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Dismantling Bias: Lessons Learned from Grameen Foundation’s Gender and Power Dynamics Workshops within Women and Girls Empowered (WAGE) Initiatives

To address and safeguard women from the harmful norms that limit women’s economic engagement in society and that can result in gender-based violence (GBV), Grameen Foundation USA (Grameen) conducts a participatory and experiential-learning methodology, known as the Gender and Power Dynamics (GPD) workshop. The workshop is implemented with local partners as a starting point for addressing gender, equity, and diversity within integrated women’s economic empowerment (WEE) programming.

Between, 2020 and 2022, under the WAGE Global Consortium, Grameen provided GPD workshops in Honduras, El Salvador, Ghana, Eswatini, and Timor-Leste to key managerial, technical, and administrative staff of 24 partner organizations (Microfinance Institutions and Non-governmental Organizations) and in some cases other local stakeholders.