L’être égale … in short

What is L’être égale ?

A small not-for-profit organisation based in France, working on gender equality in France and at an international level in a variety of countries, particularly in West Africa. It specializes in gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting. It is involved in training, evaluation, organisational developement as well as research projects.

Key experiences since 2012

Gender responsive budgeting (GRB)

2025 :Training on GRB of parliamentarians in Benin and Rwanda
2025 : Impact assessment of GRB in Morocco, UN Women (on-going)
2024 : Production of « Corpus Législatif sur la Budgétisation sensible au genre for francophone parliamentarians : Mapping of legal and methodological approaches to GRB in Francophone countries + benchmarking to support Parliaments (Agence Parlementaire de la Francophonie)
2024: Training of trainers and guide development on gender responsive planning and budgeting, in Kinshasa (5 weeks), UN Women DRC/Women Count
2021-2023: GRB in French cities : Lyon, Strasbourg and Bordeaux cities
2017-2020: Support to French local authorities to introduce GRB in the development of popular neighbourhoods
2017-2018: Several workshops for UNWOMEN on gender responsive budgeting for Moroccan central and local government
2017-2018: International training workshops on GRB for governments and NGO staff (UNWOMEN Serbia, Turkey)
2016-2017: Supervision of an action-research project on GRB at communal level in Senegal, in collaboration with Université Gaston Berger, St Louis, Senegal
2010-2014: Elaboration and tutoring e-learning sessions on “financing equality”, “gender budgeting and budget support” for the ILO Training Center
2013: Burundi – One week training on gender responsive budgeting (GRB) for MPs and other elected members of Burundi institutions: included gender analysis, introduction to and application of GRB arguments and tools, strategy development.

Gender mainstreaming (training and organisational development)

2024 : Creation of 12 modules for a MOOC on gender mainstreaming at communal level, Association Internationale des Maires Francophones
2023: Gender analysis : Identified a network of resource persons and good practices amongst AIMF’s 400 members across francophone countries and recommendations for a Gender Action Plan, for Association des maires francophones (AIMF)
2023: Developed a gender action plan and capacity building strategy for the national Kenya informal settlements rehabilitation program (KISIP), including intersection between gender and climate change, for Suez/Agence Française de développement
2013- 2020: Adviser and trainers on mainstreaming gender in urban policies (developing arguments, tools, strategies, sensitizing councilors, technical staff and civil society members, training French local authorities in gender mainstreaming in local public policies and GRB
2015: Policy development and staff training for The Union des Femmes de Martinique
2015: Training and tools development for DRC UNDP staff on gender mainstreaming in micro-finance (Kivu region) // training and tool development for mainstreaming gender in all components of DRC UNDP programme
2011- 2014: On-line + workshops ILO/ICT Facilitator of e-learning modules and workshops (Gender Academy) on gender mainstreaming and financing gender equality
2010 – 2020: IHEID (University Geneva), development of 5 e-learning courses on gender concepts and theories, gender and education, gender budgeting, gender and rural development, and gender and conflict, leading to a Certificate of Advanced studies. Includes defining topics, identifying relevant literature, developing exercises and tools, tutoring GRB module on line
Concept notes: Writing up Gender and biodiversity and Gender and Sanitation (Agence Française de Développement, 2013)
Since 2012 : Training and training of trainers workshops for small and large organisations (public and private sector, universities) on « gender and development », gender and project cycle management …

Evaluation and research

2025 : Study of gender equality observatories in West and Central Africa, UN Women/Women count
2021-2023: Researcher and gender advisor for 3 year-action-research project OVERDUE JUST Sanitation, with DPU, UCL, London, including field work in Mozambique and Madagascar
2019 : GRB training for Tunisian governement officers (UNWOMEN)2020 – running: Gender expert in the DPU Overdue project, targeting taboos in sanitation in urban Africa.
2019: Mid-term evaluation of EU Moussawat programme in Tunisia

Project coordinator and trainer : Claudy Vouhé

Claudy Vouhé has worked as a gender expert for nearly 30 years. She specialises in training and supporting gender mainstreaming, including GRB, mostly in West African countries. A feminist, she has worked alongside women’s organisations as well as international and national institutions. She is a founding member of Genre en Action, a francophone research and advocacy network.

CV : https://etreegale.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/claudy-vouhe-short-cv-oct-25-4.pdf