D5.6 Methodology from SPEAR's CoP

SPEAR’s Community of Practice (CoP) forms one half of SPEAR’s learning and support cycle, the other half being SPEAR’s Community of Learning (CoL). These two communities are carefully designed to interconnect and supplement each other in forging a strong, dynamic and coherent framework and foundation for supporting the learning, collaboration and practice of SPEAR’s members individually and together. SPEAR’s CoL-CoP support cycle are the heart of SPEAR’s orientation towards enabling the participating practitioners to succeed in their Gender Equality (GE) work and towards long-term sustainability of their GE endeavours and communities. SPEAR’s Community of Practice (CoP) comprises a number of activities centered on providing the partners with a platform for open and structured exchanges of (individual, embodied) experiences and insights gathered during the development and implementation of Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) in addition to support and inspiration for practical implementation to match partners’ emerging needs. This deliverable explains SPEAR’s CoP-methodology including the explanation on background, design and necessity of SPEAR’s CoP.