Women’s Voice and Leadership Learning Partnership: Global Learning Hub

Scope

Global Affairs Canada and IDRC are supporting a Learning Partnership to enhance the efforts and impacts of the flagship Canadian program, Women’s Voice and Leadership, renewed in 2023. This call for proposals seeks to recruit the host organization (or consortium of organizations) for the Learning Partnership’s global learning hub.

This hub will be responsible for facilitating a global community of practice for peer-to-peer learning and knowledge sharing among women’s rights organizations, LGBTQI+ groups and their networks.

As a first step, the hub will facilitate a participatory design process to co-create a learning agenda — shared learning questions and priorities across regions — with renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership partners. The hub will then support the partners in co-implementing the learning agenda by facilitating multiple learning activities, including the use of innovative approaches. Based on analysis and synthesis, the hub will generate practical insights that can improve the partners’ practices and online/offline strategies. The hub will also administer an online portal for virtual exchanges between partners and share resources publicly on lessons learned and results.

Across the four years of funding, the hub will strive to provide opportunities to reflect on and understand experiences with a view to helping partners strengthen their advocacy and interventions to protect and promote gender equality. 

Eligibility

This call for proposals is meant for women’s rights and feminist organizations, or consortia of organizations, that are primarily governed, led and directed in the Global South (or at a minimum predominantly work in countries that benefit from Official Development Assistance and have the promotion of the rights of women, youth, girls and gender-diverse people as their primary mission.  

Applicants will need to demonstrate previous experience in applying feminist monitoring, evaluation and learning practices, with an interest in demonstrating the benefits of feminist or gender-transformative approaches, and be able to perform services in English, French and Spanish, at a minimum. 

More details

For more information, please consult the detailed Call for Expressions of Interest. 

Learn more about the Learning Partnership 

Questions received until June 3, 2025 were collected and anonymized. Consolidated answers are provided on this page. Please note that no further questions will be answered.  

A virtual information session was held on June 3, 2025. The PowerPoint deck for the main presentation is available in English and French. We invite you to watch the recordings, available in English or French.