About this course

Win-Win Strategies has created this course and an accompanying playbook to help companies develop and apply a gender-responsive procurement strategy. This work was supported by Plan International, The Netherlands as part of their 'Girls Advocacy Alliance' programme, funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

  • The business case for gender-responsive procurement

    Integrating women-owned businesses into corporate supply chains helps expand and diversify markets. By increasing the number of women-owned businesses in supply chains, companies are likely to be fostering greater product innovation.

  • Multimedia

    This course offers a variety of multimedia tools to truly add value to your learning process and journey. We offer free, downloadable reading content, video clips that help to further enhance the course material, and quizzes to test your knowledge.

  • Gender-responsive procurement: three tools

    This course will equip you with the appropriate tools to help you implement and assess the gender-responsive procurement policies in your company.

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If you don't have time to take the full course, this toolkit will still give you the right insights to gender-responsive procurement practices

Grounded in the belief that we can drive change, we have aimed to capture best practices and outline some simple steps to help companies fully embrace the benefits of women’s economic empowerment and develop effective gender-responsive procurement policies that are good for women and for business
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Course curriculum

  • 1

    About this course

    • About this course
  • 2

    Introduction to gender-responsive procurement

    • Introduction to gender-responsive procurement

    • Gender-responsive procurement quiz

  • 3

    The use of gender criteria in procurement process

    • The use of gender criteria in procurement process

    • Learn more about the women’s empowerment principles
  • 4

    The business case for gender-responsive procurement

    • The business case for gender responsive procurement

    • Learn more about the business case for supplier diversity & inclusion

    • The business case for gender responsive procurement quiz

  • 5

    The three key tools to gender-responsive procurement - Tool 1

    • Three key tools tool

    • Learn more about WeConnect International
  • 6

    The three key tools to gender-responsive procurement - Tool 2

    • Three key tools tool pt.2

    • Gender-responsive procurement checklist

    • Learn more about gender equality in the workplace at Equileap
  • 7

    The three key tools to gender-responsive procurement - Tool 3

    • Three key tools pt. 3
  • 8

    Download full toolkit

    • Gender responsive procurement playbook
  • 9

    Your next steps

    • Your next steps

    • End of the course
  • 10

    Download full course presentation

    • Full course presentation