GEM-IWG is an international network of economists that was formed in 1994 for the purpose of promoting research, teaching, policy making and advocacy on gender-equitable approaches to macroeconomics, international economics and globalization. The 2006 Program on Knowledge Networking and Capacity Building on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics, which was inaugurated in the summer of 2003, has two objectives: first, to engage with fellow economists in order to enhance capacity building in research, teaching, policy making and advocacy in this area; second, to strengthen the intellectual links among practitioners in networks working on similar issues.