Panel 3

Gillian Kariuki (Women's Health Statewide/Women's and Children's Health Network), Assina Ntawumenya (Women's and Children's Health Network; and African (Women's Federation, South Australia) and Casta Tungaraza (Murdoch University)

Gender Consortium News

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.

inspiring achievement