GTCoP - Community of Practice Training for Gender Equality

This booklet showcases a selected series of 12 outstanding essays on the care economy, provided by training course participants from around the world. Its overall goal is to develop further in-depth knowledge of the current reality of care-giving and receiving care; how care is linked to inequalities between women and men; and how the care economy fits into the global development model. This booklet aims to raise awareness and enhance knowledge of gender and care work - it contributes to global discussions on promoting the right to care and women’s rights through revealing case studies of care work.

Este manual representa una herramienta para las mujeres de cara a potenciar sus habilidades negociadoras y encontrar su espacio dentro del ámbito del Comercio Exterior. El libro destaca la diferencia que existe en los estilos de negociación entre hombres y mujeres e analiza los factores básicos a considerar en la negociación internacional. Destaca las virtudes y los errores que más común-mente cometemos las mujeres y detallaré consejos para la consecución del éxito en la negociación internacional. 

This working paper explores the UN Women Training Centre's aim to develop a professional course to certify gender trainers, in order to ensure that trainers deliver high quality training in line with feminist principles and pedagogic frameworks. The paper also offers a brief literature review outlining current thinking about gender trainers, and maps initiatives by various organisations to train and certify trainers. The paper argues that an approach to gender training, and therefore gender trainers as the mediators of training, needs to take into account feminist ways of thinking and practice, such as reflexivity, working with resistances, intersectionality and praxis.

These four Working Papers – on Theory of Change; Feminist Pedagogies; Quality Assurance; and Education and Training for Gender Equality – aim to promote debate and exchange among stakeholders and practitioners in the field of training for gender equality. The Introduction to the Working Paper series ties these contributions together, demonstrating how they interact as core elements of training for gender equality; highlighting key themes in the papers: core principles; the importance of the training cycle; and a flexible and context-specific approach to training. These issues are reflected upon by each working paper, which explore these four key subjects with a view to furthering the development of high quality training for gender equality.

This compilation of good practices in training for gender equality aims to make an empirical and analytical contribution to the field. The in-depth information it offers on 10 exemplary good practices includes outlines of training courses, examples of dealing with challenges and a collection of tools and activities. Drawing on these experiences, the analytical introduction reflects on the politics and practice of training for gender equality – specifically, the diverse nature of training for gender equality; theories of change; long-term change projects; budgets; participatory planning and learning; balancing theory and practice; contextual sensitivity; facilitator characteristics; modes/modalities of learning; and monitoring and evaluation.

This classification of different types of training for gender equality aims to support training commissioners to plan, develop, design, deliver and evaluate training-related activities more strategically and realistically. The document provides a brief introduction on the need for clearer terminology in the sphere of training for gender equality; outlines five broad “types” of training (awareness-raising and consciousness-building; knowledge enhancement; skills training; change in attitudes, behaviours and practices; and mobilisation for social transformation). It then connects these types to the stages of the training cycle, while reflecting on issues like modalities, methodologies, methods, audiences, facilitators, time-frames and budgets. An annex of key terms is also provided.

This training manual aims to support capacity development for stakeholders in the Philippines’ legal and judicial system to support greater understanding of CEDAW and further a rights-based gender sensitive approach to women’s rights. It is a reference point for judges, lawyers, court attorneys, law schools and other members of the legal profession. Its modules aim to develop sensitivity and awareness of gender inequality; "gender-fair" language; the relationship between CEDAW and national courts; and offers a series of case studies and secondary materials.

This manual provides development professionals with the gender analysis tools and concepts to facilitate local empowerment and capacity building, thus making their own work more effective and attuned to the needs of local people. Its approach aims to facilitate community involvement in the conceptualization, planning, and implementation of projects; encourage community mobilization; and ensure the participation of women and men. The manual assists users in visualizing the interconnectedness processes of environmental, social and economic change; the relevance of social factors like gender in determining control over resources; and understanding gender relations, social structures and resource bases when working with communities.

This publication offers a critical review of what gender training represents and how it relates and contributes to the successes and failures of gender mainstreaming since the late 1990s. Its chapters, contributed by a range of global gender experts, reflect on diverse perspectives – from India, Uganda, the Maghreb region, and the Francophone world. Overall, the book explores the explicit and implicit assumptions in gender training about the nature of knowledge (epistemology), imparting knowledge (pedagogy) and knowing (cognition). Its central aim is to promote and contribute to critical reflection on gender education and training.

This study maps the policies and practices of gender training in the European Union. It offers an overview of the field of gender training at the international, EU, and EU Member State levels; identifies good practices in gender training; and provides examples of proven effective methods of delivering gender training in the EU. The document also outlines international, European and national policy commitments; the scale of gender training programmes and activities at the international and European levels; the profile of gender trainers; key developments and debates in gender training; the main elements of training programmes; remaining challenges; and recommendations for moving forward.