Trainings

This training course aims to strengthen capacity and knowledge of leaders and managers to advance gender equality, women's empowerment, and women's rights agenda within their organizational contexts. It seeks to strengthen leaders' and managers' use of gender-inclusive and transformative leadership principles and practices to address institutional gender biases and promote commitments to gender equality and women's rights. The course will be delivered twice in 2017: 

• Option 1: 03 – 07 July 2017 Geneva, Switzerland (Register by 19 May 2017)
  
• Option 2 will be held in Kenya in September. 

The course will centre on the following modules: 

• Module 1: Purpose, Principles and Power as a gender-inclusive transformative leader with vision for change 
  
• Module 2: Inspiring and Enabling Others to Act to transform teams/organizations to be gender-inclusive and advance gender justice and equality 
  
• Module 3: Priorities for Transformative Action on Gender Equality in planning for context specific actionable ideas to build stronger organizational cultures, programs and strategies
  

The course is geared to senior managers who work in private and public sector organizations that have a commitment to gender equality. It is designed for those with managerial roles and responsibilities, and/or with functions to provide strategic or visionary guidance to their offices/ organisations. 

To learn more about the course, please see the course PDF flyer.

Participants will explore participatory gender auditing (PGA) tools and their versatile use in small and large organizations. In this advanced course, we shall be exploring innovative methods.
Target audience:

Gender experts, individuals who have attended previous ITCILO PGA training or have already carried out gender audits within organizations. Governmental, United Nations and civil society staff, gender experts and staff involved in mainstreaming gender in their organizations.

Join us for the Care Economy Lectures, a series of online lectures by international guest speakers on care, care work, and the care economy. The lecture series complements the Training Centre's Why We Care About Care course, and will be of particular benefit for development practitioners, researchers, policy makers and advocates who are working on economic empowerment, public policy, and gender equality.

The online lectures will be held on: 

• Tuesday 23rd May: 9-10.30 NYC time (English lecture) and 11.30-13 (Spanish)
• Tuesday 30th May: 9-10.30 NYC time (English lecture) and 11.30-13 (Spanish)
• Tuesday 6th June: 9-10.30 NYC time (English lecture) and 11.30-13 (Spanish) 
• Tuesday 27th June: 9-10.30 NYC time (English lecture) and 11.30-13 (Spanish)
  

This course aims to provide a global perspective on care, care work, and care economy. It will enhance awareness, knowledge and understanding on the critical place care work occupies in development, while simultaneously providing skills and tools for analyzing and identifying types of interventions and policies for a fair and equal social organization of care to advance human development, gender equality and women's empowerment. Download the flyer here.

El propósito de este curso es ofrecer una perspectiva global de los cuidados, y el trabajo y la economía de cuidados. Concientizará, profundizará los conocimiento y la comprensión del papel crucial que los cuidados tienen en el desarrollo, al mismo tiempo que proporciona aptitudes y herramientas para el análisis e identificación de tipos de intervenciones y políticas para lograr una organización social justa e igualitaria de cuidados que ayude al avance del desarrollo humano, la igualdad de género y el empoderamiento de las mujeres. Descargue el flolleto aquí.

This training course will analyse the aspects and root causes of discrimination in the world of work and discuss strategies for overcoming barriers to workplace equality, promoting diversity inclusion and helping organizations identify common values and purpose. The workshop provides an opportunity for participants to identify and explore steps they can personally take in their day-to-day work as well as collective action required within their respective institutions. Topics will include: "Diversity in the world of work: what and why"; "Discrimination and equality: ILO Convention no. 111 and no. 1000"; "Managing diversity and preventing discrimination: strategies, workplace policies and measures"; "Focus on disability"; "Focus on gender"; and "Focus on LGBTI".

Objectives:

The workshop aims to provide tools for participants to address exclusion and discrimination in its various forms, so that to create inclusive and productive workplaces. At the end of the workshop participants will be able to:

• Recognize the various forms of discrimination in the world of work, including systemic, multiple and intersectional discrimination
  
• Describe strategies to address discrimination and exclusion in the world of work
  
• Identify tools and methods to create more inclusive workplaces

This e-learning course introduces participants to general definitions, concepts and normative and legal frameworks related to gender-based violence (GBV). It will cover forms, causes and consequences of GBV in conflict contexts, as well as on an endemic basis. The course also focuses on prevention and response programming; models underpinning mainstreaming and targeted actions on GBV; and the need for coordinated approaches. The course seeks to provide basic knowledge and skills on GBV to staff of international humanitarian and development organisations aiming to deepen their understanding and engagement on GBV responsive programming. 

Specifically, course participants will: 

• define and describe definitions and forms of GBV, and its causes and consequences; 
  
• gain a generic understanding of different approaches to preventing and responding to GBV, including mainstreaming and specific actions on GBV;  and 
  
• enhance their knowledge on the key models that underpin programming approaches, including key elements of promoting coordinated action on GBV.
  

This course is designed as a basic introduction to Gender Based Analysis+ (GBA+). Participants learn to: 

• Define the key concepts of GBA+ and recognize how various identity factors can influence the experience of federal government initiatives;
• Identify how GBA+ can enhance the responsiveness, effectiveness and outcomes of federal government initiatives while applying some foundational GBA+ concepts and processes. 

How can organizations become gender responsive and transformative? The presence of more women does not automatically mean greater equality. This course analyses success stories and barriers, and goes deeper by looking at gender as part of an organizational change management strategy rather than a stand-alone item on the agenda.
Target audience: 
Leaders and managers at all levels in the public sector; aid organizations; UN organizations; the private sector; the non-profit sector; gender and HR specialists.

This training course, which is delivered both online and residentially in Turin, will provide GFPs with an introduction to the UN gender architecture and explore strategies and tools for identifying and addressing gender equality obstacles within the UN. It will examine gender mainstreaming tools (such as gender markers and the UN system-wide policy on gender equality) and their concrete application and build a community of practice within the UN to foster discussion and sharing of good practices.
Target audience:
UN System GFPs and gender facilitators tasked with supporting and promoting gender integration in their work units and agencies.
Distance and residential phases:

Online phase: 24 April to 12 May, 2017 Residential phase in Turin: 15 to 19 May, 2017