GTCoP - Community of Practice Training for Gender Equality

This Toolkit is primarily aimed at relevant staff of the United Nations system and has been designed in response to current gaps in women’s access to justice programming. This straddles the growing demand for technical assistance and the momentum for transformative change that is evolving from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Toolkit elaborates on the requisite capacities that are needed by both rights-holders and duty-bearers to claim their rights and to fulfil their obligations, respectively.

The UN Women Training Centre 2015 Annual Report highlights the work and the activities carried out by the Training Centre in 2015, a year of great growth and evolution for the Training Centre courses and its eLearning Campus. The Report details results from the 27 courses offered by the UN Women Training Centre. It also highlights the role of the Training Centre as a training resource hub by delivering Training of Trainers and holding and Expert Group Meeting on Training for Gender Equality. The Training Centre trained over 26,000 people through courses in their different modalities: self-paced, moderated, blended and face to face.

This guide is designed for facilitators and trainers working to incorporate gender perspectives in disaster risk reduction (DRR) programmes and initiatives. It is meant to assist workshop participants including practitioners and officials from the United Nations, national governments, civil society organizations (CSOs), and other institutions in gaining an understanding of the gendered impact of disasters. It also helps them learn how to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate gender-responsive DRR programmes and initiatives.

The training module serves as a guide for implementing a workshop that aims to build the capacity of HIV-positive women’s national networks with skills and strategic information to enable them to effectively address HIV response gaps and to meet universal access targets. It will enable women to use a human rights framework to advocate for their unique needs in access HIV services and to shape policies, guidelines and plans. The training focuses on the HIV epidemic in the context of the ASEAN region.

The Library on Women’s Political Participation at Local Level in Latin America and the Caribbean specializes in the political participation at the local level in Latin America and the Caribbean and has publications developed by the former INSTRAW on the subject. The resource is easy to use and allows to search for publications or information among the publications with much precision. The Library allows for publication searches on the basis of theme, region and utility, and also enables the user to search for key words or phrases.

The UN Women Training Centre 2017 Annual Report summarizes the Training Centre’s achievements in 2017. The year was one of growth and consolidation, as the Centre supported the delivery of UN Women’s mandate to promote gender equality by advancing training for gender equality as a strategy for individual and collective transformation. The report highlights some of the 82 courses delivered to over 51,300 participants – running the gamut from care work and safer cities to training on integrating a gender perspective into local development, transformative leadership and gender-responsive budgeting. It reflects the exponential growth of the eLearning Campus with its 52,000 participants, the sustained engagement of training practitioners by the Centre’s Community of Practice (CoP), and the publication of pioneering knowledge products to advance debates in the field of training for gender equality.

This toolkit aims to integrating a gender perspective into the work of the actors and institutions that comprise the security sector and its supporting structures. This was prepared by the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forcs (DCAF) and the UN Women Training Centre (former INSTRAW), and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights  (ODIHR), the Gender and Security Sector Reform Toolkit is an initial response to the need for more informaiton and analysis on gender and SSR processes.

This manual on gender and economics is intended to provide basic and intermediate level training to development practitioners including governments and policy and programme staff in international development agencies. The overall objective of the course is to strengthen the capacity of technical advisors and programme staff on the importance of gender-responsive economic policy.

The UN Women Training Centre 2018 Annual Report highlights the Training Centre’s achievements in 2018. The year was one of continued growth, as the Centre spearheaded training for gender equality as a catalyst for transformation – on a personal level, in communities, organizations and societies – in aid of UN Women’s mandate to promote gender equality worldwide. The report sheds light on some of the 87 courses delivered to over 53,500 participants –ranging from gender and the SDGs to transformative leadership, safe cities, GRB and the certification of gender trainers. It reflects how the Training Centre worked as a strategic ally for advancing capacities on gender equality by partnering with UN Women Country and Regional Offices, by fostering dialogue, and by producing evidence-based, practice-informed knowledge products. In these ways, the Training Centre advanced the potential of training for gender equality as a strategy for individual and collective transformation.

The 15th Virtual Dialogue hosted by the UN Women Training Centre’s Community of Practice on "Beijing+25 and Training for Gender Equality" explored why training for gender equality matters more than ever as we mark 25 years since the Beijing Platform for Action, and how we can use training for gender equality to elicit the change needed to address the unfinished business of Beijing. Given the expertise of the Virtual Dialogue Webinar panellists, this report looks at training for gender equality in the cross-cutting area of gender statistics, and two of the Beijing Platform for Action’s 12 critical areas of concern: violence against women, and women and the environment. The report sheds light on how training can be used to advance pathways for change in areas key to the PFA, and highlights ways forward to expand transformative training to respond to real needs on the ground.