International and transnational commitments to gender equality require strategies that tackle root causes and prevailing attitudes that perpetuate disparities. In this article, we examine the role and impact of international development volunteers (IDV) as development actors who are well-placed for feminist transformational change, as they work in transnational spaces to influence, support, or reinforce changes in attitudes and behaviors towards gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE). This qualitative study analyses data collected from 45 interviews in three countries (Malawi, Kenya and Uganda) to document partner organization perspectives on relational dynamics emerging from interactions with IDVs. Partner organization staff highlighted several notable positive and negative contributions to GEWE outcomes arising from day-to-day interactions with IDVs. These interactions shaped their understandings of GEWE, enhanced confidence for GEWE programming, and provided exposure to role models who can shape alternative attitudes and behaviors to gender equality. While the study revealed varying degrees of challenges and benefits for partner organizations working with volunteers specifically on gender equality, partner organization staff highlighted contributions made by IDVs to transnational spatial relations, as well as the transformational interactions that shaped these relations. Insights provided by partner country staff members offer subaltern perspectives and rich insights into the contributions of IDVs in gender equality programming and shed new light on the challenges and opportunities for fostering transnational feminist spaces of knowledge sharing, relationship building, and alternative practices.

对两性平等的国际和跨国承诺要求采取能够消除根源和长期存在的使差异悬而未决的战略。在本文中，我们将探讨国际发展志愿者（IDV）作为发展角色的角色和影响，这些角色在女权主义变革中处于有利位置，因为他们在跨国空间中工作以影响，支持或加强对性别的态度和行为的变化平等与妇女赋权（GEWE）。这项定性研究分析了从三个国家（马拉维，肯尼亚和乌干达）进行的45次访谈中收集的数据，以记录合作伙伴组织对与IDV互动产生的关系动态的观点。合作伙伴组织的工作人员强调了与IDV的日常互动对GEWE结果产生了一些明显的正面和负面影响。这些互动塑造了他们对GEWE的理解，增强了他们对GEWE编程的信心，并使他们接触了可以塑造性别平等的替代态度和行为的榜样。该研究揭示了与志愿人员一起致力于性别平等的伙伴组织在不同程度上面临的挑战和收益，而伙伴组织的工作人员则强调了IDV对跨国空间关系的贡献以及形成这些关系的转型互动。