interviews at regional and country level revealed that the lack of gender materials in languages other than english also posed a problem gender net a peer informationsharing and problemsolving network for undp staff was initially set up as an emailbased platform later becoming an active network in addition communities of practice were established by each regional centre curated by regional gender advisorspractice leaders and these were subsequendy transferred to the teamworks platform participation dropped to from one year to the next according to statistics maintained by the knowledge management staff