Meet the Chroma Collective.
We’re a community of gender practitioners from leading donor and financing institutions. Together, we are a cross-institutional group of experts, doers, listeners, and problem solvers. We work to more effectively integrate gender within and across international development systems.
HOW DOES CHROMA WORK?
The Chroma Collective creates opportunities for donor and financing institutions across the global development ecosystem to innovate and produce radically new ideas in their approach to gender mainstreaming.
Members work together to build a more robust perspective of the ecosystem by looking outside their organizations, direct peers, and geographical contexts.
As a Collective, we roll up our sleeves to take a practical and generative approach to the most sticky challenges, grapple with tough questions, and translate them into tangible ideas.
Together, we collaborate across organizational silos, drive new ways of working, share promising practices and learnings, and co-create solutions to boost our joint impact towards gender equality.
But wait, what exactly is gender mainstreaming?
WHY IS THE COLLECTIVE IMPORTANT?
There has been a lot of progress in how funders and other stakeholders approach gender in global development. Over time, this progress has slowed down, and in some cases has even become ‘stuck’. Furthermore, COVID-19 revealed the fragility of gender equality achievements to date. The Chroma Collective aims to share solutions and design innovative approaches to address entrenched challenges in advancing gender equality.
CONVENED BY
Iris Group is a women-owned consulting firm that applies practical, evidence-based technical guidance and strategies to support its clients as they work towards achieving gender equality and social inclusion.
IDEO.org is a non-profit design studio that specializes in human-centered design to build solutions and systems in service of building a more just and equitable world.
FUNDED BY
The Collective is fully funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, an American private foundation with a mission to create a world where every person has the opportunity to live a healthy, productive life. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will participate in the core cohort of the Collective, but will not be responsible for agenda-setting or decision-making in the formation of the Collective.