Trainings

The Gender Academy on Gender, Inclusion and the Future of Work offers a global forum to learn from high-level international experts, discuss and share experience with practitioners and test practical approaches and innovative methodologies. It focuses on how we can step-up actions to achieve gender equality and diversity inclusion, which are essential to deliver on the promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The course is available in English, French and Spanish. 

This online eLearning training programme will introduce participants to the operating principles and most commonly used strategies and tools for integrating a gender dimension into budgetary processes. Starting with the basics of gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) involving an analysis of the budgeting cycle, the course will discuss how an organization's commitment to gender equality can (and should) be supported by setting budgetary priorities intended to achieve gender equality, diversity and inclusion, as well as effective use of budget funds. The main topics for discussion will be: Why gender matters; Gender-responsive budgets: Principles and definitions; GRB and the budget cycle framework: Key steps and outputs; Tools for GRB: Costing gender equality, diversity and inclusion. Organizations can use this course during the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic to put in place policies and practices that can support gender equality, diversity and inclusion in the long-term.

El curso en línea sobre Vínculos entre Comercio y Género con miras al Comercio Electrónico desde una Perspectiva de Género y de Desarrollo se ofrecerá exclusivamente en español durante un periodo de cinco semanas. El curso está dirigido a responsables políticos, académicos de universidades y centros de investigación, y representantes de la sociedad civil que participan en la formulación y aplicación de políticas, la investigación, la enseñanza, la promoción o el trabajo de campo en el ámbito del comercio y el género. El objetivo del curso es proporcionar a los participantes los conocimientos necesarios para analizar la relación bidireccional entre el comercio y el género y, en última instancia, proponer recomendaciones de políticas con enfoque de género. A tal fin, el curso presenta los conceptos de comercio y género, y combina aspectos teóricos sobre la interacción entre el comercio y el género con constataciones empíricas.

El Programa certifica la adquisición de las competencias técnicas necesarias para realizar las Auditorías Participativas de Género de la OIT. Las personas certificadas podrán actuar como facilitadores/as formalmente acreditados por la OIT para ejecutar Auditorías Participativas de Género.  La Certificación comprobará su capacidad de: 

• Identificar y coordinar equipos de facilitación de auditorías Aplicar una perspectiva de género al trabajo analítico 
• Detectar y mapear la discriminación en el trabajo 
• Gestionar la resistencia al cambio Identificar estrategias para promover el desarrollo de capacidades, la creación de lugares de trabajo más inclusivos, mejorar la comunicación, fortalecer la estructura organizacional en temas de género, igualdad y diversidad, y abogar por el cambio 
• Analizar los sistemas e instrumentos de programación, ejecución, monitoreo, rendición de cuentas, evaluación y seguimiento existentes en todo tipo de organización Identificar nuevos retos y posibles áreas de mejora para la igualdad de género y la gestión del cambio 
• Armar y coordinar equipos de facilitación de Auditorías Participativas de Género

La formación se dirige a personas con conocimentos de género interesadas a fortalecer sus capacidades de ejecución y facilitación de auditorías de género aplicando la metodologia de la OIT, como instrumento para reforzar la transversalización de la dimensión de género en las organizaciones, en las políticas y en las agendas de los actores sociales.

During this UNDIS focal point capacity-building programme, participants will explore how to successfully promote disability inclusion through the UNDIS framework. The course includes live virtual sessions with international experts and self-guided online modules, covering strategies and tools for identifying and addressing obstacles to achieving disability inclusion in the work context. This interactive course is designed for UN staff members who have been designated as UNDIS focal points, as well as colleagues directly working on UNDIS implementation in their organizations (entity and country-team level).

This hands-on e-workshop aims to provide participants with practical knowledge and tools for action by exploring key ingredients for a workplace policy on violence and harassment that is aligned with the new ILO instruments, and be guided to use them to design a policy that works for you and your organization. Where do you begin when designing a policy to combat violence and harassment in the workplace? What are the key factors when aiming to align with the principles enshrined in ILO Convention No. 190 and Recommendation No. 206? How do you turn policy into practice: assessing and managing risks, setting up committees, investigating complaints, training staff, supporting victims, analysing data and so on? What are the existing good practices and success stories? This hands-on e-workshop aims to provide participants with practical knowledge and tools for action.

The certification will provide facilitators with a method of organizational analysis for detecting and mapping discrimination at work, analysing accountability, evaluating and monitoring systems and instruments, developing a change-management approach, action planning, and identifying new challenges and possible improvements.

This course aims to build the capacity of constituents to promote gender equality in the various forms of social dialogue. This will contribute to the inclusion of these issues in the social dialogue agenda and to the achievement of agreements aimed at promoting gender equity in the world of work, in keeping with the UN's SDG 5. To this end, we will use new training methodologies, including a toolbox for labour relations that enables participants to intervene in an interactive way and concretely reflect and practice approaches to social dialogue and gender equality.

To increase awareness of the links between trade and gender among stakeholders in developing and least developed countries, UNCTAD has developed a portfolio of online courses on trade and gender. This edition of the course will be offered in English over a period of five weeks, from 13 March to 16 April 2023. The objective of the course is to provide participants with the knowledge needed to analyse the two-way relationship between trade and gender, and ultimately produce gender-aware policy recommendations. To this end, the course introduces the concepts of trade and gender, and combines theory on the interaction between trade and gender with empirical evidence. The course is open to stakeholders from developing and least developed countries and to a limited number of stakeholders from developed countries. It will be managed and tutored by the Trade, Gender and Development Programme of UNCTAD.