About GenderPro

The Gender Pro Capacity Building Programme

The premier professional development programme for gender equity champions

A 15-week online course that prepares you to become a gender equity expert – combining technical knowledge with hands-on tools for gender mainstreaming, programme design, and evaluation
An opportunity to connect with participants from all over the world and get personalised feedback from expert instructors
Training for the GenderPro Credential – the first-ever internationally recognised professional accreditation for gender and development practitioners

Programme Overview

GenderPro includes eight 90-minute live sessions coupled with independent online learning, and an applied practicum focused on a work deliverable. Two 15-week cohorts are administered per year. Cohorts consist of several sections (each with no more than 15 students), led by an expert instructor.

Your instructor will help you troubleshoot challenges, review your work and offer personalised feedback – so you can apply each lesson directly to your work and your context.

Our fully online learning environment means you’ll get to connect with participants from all over the world: expanding your professional network and your perspective. It also offers flexibility. You can select the session that works best for your time zone, your career, and your life.

The total cost of the course is $2,500. Payment will be due after acceptance to the course, but before the course begins.

GenderPro is a Great Choice for You if:

You want practical frameworks and tools to improve your programme design.
You’re already running programs, but you want to become a gender equity and social inclusion (GESI) expert.
Your work is focused on inclusion – disability or race – and you want to build expertise on gender.
You know that gender mainstreaming is foundational for your work to prevent gender-based violence and discrimination.

What You'll Learn:

Over 15 weeks, you'll master essential competencies that organisations worldwide are seeking in gender specialists:

Gender mainstreaming
Gender as an analytical framework
Design and evaluation for gender transformative programming
Ethics in gender programming
How to communicate your findings

After GenderPro, You Will be Equipped to:

Be the gender focal point for an organisation or project
Design, manage, and evaluate programmes with a gender equity focus
Build your team’s capacity with global best practices for gender mainstreaming in programming and beyond

Applications for the February 2026 Cohort

will open on November 1.

" One of the things that I learned from the GenderPro course is that there are different levels of working on gender – gender blind, neutral, sensitive, responsive and transformative. I believe that we are mostly working on gender sensitive programs and that my colleagues are gender sensitive but I think that we have to go beyond. We have to start transforming. We have to start working together. We have to start using the same language. We have to start involving men and women in order to achieve change and equality."

Matthias Sachse
Health and Nutrition Officer, UNICEF Mexico

The GenderPro Capacity Building Programme is led by the Global Women's Institute at the George Washington University and created in partnership with UNICEF.