Closing the Gender Gap: Gender in Australian NGOs

This research report seeks to fill a gap in the publicly available evidence regarding factors influencing gender integration in Australian NGOs, and to use this to shape recommendations about the development of gender capacity in the Australian NGO sector, with the aim of accelerating progress towards gender equality. It presents research undertaken between August 2010 and February 2011 with a sample of fifteen Australian NGOs, together with a comparative literature study of the integration of gender by other international organisations and NGOs. The report begins with an outline of the rationale for the research.