Empowering change agents

We equip change agents in two ways:

Enhancing their skills and knowledge on key gender equality issues and supporting them to drive meaningful feminist change in their organisations.

Through training, facilitation and knowledge exchange, change agents such as gender focal points become more confident in their work, and better placed to implement change towards feminist futures.

By working with us, feminist change agents are better equipped to deal with persistent challenges – like resistances to gender equality; and obstacles to meaningful change.

Everyone who participates in our activities will be invited to join the network of Fabulous Feminists. We provide extensive follow-up, including mutual learning sessions and membership of an active peer network of change agents via our learning management system.

Fabulous Feminists Programmes

Gender-responsive budgeting: a participatory feminist introduction
(Level 2)

lntensive virtual course providing practice and analytical tools for GRB, with Maja Bosnic

Applied Theatre for Gender Equality
April 2024
(Level 2)

Intensive virtual course exploring applied theatre for enhancing practice, with Aanchal Jain

Weekend Retreat, 7th-10th June 2024
(Level 3)

In-person retreat on the Mediterranean to nurture yourself and your feminist networks

Packages also available on request, combining various products and services. Please get in touch to discuss.

“Meaningful change requires organisations to look both inward and outward. My courses and mentoring for feminist change agents include gender mainstreaming at the operational and programmatic level.
I am always searching for new methodologies and approaches for maximizing the effectiveness of our work. Participants learn how to use techniques for challenging blockages and developing new ways of thinking and behaving within institutions.”

Learn More

What are the main categories of resistances to gender equality?

Play Video

“Lucy Ferguson, Gender Equality Academy, on Dealing with Resistances”, ACT Project

Publications

“Toolkit: Resistances to structural change in gender equality”, Lucy Ferguson and Lut Mergaert/SUPERA 2022

“This Is Our Gender Person”: THE MESSY BUSINESS OF WORKING AS A GENDER EXPERT IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, International feminist journal of politics, 2015

“The Politics of Feminist Knowledge Transfer: Gender Training and Gender Expertise”, Palgrave 2016

What people are saying about Fabulous Feminists

“Your article “This is Our Gender Person” articulates perfectly how it feels to work in this field. Thanks for legitimizing the paradoxes that us gender people feel all the time and for making us feel less alone!”

“In a moment in development where many of us are thinking about power and voice, and about what knowledge is and who has it, applied theater theater is an unexpected and energizing way in.”

“I am excited about the potential to further my work and found it really encouraging to learn from such experts in a safe space where facilitators gave us a lot of time.”