Gender
We research mobilization for gender equality and social change.
Current projects
Dec 2022 - Dec 2026
Sudan-Norway Academic Cooperation
Sep 2021 - Dec 2025
Rights Activism under Political Uncertainty (RightAct)
Nov 2020 - Nov 2025
The Cost of Doing Politics: Gender Aspects of Political Violence
Jan 2021 - Dec 2024
The Invisible Ceiling
Completed projects
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 2009 - 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