Capacity assessment, at an organizational level, allows us to reflect on the deep structure, policies, strategies and practices in place to challenge gendered biases in institutions – reflection that is necessary to support transformative organizational change for gender justice.

This toolkit builds on Oxfam Canada’s work with practical tools to support the implementation of its global capacity strengthening strategy for women’s rights and gender justice with a diverse set of local civil society partners.

It presents a gender-sensitive approach to capacity assessment and building and a flexible and participatory set of tools, attentive to the complexity of different organizations.

This toolkit is a revised version of The Power of Gender-Just Organizations Toolkit sections 1, 2 and 3.14. Key revisions include additional capacity areas on intersectionality, collective and self-care practices, including in digital spaces, promoting environmental best practices, safeguarding, supplementary workshop exercises and an intentional shift in language from capacity building to capacity strengthening.