Partners
Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice works to promote gender equality and create a world free from violence by engaging men and boys in partnership with women, girls, and individuals of all gender identities. Their work emerges from more than two decades of local and international research, and Margaret Greene has been collaborating on that work over the entire period, from being a founding Board member, and Board Chair for 10 years, to the creation of the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES), to two major studies on sexual and reproductive health and rights, Getting to Equal on boys and men over their lifecourse, and one on Off to a Healthy Start on boys and SRHR.
Iris Group has deep experience in the gender equality and social inclusion space. Iris shines a spotlight on complex intersectional inequalities, and supports individuals, organizations, and communities in their pursuit of meaningful change by collaborating on transformative models and actions. They have developed tools and partnerships to facilitate an understanding of gender inequality across divergent sectors including agriculture, health, political participation and infrastructure. I am proud to work closely with Iris’s great bench of gender experts to make a difference to policies, programs and research.
UNFPA has been a client of GreeneWorks for many years. The work we have done varies from serving as lead author of State of the World Population 2012: By Choice not by Chance: Family Planning, Human Rights and Development; to leading a multi-country analysis of adolescent sexual and reproductive health policy; to working with them currently to implement their impressive gender equality strategy throughout the organization.
Collaborators
A remarkable collaboration of researchers across the political and religious spectrum invited Margaret Greene to join an effort to examine and establish what is known about fertility awareness-based methods of family planning, sometimes sloppily referred to as “natural family planning.” The strategy of assembling this diverse team was an example of “oppositional collaboration,” which has been demonstrated to be effective and rigorous, and establishes a larger set of uses and applications for the research once it is completed.
Child, Early, & Forced Marriages & Unions and Sexuality Working Group is made up of international and national organizations working with and for adolescent girls to advance their rights and opportunities. Together this group of feminist organizations has developed resources and engaged in advocacy to draw attention to the under-addressed issue of how patriarchal control of adolescent girls’ and young women’s sexuality acts as a driver of CEFMU.
Vasectomy is a highly effective form of contraception that empowers men to take an active role in family planning and reproductive responsibility. By choosing vasectomy, men adopt a reliable, long-term birth control method and relieve some of the contraceptive burden traditionally placed on women. WVD produces a number of events throughout the year, including quarterly webinars, and their signature 24 Hour celebration which raises global awareness of vasectomy, while mobilizing doctors all over the world to perform vasectomies.