Trainings

This self-paced course  enhances participants' understanding of the relevance of CEDAW - Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women - and its application in their daily work. 

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.

The course can be completed online in 4-6 hours, involving dynamic multimedia components (videos, quizzes, infographics, case studies, etc). A certificate of completion is given at the end of the course if participants' score over 80% on the final test.