Genderlenz Afrique Consult Ltd.


Who we are?
Genderlenz Afrique Consult provides consultancy services to promote and support your understanding of the gender dimension in your organizations and companies. These covers the organizational development processes, the organizational climate and culture, governance, executive decision making, human resources processes and managing crisis from a gendered perspective. We provides various services to organizations and companies on gender dynamics using innovative methods to promote gender equality, diversity and inclusive leadership in businesses. Trust us, we will not only ensure that your business improve its level of gender parity and ratings, but will become an inclusive, progressive and sustainable leader of gender diversity in your sector.

Vision
We seek to support organizations and businesses in Africa to become inclusive, progressive and sustainable leaders of gender parity and diversity in their industries.

Mission
Through training, coaching and mentoring, we capacitate African organisations and companies to improve gender parity, diversity and growth of their businesses.

Doing business with a gender lens
Gender equality creates a society in which women and men, girls and boys enjoy the same opportunities, rights and obligations in all spheres of life. It is therefore vital to the realization of human rights and sustainable development for everyone everywhere. Conducting business with a gender lens requires that issues are critically assessed from a gendered perspective. It requires carefully observing, viewing, analyzing and advising on activities, projects, programmes and institutions, looking at all the implications from different perspectives, particularly, from the perspectives of men and women, boys and girls to achieve the best results. To do this effectively, an understanding of the concepts of gender equality are crucial to every given process.

Benefits of gender equality and women empowerment
In fact, several researches have shown that institutions and businesses that strive to attain a considerable level of gender equality have become successful over the years. For example, it has been established that, companies with a superior gender balance at the management level enjoy higher earnings. In addition, according to the World Economic Forum, The Advocate Group, McKinsey & Company and Workplace Gender Equality Agency, companies who prioritize gender equality and diversity show:

  • Improvement in productivity and economic growth.
  • Decrease in turnover.
  • Better managerial decision making and problem-solving.
  • Increase in employees' engagement, satisfaction and performance. 
  • Improved reputation with audience, employees and potential talent pool.

This is no different in Africa. Increasingly, gender inequality has plagued the African Continent for decades and the complexities of such inequality have been entrenched as a result of its systemic cultural background, its deep rootedness in social values and behaviours, patriarchy, its weak institutions and the economic condition of its society among others.

OUR SERVICES

Support to family and community

Promoting gender equality through community systems. Participatory gender equality engagements. Community programmes on gender equality values and concepts

Support to workplaces

  • Gender Audit
  • Gender Analysis
  • Gender Pay Gap
  • Gender Policy
  • Leadership Representation
  • Gender Balance Throughout the Company
  • Maternity and Paternity Leave and Work-Life Balance
  • Gender Sensitive Language (Speaking and Writing)
  • Gender Sensitive Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Harassment Free Work Culture

Workshops and presentations
Designed for middle management, executive level, board and human resource executives, these workshops explore gender analysis, gender audit and gender policy as a powerful tool. Participants undergo a process, learning how to identify or recognize, interact and utilize the gender element in the workplace to create a progressive, inclusive and diverse organizational culture, policies and documentation.

Some of the topics we consider include;

  • Gender and Business;– Focuses on current gender-related issues and challenges in your industry, their root causes, and how to address them for the benefit of your business. It focusses on how gender diversity in businesses creates benefits. It strengthens the position that a diverse workforce signals an attractive work environment for talent.
  • Gender and Human Resource;- Designed to equip participants with a foundational understanding of gender-related human resource issues, sexual harassment issues, paternity and maternity concepts, legal liabilities and policy solutions.
  • Gender and Business Leadership;– This is designed to provide an analytical gender framework to support organization development governance, decision making and problem-solving processes.
  • Executive Training and Couching on Gender, Inclusivity and Diversity in Businesses – We provide training and coaching to business who want to attain higher heights in gender inclusiveness and diversity. We will teach you the how of all of these.
  • Documents’ Review from a Gendered and Inclusive Perspective – We are happy to assist companies and organizations with the review and edits of their documents, reports and policies etc. from a gendered perspective. Injecting gender sensitive language and perspectives into these documents to make it more inclusive.

Please contact me at sylvia.noagbesenu@gmail.com for further information, assistance and participation in our programmes or to these projects and programmes if interested.

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