GTCoP - Community of Practice Training for Gender Equality

This updated version of the Gender Handbook in Humanitarian Action offers practical guidance to ensure that gender equality and women’s empowerment are mainstreamed throughout the assessment, planning, resource mobilization, implementation and monitoring stages of the humanitarian programme cycle. It is an important resource that will help humanitarian actors build on commitments to gender equality in humanitarian action, with the aim of delivering more effective, rights-based programming. 

This page highlights the content on the XY website on engaging men in violence prevention, from short overviews and introductions to the issue of violence against women to tools to engage men in preventing and ending gender-based violence.

The EHM Youth Engagement Toolkit is designed for youth-led, youth-serving organizations to integrate post-rape care messages into already existing sexual and reproductive health education and advocacy efforts. It is a powerful tool for youth-led organizations, helping them to facilitate meaningful workshops in their communities with young people who may be vulnerable to, or have already experienced sexual violence. While this toolkit was completed with specific inputs from young people in Uganda and Kenya, its materials can be adapted and modified to suit other countries and regions around the world. 

This Toolkit provides tools for youth-led organizations to facilitate meaningful workshops in their communities with young people who may be vulnerable to, or have already experienced sexual violence. It is designed to help users integrate post-rape care messages into already existing sexual and reproductive health education and advocacy efforts. While this toolkit was completed with specific inputs from young people in Uganda and Kenya, its materials can be adapted and modified to suit other countries and regions around the world.

This guide explores what transformative leadership for women’s rights means in practice, and how it links to women’s rights and gender justice. It explores what distinguishes transformative leadership from other forms of leadership, and how change differs from transformation. It also explains why transformative leadership is important for Oxfam, and what the organization is trying to achieve by promoting it and how transformative leadership can be applied in programmes and organizations. This guide is intended as a resource that will inform and inspire the work of Oxfam staff and partners.

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.

This guidebook aims to provide actors in Gaza with guidance on gender analysis, planning and actions to ensure that the needs, contributions and capacities of women, girls, boys and men are considered in all aspects of humanitarian response. It also offers checklists to assist in monitoring gender equality programming.  The target audience for this guidebook are field practitioners responding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

The purpose of the training manual is to raise awareness of gender equality in governments and civil society in the Southern Caucasus, Central and South Asia through support to the implementation of CEDAW and UNSC resolutions on Women, Peace and Security. It will increase awareness of the obligations under CEDAW and UNSCRs 1325, 1820, 1888, 1889, 1960, and the “how” of the national application of these obligations. It also aims to improve understanding on the linkages between the core principles found in CEDAW and UNSCRs.

This Gender and Security Sector Reform (SSR) Training Resource Package is designed to provide the audience with a wide range of exercises, discussion topics and examples from the ground that the audience can adapt and integrate into SSR training. In addition to having a specific exercise or session on gender and SSR, taking a few moments to look through this guide can help to mainstream gender issues throughout training. It provides practical tips on integrating gender into the entire SSR training cycle—from conducting a training needs assessment to monitoring and evaluation.

This Library specializes in the political participation at the local level in Latin America and the Caribbean and includes publications developed by the former INSTRAW on the subject. The resource is easy to use and allows users to search for publications and/or information with precision. It enables searches on the basis of themes, regions and utility, as well as permitting users to search for key words or phrases. The Library is aimed at research centres, technical personnel working on local development, local government associations, elected authorities, including women elected authorities, women’s organizations and the United Nations system.