As experienced gender equality experts, we blend evidence-based frameworks with practical advice, empowering your organisation to drive effective, sustainable change that works.
Gender impact assessments are more than a compliance requirement—they’re catalysts for creating equitable, inclusive policies, programs and services that truly meet community needs. Our expert team guides you through this critical process, transforming what could be a complex obligation into an opportunity to deepen your organisation’s understanding of gender impacts and strengthen your community outcomes.
We offer comprehensive technical support with conducting GIAs.
Full GIA development
We manage the entire GIA process, from initial assessment to final recommendations, ensuring compliance while identifying opportunities for meaningful improvement.
Advisory services
Our experts provide guidance at key stages of your GIA process, helping your team navigate challenges and strengthen their approach to gender analysis.
Consultation design and facilitation
We design and facilitate inclusive consultation processes that capture diverse community perspectives to inform your GIA and strengthen your outcomes.
Required every four years under the Gender Equality Act, a well-designed gender equality action plan drives equality in your workplace. We help you develop a tailored and effective GEAP that identifies and addresses the specific gender equality challenges within your organisation, creating a workplace where everyone can thrive.
We provide tailored support through the entire GEAP journey:
GEAP reviews and advice
Our experts review draft GEAPs though an intersectional and gendered lens to identify strengths, gaps and opportunities, ensuring your plan meets legislative requirements and reflects best practice.
Consultation and engagement
We design and facilitate inclusive and effective consultation processes that support your staff to contribute to the GEAP process. We apply an intersectional lens to consultation, ensuring underrepresented groups are meaningfully included and that diverse voices are included in the design of your gender equality initiatives.
Data collection systems
We offer guidance on establishing robust systems for ongoing intersectional data collection that meet legislative requirements and inform strategic decision-making.
Understanding your current gender equality landscape is essential for targeted, effective action. Our comprehensive workplace audits reveal the hidden patterns and systemic barriers that may be limiting progress, providing you with clear insights and evidence-based recommendations that transform compliance requirements into real change.
Our workplace audit services include:
In-depth assessments
We conduct comprehensive audits, analysing data across key workplace gender equality indicators to identify patterns, progress and priorities.
Gap analysis
Our specialists identify gender equality gaps and improvement opportunities specific to your organisation’s context and workforce profile.
Strategic recommendations
We provide tailored, practical recommendations that address issues and create pathways for positive change aligned with your organisational goals.
Measuring progress helps to provide direction for your organisation’s gender equality initiatives and tells a powerful story of change. We help you develop customised monitoring frameworks and impactful analysis and reports, ensuring you meet legislative requirements and have strong data for continuous improvement within your organisation.
Our monitoring and reporting services include:
Monitoring framework development
We design customised measurement frameworks that track progress against your gender equality goals and statutory requirements.
Report preparation
Our team assists with preparing comprehensive progress reports that fulfill compliance requirements while telling your organisation’s gender equality story.
Data analysis and insights
We analyse your gender equality data to identify trends, successes and areas needing attention, providing actionable insights to guide your next steps.
Policies and procedures are powerful tools that determine how your organisation operates. Our expertise helps you develop clear, practical policies that make gender equality part of your everyday business, from how you recruit and promote staff to how you support flexible work – creating lasting improvements that remove barriers and create fairer opportunities for everyone.
We bring an intersectional gender lens to your policy work through:
Gender-responsive policy development
We develop new policies and procedures that incorporate intersectional gender considerations from the outset.
Policy review services
Our experts review existing policies through an intersectional gender lens, identifying opportunities to strengthen inclusion and equity.
Implementation support
We provide practical guidance for rolling out new or revised policies, ensuring they translate into lasting workplace changes.
Women’s Health East goes beyond compliance to deliver practical, transformative solutions that drive lasting, positive change.
Our approach combines 30 years of grassroots community knowledge with evidence-based methods that have shaped practice across Victoria.
We turn complex gender equality principles into tailored strategies that work in real-world settings, applying genuine intersectional expertise developed through decades of collaboration with diverse women.
By choosing Women’s Health East, you not only gain technical specialists, but community partners whose solutions reflect the lived experiences of women in Melbourne’s east. Your investment directly supports programs that improve women’s health and safety in our region.