GAMEChange Network brings together organisations with whom Linda Mayoux has worked since 2002 so that they and other can see and learn from their experiences. They have been developing innovations on two levels:
- Empowerment methodologies: Participatory Action Learning System (PALS), Gender Action Learning for Sustainability at Scale (GALSatScale), Livelihood and Value Chain (BALI, HFHC) Financial Action Learning System(FALS) and other related innovations. These enable women and men to identify and implement their own individual and collective strategies for increasing human rights, particularly women’s human rights as stated in 1979 UN Convention on Elimination of ALL forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the rights of children youth and older people.
- Macro-level mainstreaming of gender and generational empowerment aims and strategies identified at community-level into institutional decision-making and practice and policy advocacy. This includes empowerment mainstreaming in private sector, cooperatives, financial service providers and donor development programmes and projects.
A long overdue participatory update of the network projects with colleagues and partners in each country is planned for 2026.
The network is constantly evolving and expanding. All the pages below are incomplete because I have not had time to synthesise and update all the rich information from the projects and activities these organisations are involved in. But I am keeping them live because some of the organisations still need access. And also because particular images are significant in telling the story of the methodologies and need to be accessible on-line.
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Empower@Scale website
managed by Oxfam Novib, Hivos and IFAD
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Cote d’Ivoire
In July 2014, the Fair Labour Association (FLA) published “Roles of Women in Nestle’s Supply Chain in the Ivory Coast”. Nestle committed to a pilot a methodology to develop and promote local women’s associations. The first GALS workshop was held in Zaranou in August 2015 with Fair Labour Association.
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Ethiopia
Participatory Action Learning System (PALS) process with SNV Ethiopia 2016-2019 as part of Gender and Youth Empowerment in Horticulture Markets, funded by Comic Relief.
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india: GALS and PALS
Organisations in India have used Gender Action Learning System (GALS) and Participatory Action Learning System (PALS) tools in India in workshops to develop tools or identify indicators to integrate into existing gender and/or livelihoods and/or micro-finance activities:: ANANDI Gujarat 2003 – 2005; Jamgoria Sevabrata West Bengal 2005: Hand in Hand…
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Indonesia
!! Overview and update Forthcoming 2026 Development of Happy Family Happy Coffee methodology.
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Kenya
Full overview forthcoming 2026 GAMEChange metholodies were first used in Kenya in 2007 with women entrepreneurs under ILO’s GOWE programme. Then from 2015 as Happy Family Happy Coffee with SMS funded by Hivos.
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Kyrgyzstan
The GALS process in Kyrgyzstan was introduced in 2016 funded by IFAD and implemented by CDA and UNWomen as part of the Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment Programme of IFAD, UNWomen, FAO and World Food Programme. In 2024 USAID funded Empowerment Against Violence methodology with Kyrgyzstan Association of Women Judges.
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Nepal
forthcoming October 2025 with Tribhuban Patel GALS tools were part of a 2006 impact assessment of PACT-US micro-finance programme. In 2019 IFAD started a full GALS process under Joint Programme “Rural women Economic Empowerment” with“Samriddhi -Rural Enterprises and Remittance Project”, implemented by Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supply.
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Pakistan
Participatory Action Learning Tools were used in Pakistan as part of a series of gender training for Micro-Finance Institutions 2004-2006, funded by Aga Khan Foundation Canada and Pakistan. Organisations hosting trainings and using PALS in Pakistan included Kashf in Lahore, Sarhad Rural Support Programme in NorthWest Frontier Province, Punjab Rural…
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Philippines
Update planned 2026 Bridging the Gender Gap in Responsible Finance project adapted Financial Action Learning System (FALS) in 2017 for gender mainstreaming in micro-finance delivery. Funded by Church of Sweden and implemented by Oikocredit with Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation (NWTF) and Alalay Sa Kaunlaran Sa Gitnang Luzon Inc. (ASKI)
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Rwanda
Gender Action Learning System was introduced in Rwanda in 2012 as part of Oxfam Novib’s Gender in Value Chain Development (GENVAD) Programme funded by IFAD and implemented with partners Duhamic in Muhanga and BAIR in Gisenyi.
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Sudan
Participatory Action Learning System was developed with the micro-finance NGO PASED (Port Sudan Association for Small Enterprise Development) under a project called LEAP (Learning for Empowerment Against Poverty). This was partly funded by Oxfam Novib as part of the WEMAN programme, and partly by PASED funds.
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Tanzania
GALS@Scale and Happy Family Happy Coffee methodologies were implemented in Tanzania from 2013 – 2016 as part of the Coffee Partnership of Tanzania with champions in Vuasu Cooperative Union in Kilimanjaro District and champions from staff and farmer cooperatives of Tutunze and CMS in Mbinga District. The initiative was implemented…
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Uganda
Update planned 2026 Kabarole Research Centre started to develop Participatory Action Learning System (PALS) from 2002. From 2007 Bukonzo Joint Cooperative Microfinance and New Home implemented GALS as part of Oxfam Novib’s WEMAN programme funded by IFAD. Gumutindo Coffee Cooperative implemented a separate initiative with TWIN UK.