Introduction: Innovations in Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Understanding the Role of International Development Volunteers as Transnational Actors

This articles serves as introduction to a special issue published in Voluntaris under the same title. It conceptualizes international development volunteers as development actors and identifies gaps in knowledge about their contributions. The article also introduces a collaborative and participatory study undertaken by an international team of scholars to examine those contributions to gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Project: Contributions of International Volunteering to Gender Equality