An introduction to CEDAW
An Introduction to CEDAW
Learning Modality:Self-paced
Date: Available online all year
Duration: Approximately 5 hours for the 5 modules required to receive the course certificate.
Language: English and French
Tuition fee: Free
The objective of this course is to enhance the capacity of UN programme staff at national, regional and global offices, to support the implementation of CEDAW by national counterparts via:
- Increased knowledge about CEDAW, including its core principles, core obligations of States parties to CEDAW, the reporting cycle, domestication of CEDAW at national level, and the use of the optional protocol to CEDAW.
- Enhanced skills to apply the substantive framework of CEDAW in legislative, policy and institutional analysis and incorporate CEDAW in programming and policy advocacy work.
- Strengthened awareness of women’s rights violations and gender inequality and strengthened commitment to promote women’s human rights and gender equality.
- An introduction to CEDAW: A dynamic human rights instrument for addressing discrimination against women
- Key principles and Core Obligations
- Domestic application of CEDAW
- Reporting to the CEDAW Committee
- What is the Optional Protocol of CEDAW?
The primary audience of this course are UN programme staff at national, regional and global offices. The secondary audience entails senior officers at UN national, regional and global offices, government officials and civil society
Essential Services Package for Women and Girls Subject to Violence
Learning Modality: Self-paced
Date: Available online all year
Duration: Approximately 50 minutes each module
Language: English
Tuition fee: Free
To provide an overview of the Essential Services Package for Women and Girls Subject to Violence: Core Elements and Quality Guidelines launched in 2015 by UN Women, UNFPA, WHO, UNDP and UNODC. These Guidelines identify comprehensive essential actions to be provided by the health, justice and policing and social services sectors, as well as guidance for the coordination of essential services, for women and girls who have experienced violence. The Guidelines are a practical tool which aim to support countries as they work to design, implement and review existing services for women and girls who are survivors of violence, in a wide range of settings.
The course is devided into following modules:
- Overview and Introduction
- Health Services
- Justice and Policing
- Social Services
- Coordination and Governance of Coordination
The course primarily targets practitioners, those individuals working in key line ministries and organizations that provide support to survivors of violence in the social, health and police and justice sectors. The package is also useful for UN agencies, civil society and others or who are interested in this area and want to learn more about how to support women and girls who have experienced violence.
UNFPA, WHO, UNDP and UNODC.
Gender equality pathway for Managers and Programme and Admin staff
Learning Modality: Self-paced
Date: Available online all year
Duration: Approximately 10 hours
Language: English
Tuition fee: FREE
The overall objective of this learning pathway is to provide development practitioners the opportunity to build and/or enhance their expertise in the area of gender equality and women’s empowerment. Working towards this end, all learning pathway participants are, as a start, trained in common gender concepts, the human rights-based approach and the strategy of gender mainstreaming, as well as the UN’s work on gender equality.
The learning pathway also considers staffs’ employment in distinct branches and provides access to suitable material for programme and operations staff and managers.
How to Manage Gender-responsive Evaluation
Learning Modality:Self-paced
Date: Available online all year
Duration: Approximately 9 hours
Language: English
Tuition fee: Free
This eLearning course is part of the UN Women professionalization initiative to strengthen the evaluation function, a comprehensive, hands-on programme aimed at developing core competencies in managing gender-responsive evaluation for UN Women staff. Created with contributions from UN Women staff located around the world, the initiative is comprised of the UN Women Evaluation Handbook, an eLearning course, and a coaching programme. The professionalization initiative was developed in collaboration between the Independent Evaluation Office, Human Resources and the Training Centre.
The course is divided into the following modules:
- Introduction to gender-responsive evaluation
- How to plan evaluations at UN Women
- How to prepare for gender-responsive evaluation
- Establishing the terms of reference for the evaluation
- Gender responsive evaluation design
- Managing the evaluation conduct
- Ensuring high quality reports
- Evaluation use and follow up
- Communicating evaluation results
This course is open to anyone around the world, the primary audience is UN Women staff, in particular M&E Officers/focal points and other staff that manage evaluations, and the senior management involved in evaluation processes.
Implementation of the Security Council Resolutions on the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda
Learning Modality:Self-paced
Date: Available online all year
Duration: Approximately 4.5 hours
Language: English, French and Spanish
Tuition fee: Free
The aim of this three-course suite is to raise awareness of the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security in order to build capacities for its implementation at the regional and national levels.
The aim of this three-course suite is to raise awareness of the seven UN Security Council Resolutions on Women, Peace, and Security in order to build capacities for their implementation and to promote sustainable practices and policies at the regional and national levels. Each course focuses on the efforts, challenges, and prospects of this agenda in their respective world regions: Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Each course focuses on the efforts, challenges, and prospects of building capacities for their implementations in their respective world regions: Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean. The courses introduce the participants to the specific women, peace and security issues in the respective regions and specific entry points towards the implementation of the resolution provisions.
The courses were especially designed for people who work in the area of peace and security in each of the three geographic regions and who require a practical tool to support and facilitate the implementation of the women, peace, and security agenda.
Introduction to Care Economy
Learning Modality:Self-paced
Date: Available online all year
Duration: Approximately 3 hours for the 4 modules required to receive the course certificate.
Language: Language: English, Frenchand Spanish
Tuition fee: US$ 60.00
To provide an introduction on care, care work, and care economy. It will enhance awareness, knowledge and understanding on the critical place care occupies in human development, gender equality and women’s empowerment.
The course is divided into the following modules:
- What is care?
- How is care organized?
- Problems with care
- Fixing care
All who are interested to learn about care economy and women’s economic empowerment.
Learning Pathway on Transformative Leadership for Gender Equality
Learning Modality: Self-paced
Date: Available online all year
Duration: Approximately 15 hours
Language: English
Tuition fee: FREE
Expert strategic influence, leadership and advocacy for gender equality in ways appropriate to their level to move a range of organizational processes in gender-inclusive directions. Model good leadership practice in their own performance, and encourage it in the work of others, so that the organisational culture is improved and all can achieve stronger gender-equality results.