Learning partnerships for gender-transformation (LP4GT) in South Africa
8 July 2022
African Regional Community of Practice for Gender and Health
24 April 2023The Gender Transformation for Africa (GT4Africa) platform is the product of a cohort of IDRC-funded research projects implemented across seven African countries- Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, The Gambia, Burkina Faso, Malawi, and South Africa- between 2022 and 2025.
While this initial phase of GT4Africa concluded on a high note with numerous milestones achieved, it marks not an end but a new chapter in collaboration. The cohort has outlined strategies to sustain momentum and further amplify African voices in advancing Gender Transformative Approaches (GTA) for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) through interconnected and multipronged efforts — one of which is the launch of this online platform.
GT4Africa is envisioned as a dynamic, bilingual (English and French) multimedia and interactive platform designed to connect and support African feminist researchers, practitioners, advocates, and academics working on gender and health issues, particularly in SRHR.
The platform serves as a hub for dialogue, knowledge-sharing, collaboration, and advocacy — promoting African expertise, amplifying African voices, and fostering meaningful engagement on gender and health issues. It also provides networking opportunities and builds connections across the continent.
By leveraging multimedia tools, interactive engagement, and strategic outreach, GT4Africa aims to cultivate a vibrant, inclusive, and feminist digital space for knowledge exchange and advocacy.
GT4Africa is designed for a diverse audience engaged in the gender and health space across Africa, including:
- Researchers and academics
- Civil society organizations and advocates
- Policymakers and development partners
- Practitioners and program implementers
- Youth and community leaders
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GT4Africa concludes on a high note with a closing webinar of reflection and celebration
After over three years of collaboration, the GT4Africa collective held its concluding webinar on 21 August 2025 to take stock of its journey and celebrate milestones.
New IDRC-GT4Africa Supplement sheds light on what it takes to operationalise gender transformative approaches to improve sexual reproductive and maternal health rights and services in Africa
A new supplement in the African Journal of Reproductive Health showcases what it takes to operationalise gender transformative approaches (GTA) across different African contexts to improve sexual reproductive and maternal health (SRMH) rights and services.
Intersectionality and sexual, reproductive and maternal health in Africa: Discussions from the gender transformation for Africa collaborative
As a collaboration of six implementation research grants on gender transformative approaches to sexual, reproductive and maternal health across Africa, we convened a conversation to discuss how intersectionality applied to our work.
GT4Africa Cohort Writing Workshop Report
The Gender Transformation for Africa (GT4Africa) Cohort Writing Workshop was held from 9-13 September 2024 in Cape Town, South Africa with 21 participants across the 6 projects and 13 organisations.
GT4Africa Cohort Workshop (9-13 September 2024)
The first in-person GT4Africa cohort workshop deliberated on Research Publications, Knowledge Translation, and Sustainability and collaborated on a forthcoming journal supplement and commentaries.
FEMINIST FIESTA workshop: Validating African perspectives on gender transformative approaches in health
The three-day validation workshop held in Cape Town from May 8-10, 2024, brought together 20 feminist – researchers, academics, implementers, and activists from 12 countries and 16 institutions in Africa.
Shifting unequal gender norms and practices: what does it take?
Despite growing recognition, calls for gender transformation are not matched with corresponding rigorous research and learning on what it entails at scale and over time. It is common to come across published papers that merely mention the need for more gender responsive / transformative interventions/approaches but often fall short of articulating, why, how and what is needed to move the needle forward.
Collaborative project on gender transformative approaches to improve sexual, reproductive and maternal health in Africa launched
The School of Public Health recently began work on two exciting aspects of a global research project focusing on gender transformative approaches to improve sexual, reproductive and maternal health in Africa.