GTCoP - Community of Practice Training for Gender Equality

Objective of the Programme was to:

• Educate, inform and mobilize audiences—collectively and individually—to build and adopt new patterns of masculinity and femininity, new behaviours and partner and family roles. 
• Challenge stereotypical patterns of masculinity and femininity. 
• Educate and mobilize institutional and social actors to prevent GBV, detect it early and act.

Este manual sobre las auditorías participativas de género (APG) de la OIT pretende guiar a los facilitadoras/es en cada etapa del proceso y culmina con un conjunto de recomendaciones y un plan de acción para mejorar la estrategia de integración transversal del enfoque de género en una estructura orgánica. El manual es como una guía de formación para la incorporación del enfoque transversal de género en las diversas instituciones. Pretende a contribuir a la creación de capacidades entre quienes consideran decisiva la autoevaluación a través de un método participativo que fortalezca el proceso de aprendizaje de la organización, en particular, para avanzar hacia la igualdad de género. El manual está digirido a los mandantes de la OIT, los organismos de las Naciones Unidas, los grupos de mujeres y demás organizaciones de la sociedad civil.

This manual on the ILO’s participatory gender audits presents a step-by-step guide for facilitators, alongside a set of recommendations and an action plan to enhance gender mainstreaming as a strategy within organizations. It represents a guide for incorporating gender as a transversal, mainstreamed approach in diverse institutions. Overall, it seeks to develop capacities for self-evaluation and evaluation using participatory methods, so as to strengthen organizational learning processes in pursuit of gender equality. The document is directed at ILO staff, UN agencies, civil society, women's groups, and other organisations. (Available only in Spanish)

This account of a security sector workshop explores ways in which to overcome the challenges experienced by gender trainers in the field of gender and security. The document contains a sizeable collection of tried-and-tested training exercises, as well as an extensive list of additional resources – from publications to short videos and other audio-visual training materials. It offers lessons learned drawn from the experiences and ideas of gender training experts, who participated in the workshop to share global good practices in delivering gender training to defence, police and security-related audiences. As such, the document is a useful reference point to inform and inspire gender trainers around the world.

Gender inequality and violence against women affect the lives of every person, regardless of age or gender. This course aims to assist peacekeeping personnel to promote the human rights and security of women and girls. It does so through lessons emphasizing the nature and scope of violence against women and girls around the globe, the connections between gender inequality and violence in both public and domestic spaces, as well as on interpersonal, community, national, regional, and international levels. Other lessons cover women's rights as human rights and the international UN mandate to involve women in key roles within peacemaking and peacebuilding processes at every stage and every level of authority. Readings and case studies provide examples to assist peacekeeping personnel with considering how they, as individuals and as teams, can work to promote gender equality and to change the attitudes and behaviours that perpetuate violence. Ten lessons.

This self-directed ecourse provides the basic steps a humanitarian worker must take to ensure gender equality in programming. The course includes information on the core issues of gender and how it relates to other aspects of humanitarian response, including camp management and coordination, education, food issues, gender-based violence, health, livelihoods, non-food items, protection, shelter, water, sanitation, and hygiene.

This training manual aims to develop the capacity of individuals and organisations to address specific gender and HIV vulnerabilities in migration settings. The manual seels to equip all participants with the skills needed to develop strategies and programmes that contribute to broader social change. It can be used both as a train the trainer (ToT) tool and as an “on-the-ground” tool for facilitators in different settings. It is intended to be used in training settings, but can also function as a resource or guidelines for those working on issues of migration, gender, HIV, sexuality, health, violence, human rights and citizenship.

This guide supports those who work with, and/or advocate for women, especially women with controlling or abusive partners or ex-partners. It offers guidance on what to do when a woman is ready to reach out for help; how to be ready to understand her situation; offer guidance; and ensure her safety and recovery. It also aims to help busy individuals learn or up-grade their skills, in consideration of their multiple commitments. Rather than prescribing solutions, the guide offers principles for interventions; flexible, practical tools; and guidance on skills development, while consistently considering each woman’s unique context and needs.

Este Manual tiene como propósito apoyar procesos de planificación participativa a nivel comunitario. A través del uso de las herramientas propuestas en este documento se pretende identificar factores claves del desarrollo; comprender las estrategias de supervivencia de las distintas personas; y lograr consenso en cuanto a las prioridades de desarrollo y a los planes de acción. El Manual incorpora ideas y métodos de varias personas de distintas regiones del mundo que comparten un compromiso con el desarrollo participativo. Como propuesta analítica pretende además facilitar la revisión de factores clave del desarrollo y la identificación participativa de las prioridades d mujeres y hombres del área rural. 

This manual aims to support participatory planning processes at the community level. Using the tools proposed by the document can help to identify key development factors; understand different people’s survival strategies; and achieve consensus on development priorities and action plans. The handbook incorporates ideas and methods by stakeholders from different world regions, all of whom share a commitment to participatory development. As an analytical work, it is seeks to facilitate assessments of key development factors and the participatory identification of rural women’s and men's priorities. 

El manual tiene por objetivos: sensibilizar y reflexionar sobre la violencia hacia las mujeres en las ciudades, brindar información acerca de la legislación vigente en el ámbito nacional e internacional respecto de los derechos de las mujeres a una vida sin violencia, transferir pautas metodológicas básicas para la atención e intervención en situaciones de violencia hacia las mujeres, por parte de organismos que tienen una responsabilidad específica en la construcción de ciudades más seguras.

This report sheds light on how to train teachers to promote gender equality by eliminating discrimination. It is an account of the 2003 “Development for Enhancing the Gender Sensitive Teaching” training programme, conducted by the Korean Women’s Development Institute (KWDI), which equipped teachers to enhance gender equality “consciousness” and implement gender equality education. This document presents an overview of the programme, the results of classroom observation and lesson learned. It offers insights on training teachers to make gender equality a core part of education; integrating the experiences and needs of female and male students into all educational practices; and enabling students to overcome traditional gender relations through education.