Launched in 2021, the Gender Equality Partnerships initiative has grown from just five partnerships between the UK and three other countries to a thriving global network of 70 collaborative projects, spanning 120 institutions and 12 countries.
Gender Equality Partnerships is one of our responses to 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 build partnerships and systemic change in the priority themes detailed below:
- Prevention of violence against women and girls with a particular focus on higher and further education institutions as safe spaces for women.
- 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.
Awards 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.
On this list you may find projects to be implemented in 2025 / projects implemented in 2024.
Download the report
Discover more about how the initiative is supporting positive change globally in our new report: Gender Equality Partnerships: the journey so far. This report covers the global reach, impact and lessons learned of Gender Equality Partnerships, and includes case studies of impactful projects around the world.
