Change in Norms, Cultures, Power Structures, and Politics

KVINFO’s international work takes place in countries with a lack of gender justice and where work with gender and equality provides an important and effective focus area for creating a more free and equal society. In this strategy period, we work in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon in the so-called MENA region and in Ukraine and Georgia.

The work takes differnt forms, ranging from preventing gender-based violence in collaboration with partners to advocating for law reform and challenging norms and traditions that limit people according to stereotypical gender norms.

Common to all parts of the work is that it contributes to meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, and that it is based on a Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA). It is an approach to international development cooperation that considers it a duty to respect, protect and fulfill rights, rather than, as in the past, see development work as charity.

KVINFO always works closely with local organisations in the countries concerned and regionally. The partnerships ensure efficiency and sustainability in the work by using local knowledge of needs and context and by focusing on local ownership in all parts of a project or programme. Some projects also have Danish organisations as partners. These are Danner, the Women’s Council Denmark, LGBT+ Danmark and DFPA.