The work, in detail.

Connections for Global Change is the Foundation’s flagship programme: a behind-the-scenes partnership and policy-building platform connecting people, organisations, public institutions, regulators, companies, clinical leaders, civil society, funders and governments to move work from intention to implementation.

We identify where a problem needs coalition, infrastructure or a missing actor at the table, then build the right relationships around it: from policy programmes and strategic partnerships to convenings, implementation pathways and direct support for partners already doing the work.

This is not networking for its own sake. It is the Foundation’s method for making change possible: connecting local realities to institutional power, technical expertise to political commitment, and resources to the communities they are meant to reach.

The Global Innovation Blueprint for the Health of Women is a strategic initiative. The Dove Foundation for Global Change is the organisation leading this change, a global plan for the wider health of women that includes a regulatory fast-track for the innovations they need.

The work is organised around three groups, Regulation, Policy and Implementation, and Access, with innovation the focus across all three.

The Blueprint is being developed with the ambition of reducing the time it takes for innovations for the health of women to move from evidence and approval into implementation and patient access.

A direct campaign calling for a G20 Women's Health Taskforce, national and local implementation groups, and concrete commitments from political leaders to flag gynaecological conditions and the effects of violence early in their health systems.

Reach to date: written submissions and briefings to over 4,500 G20 leaders, parliamentarians, policymakers and diplomatic representatives. The campaign sits in collaboration with W20, the official G20 engagement group on gender equality, under the South African Presidency.

Organisations that submitted and supported

The Roundtable is the Foundation's events programme. A series of action-focused convenings that bring regulators, policymakers, clinicians, industry and civil society into the same room, often for the first time on a given issue.

The format is built to produce real, actionable, implementable policy. Each Roundtable is connected to a specific workstream and ties directly into the Foundation's wider work.

A growing network of partnerships with local clinical providers delivering women's health care in the places it has historically been hardest to access. We do not run these clinics. We support our partners with capacity building, programme development, help locating funding, and connections to companies, medical professionals and specialists willing to lend expertise.

The first partnership operates in Quito, Ecuador. Further partnerships are in development.

Distribution of educational resources in lower-income settings, including books, learning materials and digital access. The programme works with partner schools and community organisations to fill specific resource gaps that limit girls' engagement and progression.

122 million girls are out of school worldwide. Poverty remains the single most important factor determining whether girls can access and complete education.

A research and public engagement programme addressing one of the most persistent gaps in the record: the histories of women. Around 0.5% of recorded history is about women's lives and work. The programme produces accessible writing, school resources, lectures and public convenings to begin to redress that.

Our founding programme. The Ghartey Dove Mentorship Programme grew out of the Ghartey Dove Girls Project in West Africa. It paired young women aged 18 to 25 with mentors in the fields they aspired to enter, alongside structured reading and communication training.

The Foundation's Essay Prize, awarded every other year, recognises original argumentative writing on questions of policy, history and gender. Entries are judged by a panel of academics, policymakers and writers, and winning essays are published.

Past winners

• 2024See dovefoundationglobalchange.org for the 2024 cycle shortlist and winners.

The Foundation's Poetry Prize, awarded every other year, celebrates the voices of young women across the globe. It seeks to amplify voices from diverse cultures, experiences and communities. More than a competition, it is a platform to share work, celebrate creativity, and inspire others.

Entries may be submitted independently or by schools and parents on behalf of students. Poems must be the entrant's own original work, written primarily in English, with up to three poems per submission. AI-generated work is not eligible.

Past winners

• Past cyclesSee @dovefgc on Instagram for prior winners and featured poems.

Mabel Dove was the first woman elected to a legislative assembly anywhere in Africa, taking her seat in the Gold Coast Legislative Assembly in 1954 on the eve of Ghana's independence. Before politics she was one of the earliest women journalists on the continent, writing under her own name and under pseudonyms at a time when few women held a public byline.

The Mabel Dove Prize seeks out and rewards women who open public life to other women, in politics, in government and in the press, as Mabel Dove did. Submissions will open shortly.

Peter Kwamena Abbam was a high-ranking Ghanaian diplomat and ambassador. After attending Mfantsipim in Cape Coast, he read Political Economy at St John's College, Oxford. His career with the Ghana Foreign Service spanned the establishment of many of Ghana's missions abroad. Through diplomacy, he gave a newly independent Ghana a voice in circles it had previously been excluded from.

The Peter Abbam Prize seeks out and rewards those who use diplomatic approaches and methods to advance peace, development, and the rights and welfare of women and girls, as H.E. Peter Abbam did. Submissions will open shortly.

"A man who through devotion in his training built a career in diplomacy and brought peace and development wherever he went." — The Effutu Paramountcy

Our Without Violence programme. Legal Connect pairs survivors of violence against women and girls with pro-bono legal support, advice and clinical referrals through a structured network of lawyers, clinicians, and survivor advocates.

The UK pilot is currently in development. Initial expansion is planned across Europe and South America, with an emphasis on jurisdictions where survivors face barriers to disclosure, evidence and representation.

A leadership pipeline programme aimed at creating the next Mabel Doves, women who reshape the institutions deciding on the lives of others. The programme will offer structured pathways into policy, regulatory and multilateral roles for women earlier in their careers than is typical, alongside fellowships, advisory placements and convenings.

Practical clinics that help women and girls build CVs, prepare for interviews, and access workplace networks. Sessions are run in person and online, in partnership with corporate volunteers and local employers.