IKI Gender Community of Practice #8 – Strong together: Engaging men and boys for Gender justice!

The empowerment of women and girls is necessary to successfully combat climate change. Therefore, strengthening women’s participation and visibility requires addressing structural inequalities and barriers that are often perpetuated by men. In addition to  stereotypical male behaviour as one of the main drivers of climate change, men hold leadership and decision‑making positions both in climate‑policy arenas and at the local project implementation level. Under the title “Strong together: Engaging men and boys for gender justice!” the next IKI Gender Community of Practice (IKI GCoP) aims to discuss how men can be included, tackling gender injustice in climate conservation, and how we can foster the concept of “allyship” for women and girls. Let’s step together into a yet underrepresented perspective on gender justice in climate change.

The IKI GCoP is a format designed to support implementing organisations and enhance knowledge exchange and lessons learned regarding their experiences in implementing the IKI gender strategy and promoting gender justice within their projects. The IKI GCoP is a regular and interactive event open for all IKI implementing organisations, co-hosted by the IKI Office and IKI implementers.

We are looking forward to your participation at the GCoP#8!

Dates: 

• Session A: Tuesday 13 October 2026 | 16:00–18:00 CEST (registration closes on Sunday 11 October 2026)
• Session B: Thursday 15 October 2026 | 08:30–10:30 CEST (registration closes on Sunday 11 October 2026)

Kindly sign up bindingly for the slot that serves you best. Please note that you must confirm your e-mail address once (double opt-in). 

You will receive your login details shortly before the event via e-mail.

Note

We would like to invite you to become co-host of a GCoP this year. If you are interested in co-hosting please reach out.  

We are looking forward to seeing you at the GCoP. We are very happy to have received many requests of colleagues to be included in the GCoP.  Please feel free to tell your colleagues who might be interested in joining the GCoP about it and share the information with them.