Gender
We research mobilization for gender equality and social change.
Current projects

Dec 2022 - Dec 2026
Sudan-Norway Academic Cooperation (SNAC)

Sep 2021 - Dec 2026
Rights Activism under Political Uncertainty (RightAct)

Nov 2020 - Nov 2025
The Cost of Doing Politics: Gender Aspects of Political Violence
Completed projects

Jan 2021 - Dec 2024
The Invisible Ceiling

Aug 2014 - Dec 2022
RISE - Research Initiative to Support the Empowerment of girls

Jan 2017 - Dec 2022
Women on the Bench: The Role of Female Judges in Fragile States

Jul 2016 - Jun 2020
Women and Peacebuilding in Africa

May 2014 - Jan 2020
Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare: Global battles

Jan 2017 - Dec 2019
Money Talks: Electoral Financing of Women

Jan 2015 - Dec 2019
Women in the developmental state: female employment and empowerment

Sep 2016 - Jun 2018
Life Skills in Non-Formal Contexts for Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries

Jul 2014 - Jun 2017
Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America

Mar 2014 - Jun 2017
Women's Human Rights and Law Reform in the Muslim World

Sep 2015 - Dec 2016
Symbolic Representation of Women in Africa and Beyond

Mar 2012 - Apr 2016
Protection of Civilians: From Principle to Practice

Jan 2014 - Dec 2015
Violence against women and criminal justice in Afghanistan

Jan 2011 - Jan 2015
Transformations in the Arab World

Apr 2011 - Oct 2014
Caught between rape and adultery in Sudan

Oct 2008 - Feb 2014
Ethiopian Flower Farm Employment Project

Mar 2011 - Dec 2013
Gendering Faith

Jan 2009 - Aug 2013
To Exist is to Resist: Sumud and Resistance in the Shadow of the Wall

Dec 2009 - Dec 2012
Women and law in Latin America: Justice, Security and Legal Pluralism

Nov 2008 - Dec 2012
The Price of Protection. Gender, Violence and Power in Afghanistan

Apr 2011 - Dec 2011
Gender based violence in conflict-torn Sudan

Jan 2009 - Dec 2011
Poverty Reduction and Gender Justice in Contexts of Complex Legal Pluralism

Jan 2011 - Feb 2011
Gender Equality and Development in Mozambique - Contribution to WDR 2012

Apr 2009 - Nov 2009
Women and Peacebuilding in Sudan

Mar 2008 - Aug 2008
Gender Policies and Feminisation of Poverty in Mozambique (Sub-Project 1)

Leonardo Arriola
Associate Professor at University of California, Berkeley and Affiliated Senior Researcher
Empowering women
We research mobilization for gender equality and social change.
We are at the forefront of both conceptual and empirical research, and combine a broad array of quantitative and qualitative methods.
We communicate our research to stakeholders to increase its reach and impact. Geographically, we work in and with partners from countries in the Middle East and Northern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia and Latin America.
Our research and evaluation expertise:
- Gender based violence
- Female employment and women’s economic empowerment
- Women’s political participation and representation
- Sexual, reproductive and maternal health
- Women, peace and security
- Men and masculinities