Gender Equality Partnerships grants
The Gender Equality Partnerships initiative was launched in 2021 and has since grown from five partnerships between the UK and three other countries into a global network of 125 collaborative projects across 13 countries.
Gender Equality Partnerships is one of our responses to recommendation issued based on a report that the British Council recently commissioned, entitled Gender Equality in Higher Education: Maximising Impacts. This report identified some key global gender equality challenges as well as some examples of how governments, higher education institutions, sector bodies and funders are successfully addressing these issues.
Globally, the Gender Equality Partnerships aims to help higher education institutions and non-profit research organisations build partnerships and begin systemic change in the following priority themes detailed below:
- addressing women’s underrepresentation in higher and further education leadership
- enabling access and tackling subject segregation, particularly in the area of STEM
- strengthening pathways into employment for women graduates from further and higher education
- creating safe educational spaces in higher education institutions.
Grants support partnerships between UK higher education institutions and partner institutions from Ukraine and other countries.
In Ukraine, the focus of Gender Equality Partnerships is on addressing women’s under-representation in higher education leadership and creating safe spaces in Ukrainian higher education institutions.