Coming together, women and male allies will be able to formulate strategies for change, channel their voices and challenge existing power structures. It will reach out to government bodies, religious, community-based and other organizations that can have a positive impact on de jure and de facto gender equality. At the collective level, CHANGE will be promoted by supporting women's networks, movements and human rights organizations. At the individual level, the project will target both women and men to shift discriminatory attitudes and stereotypes, in particular toward women's leadership and empowerment. The project activates CHANGE at the individual, collective and institutional levels. It is an intervention that creates opportunities for individuals and institutions to actively challenge gender norms, promote positions of social and political influence for women in communities, and address power inequalities between persons of different genders in five project target countries.

Thus, the CHANGE project integrates the most prominent elements and approaches from across ODIHR's mandate required to address the existing obstacles to gender equality. Further considerable advances depend on gender transformative approaches. It attempts to address the status quo where the desired change in advancing gender equality has not yet materialized fully. The CHANGE project is designed as a policy and innovation project. The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is implementing a 'Capitalizing on Human Dimension Mandate to Advance Gender Equality (CHANGE)” project.

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