Social inclusion
Shifting power for transformative change
More than elevating voices and expanding access to decision makers, we help diverse communities take on power structures that foster privilege and inequality.
Focus Area
Taking a transformative approach to inclusion and equality
Counterpart helps our partners push for truly transformative changes to their countries, their communities, their families, and themselves, taking on entrenched power structures that foster privilege and inequality. We work with our partners to explore new mechanisms for engaging people in public life, particularly those that are most marginalized. By promoting openness and the right to participate, including through technology and innovative forms of citizen deliberation, our local partners are empowering citizens and transforming societies. Read more about Counterpart’s history of support to the Open Government Partnership.
Innovative integration tools
Collaborating with partners in challenging contexts
Ensuring active engagement in public life, our programs incorporate women’s empowerment, enhance youth leadership, and support LGBTQI inclusion.
What we're doing
Our tools help ensure better integration of vulnerable groups
We have created a suite of innovative integration tools to make sure vulnerable groups are integrated into the civic space. Our tools include Rapid Gender Analysis Integration Planning for Fragile and Conflict-Affected Environments, Missing Voice Analysis, and an Inclusive Social Accountability Framework, amongst others. By enhancing meaningful inclusivity at every step of the process, our activities increase the likelihood for transformative, community-owned solutions. Read more about Counterpart’s history of support to the Open Government Partnership.
empowerment
Empowering girls through community building
Counterpart’s innovative Village Support for Girls Education program, which was established in 2021 in Mauritania through our USDA-funded McGovern-Dole Food for Education and Child Nutrition program and is being introduced in Mozambique under McGovern-Dole, facilitates women’s empowerment groups to address a wide range of issues through confidence building and group cohesion. These women’s groups have come together to address pressing issues in their villages: girls drop-out rates, early and forced childhood marriage, and women’s participation in the local economy. Read more about Counterpart’s history of support to the Open Government Partnership.
Learn more
Focusing on the building blocks of healthy communities
We’re touching lives in communities around the world. Read more to find out how.
May 2023
Rights and Dignity
Youth are the future of a country and are eager to establish themselves and become a contributing member of society, but they often face difficulties securing employment. Many Hands One...
April 2023
Rights and Dignity
Burundi, one of the world’s poorest nations, is still recovering from generations of ethnic conflict and a civil war, with nearly 70 percent of the population living below the international...
Our Impact
Strengthening local food systems to better address household needs
9
NGO partners focused on advocacy in Timor-Leste trained in research for evidence-based advocacy.
1,260
marginalized people reached through open government partnerships in Ecuador.
187
local actors in Niger trained to better understand their roles in the decentralization framework, including youth and women.
Our stories
Bringing together experts and activists
We’re transforming communities through social inclusion. Read our stories to find out how.
Focus Areas
Elevating marginalized voices for prosperous communities
We take an inclusive approach to our programming and in our operations, strengthening communities side by side with our partners.
