Cities are drivers of change that can be repeated and scaled globally.
CHANGE cities test and share innovative solutions to better serve and expand opportunities for women, girls, and people with non-binary gender identities.
Our work explicitly recognizes and addresses intersecting inequalities predicated upon race, religion, ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression.
our framework
CHANGE cities are applying a gender lens to create more equal communities and a more just world. We position our work within the four distinct roles that cities play in our lives: as innovators, employers, service providers, and connectors.
The City as an Innovator
How can cities pilot and scale new ideas and approaches?
The City as an Employer
How can cities set an example and build an inclusive workforce?
The City as a Provider
How can cities integrate gender into policies & services?
The City as a Connector
How can cities collaborate with cross-sector stakeholders?
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Featured Work
A practical guide for urban practitioners looking to place caregivers at the center of local policy, services and infrastructure. Drawing on CHANGE’s experience transferring and adapting Bogotá’s model to Freetown and beyond, this offers guiding questions, tools and examples to help cities adapt the Care Blocks to their own context.
Through CHANGE Caring Cities, the City of Melbourne conducted research to better understand the opportunities and challenges facing “older carers” or residents aged 55 and over […]
Project
Rebuilding LA with Care
On January 7, 2025, as historic wildfires ripped through neighborhoods across the Los Angeles metropolitan area, early child care providers played an essential, yet often […]
About this collaboration This report was developed through a collaboration between CHANGE and a student research task force at Occidental College, working in partnership with […]
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City Spotlight
Beyond the Numbers: How Bogotá Is Building Better Evidence on Femicide
Bogotá’s latest research on feminicide demonstrates how cities can overcome the ethical and methodological challenges of studying gender-based violence. By combining administrative data with qualitative insights from frontline professionals, the city has produced actionable evidence to strengthen coordination across justice, protection, health, and social service institutions—and improve prevention.
Blog Post
Building Care Systems: Lessons from Uruguay and Across Latin America
What can cities learn from one of Latin America’s most established care systems? A visit to Uruguay and the Global Alliance for Care revealed practical lessons on governance, public-private partnerships, and locally tailored approaches to building care systems.
Blog Post
The Cities That Raise Men
Following the MenCare Changemakers Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Holly Milburn-Smith explores how cities help shape caring manhood 27 July 2026 When I traveled to […]
Member Cities
CHANGE is a network of 17 cities across six continents, representing more than 100 million residents. Our Secretariat works closely with city policy experts and local government leaders to advance gender equity.
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