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?
Latest Resources
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.
Project
Rebuilding LA with Care
Following Los Angeles’ devastating 2025 wildfires, Rebuilding LA With Care highlights child care providers’ essential role in disaster response and explores how cities can strengthen resilience by investing in care infrastructure.
This guidance helps cities, transport agencies, funders, and planners understand how care shapes mobility and identify practical ways to design transportation systems that better serve caregivers, care receivers, and workers.
Project
MenCare Cities
MenCare Cities is an initiative led by Equimundo, the Center for Masculinities and Social Justice, that promotes the co-responsibility of care by engaging men in caregiving and encouraging a more equitable distribution of unpaid care responsibilities within families.
Latest Updates
City Spotlight
Beyond the Numbers: How Bogotá Is Building Better Evidence on Femicide
How can cities better prevent femicide? Bogotá is strengthening evidence through institutional data and frontline insights, identifying patterns of violence and opportunities for intervention to build more effective, coordinated responses.
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
How can cities help raise a generation of caring men? Reflecting on the MenCare Changemakers Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Holly Milburn-Smith explores how urban policies, public spaces, and investments in care can challenge traditional masculinity, promote shared responsibility, and build more equitable communities.
Member Cities
CHANGE is a network of 18 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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