This International Development Week (February 2–8, 2025), we celebrate how partnerships and community-led action drive meaningful change. The ENGAGE! Women’s Empowerment and Active Citizenship initiative is a powerful example of global partnership in action across countries and continents.
The project works primarily to support the leadership capacity of informal sector women in addressing key issues they are facing in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Haiti, India, and Tanzania. This includes the future of work faced by women; engaging women in community governance; women’s leadership and feminist approaches, young women as entrepreneurs and agents of community change; and asset-based approaches to reducing urban and rural poverty through economic development.
In this video, staff from Engage partner organizations discuss the value and impact of partnership and collaboration when working toward social change.
This project is funded by Global Affairs Canada.