WHO WE ARE

Collaborative Centre for Gender and Development

Collaborative Centre for Gender and Development is a Non-Governmental Organization that does policy advocacy for gender equality. The organization was founded in 1996 by a small group of academics, researchers, and development experts to build capacity in gender-responsive planning, advocacy, and programming. The organization has grown into staunch and dependable policy research and advocacy resource center with programs present at the county, national and regional levels seeking to cause gender equality through concerted efforts.
CCGD conducts gender-responsive research to gather evidence-based facts for its advocacy against gender inequality and discrimination.

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The Centre also seeks to promote gender-responsive capacity building and institutional development of all sectors in planning, budgeting, programming, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. The Centre also works through multi-sector partnerships between international, regional, and national government agencies as well as civil society and private sectors interested in promoting institutional accountability to gender-responsive governance and equitable development that secures human rights and enables women and girls empowerment.

Our Strategic Focus Areas

Raise awareness and support action on prevailing legal and policy gaps affecting the achievement of gender equality in all sectors.

Support aligning laws and policies to the gender rights, equality, and participation requirements in the constitution at the county and national levels.

Support operationalizing and capacitating national policy/ legal implementation organs and cascading of similar structures to devolved units/counties.

Work with complementary partnerships with government, CSOs, and PSOs at respective levels to support the implementation of gender agenda.

Support resource mobilization, allocation, and utilization to operationalize and sustain/ policy legal framework implementation at all levels.

Areas of Intervention

The Collaborative Centre for Gender and Development (CCGD) has a long history of research, policy/legal advocacy, and practical engagement in policy and law analysis, advocacy, and formulation processes including facilitating drafting and supporting of gender-responsive bills for debate in parliament.