Trainings

 This is a course on social norms, the rules that glue societies together. It teaches how to diagnose social norms, and how to distinguish them from other social constructs, like customs or conventions. These distinctions are crucial for effective policy interventions aimed to create new, beneficial norms or eliminate harmful ones. The course teaches how to measure social norms and the expectations that support them, and how to decide whether they cause specific behaviors. We also look at a variety of tools policy makers may use to effect change, highlight the role of trendsetters in social change, and the conditions under which they can be successful. The course is a joint Penn-UNICEF project, and it includes many examples of norms that sustain behaviors like child marriage, gender violence and sanitation practices.

This is Part 1 of the Social Norms, Social Change series.  In these lectures, I introduce all the basic concepts and definitions, such as social expectations and conditional preferences, that help us distinguish between different types of social practices like customs, descriptive norms and social norms. Expectations and preferences can be measured, and these lectures explain how to measure them. Measurement is crucial to understand the nature of the practice you are facing, but also whether an intervention was or was not successful, and why.  In Part 2, we will examine social change, the tools we may use to enact change, and put into practice all we have learned in Part 1. 

All students who successfully complete the course requirements will earn a Statement of Accomplishment free of cost.

In an effort to enhance the knowledge about the links between trade and gender among stakeholders in developing and transition countries, the UNCTAD Virtual Institute (Vi) and the UNCTAD Trade, Gender and Development Programme pooled their expertise to develop an online course on trade and gender. The course is based on Volume 1 of the jointly developed Vi teaching material on trade and gender, titled "Unfolding the links." The course targets academics (from universities and research centres), policymakers and representatives of civil society in developing countries and countries with economies in transition involved in research, teaching, policy formulation and implementation, advocacy or field work in the area of trade and gender. Qualified women candidates are particularly encouraged to apply.

El objetivo del curso será desarrollar los cuatro pilares en los que se sustenta el derecho humano a la identidad de género desde un enfoque sociológico y antropológico: despatologización, desjudicialización, desestigmatización y descriminalización.

El curso  será dictado por las investigadoras María Soledad Cutuli y Anahí Farji Neer.

This continuing education program for practitioners and students provides skills to address the full range of gender issues in development and humanitarian contexts.

How is the GDHA Diploma structured?

•10 courses covering all critical aspects of this field

•Five courses are CORE - including topics such as gender equality, gender in development, gender and humanitarian assistance

•Five courses are specialised - you select ONE specialisation to focus on:

1.Gender Integration supports mainstreaming of gender issues across development and humanitarian work

2.Gender-based Violence provides technical skills in GBV prevention, response, monitoring, and coordination

3.Gender and Conflict addresses the women, peace, and security agenda

•To get a diploma, complete the full 10 courses (with a minimum attendance of 80%) - this takes around six months, depending on courses and your own pace of learning

•It is possible to take individual courses - you'll receive certificates for those courses

•Each course requires 15 classroom hours and 15 hours of preparation and study

•Classes are on evenings and weekends - on the LAU Beirut campus (Lebanon) or remotely through web-conferencing - check the schedule for details