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Engendering Industries Intensive Program
The Engendering Industries Intensive Program was a two-year program in which partners received academic training through Georgetown University’s Gender Equity Executive Leadership Program and two years of intensive gender equality change management coaching by our team. Over 40 organizations across 27 countries participated in the Engendering Industries Intensive Program, with tangible business performance impacts. Engendering Industries welcomed the last group of Intensive Program partners in 2021. We are not currently accepting new partners into the Intensive Program.
Developed by USAID and Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, the program delivered a best-in-class curriculum that empowered key decision-makers to effectively integrate gender equality initiatives across their corporate structure. The program also built the capacity of organizational leaders to identify gender equality gaps and implement interventions that directly increase opportunities for women within the company. With the support of Engendering Industries change management coaches, companies used proven tools and our customized best practices framework to introduce gender equality initiatives at each phase of the employee life cycle. Learn more about Intensive Program impacts.
The program has changed my perception of various aspects of my job as head of organizational development, which includes policy formulation, recruitment, and manpower planning. I have learned to consider gender equity in all aspects.
– Osinubi Oyinlola, Eko Electricity Distribution Company, Nigeria
About the Program
The Gender Equity Executive Leadership Program, developed by USAID and Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, delivers a best-in-class curriculum that spans the breadth of the employee life cycle. The course empowers the employees of partner organizations—including administrators, operational area managers, and other key decisionmakers at all levels—to effectively integrate gender equality initiatives within their corporate structure.
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In-Person and Virtual Learning
The program’s courses are taught in-person and virtually over 12 months by Georgetown University professors to three mid- to senior-level managers from human resources, operations, and other departments. Participants from each organization are carefully selected through a recruitment process conducted by USAID’s Engendering Industries experts, in coordination with organizational leadership. The aim of the program is to train key decisionmakers in partner organizations on how to implement gender equity-focused policies and practices.
Building Skills to Promote Gender Equality
Each program module teaches participants how to:
- Analyze existing company policies and practices and create action plans to address gaps;
- Conduct employee satisfaction surveys;
- Collect sex-disaggregated data; and
- Conduct salary gap analyses.
Throughout the course, instructors help participants strengthen their organizational strategy and change management skills, as well as communication and persuasion skills, so that upon graduation they are fully prepared to make the business case for gender equality to their executive leadership.
USAID complements the Gender Equity Executive Leadership Program instruction by pairing each partner organization with an expert change management and gender equality coach. The coach delivers tailored technical support to partner organizations as they work through the program to analyze gaps, design and implement interventions, and monitor their progress toward gender equality and strengthening business outcomes. Using a customized scorecard tool, participants and their dedicated coaches help organizations make strategic, data-driven decisions to prioritize gender equality interventions, and track the progress of these interventions and their impact on organizational performance.
Developing a Global Cadre of Equality Champions
Through the Gender Equity Executive Leadership Program structure, USAID is developing leaders with skills to advance gender equality in their organizations. The program actively harnesses this cadre of leaders by fostering their roles as mentors and speakers to others in their workplaces, communities, countries, and the energy and water sectors globally.
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