GTCoP - Community of Practice Training for Gender Equality

This toolkit is designed to help nonpartisan citizen election observer groups assess and mitigate the impact of violence against women throughout an election cycle. Specifically, the toolkit outlines the key information these observer groups will need to carry out a long-term observation that combines violence monitoring with a prevention and mitigation component—a best practice to stop and address violence against women in elections.

This research brief provides background and good practice options or modalities that civil society can draw in in the first phase of planning their advocacy planning for a National Action Plan (NAP) on Women, Peace and Security. The brief outlines different modalities of engagement, their challenges and opportunities, and suggests how women peace activists in the MENA region can build on existing lessons learned in leveraging the Women Peace and Security (WPS) agenda for impact.

This toolkit provides key information and resources for civil society to leverage global commitments toward local change in their home countries through development of a WPS National Action Plan (NAP). It shows organisations how they can use the global Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda as a tool to promote greater gender justice, peace and freedom by offering information on how to advocate for the development of a National Action Plan (NAP) on Women, Peace and Security. This includes background information about UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and the Women, Peace and Security agenda; information on how to conduct advocacy campaigns; and talking points and tools for meeting with government representatives.

This is a USA-focused guide for mayors on how to promote gender equality in cities and local government. It features case studies – one of them on CEDAW implementation in San Francisco – recommendations, links to complementary studies, documentaries, resource groups and pages. The purpose of the guide is to provide mayors with a “toolkit” of readily accessible resources, tangible solutions and existing programs that accelerate the advancement of women and girls in local communities.

This guide explores the meanings of the “Transformative Leadership for Women’s Rights” approach by distinguishing transformative leadership from other forms of leadership. It outlines what Oxfam is aiming to achieve by investing in this approach and how it can be applied in other organisations. This approach challenges and transforms power relations and structures (in all their different manifestations) into an enabling environment for the leadership potential of individuals.

This Handbook seeks to help increase the number of women in decision-making positions by inspiring women to become politically engaged by empowering women to become democratic and participatory leaders. It is designed for use as a learning tool by those who are challenging themselves to play a more significant political role in their communities. It conveys information through dialogue and open-ended questions that allow readers and workshop participants to form their own conclusions. This tool aims to enable readers and workshop participants move beyond talking about political limitations by honing their skills to take action.

The guide aims to provide a feminist perspective on democratic constitution making in a systematic and accessible way. It answers the questions of how and why a constitution that is inclusive of women’s rights and gender equality is needed. What are the entry points? How to debate them? The handbook combines academic research and constitutional expertise with a feminist theoretic approach, substantiated by the experiences of the women’s rights activists in the Euromed region and examples from different constitutions and processes across the world.

This Handbook presents the results of a 2011 survey by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on how national Human rights institutions (NHRIs) in the OSCE region address women’s rights and gender equality. It also provides analysis and recommendations for action. The document is geared towards NHRIs that are seeking to strengthen their capacity to protect and promote women’s rights and gender equality. It can also be useful for governments and specialized institutions interacting with NHRIs and mandated to address discrimination and equality issues, as well as for human rights activists, gender advocates, NGOs and international actors working with NHRIs.

This toolkit gathers good practices of Demo Finland and highlights good methods used around the world to enhance gender equality in politics. It is aimed at facilitators but it has plenty of good reference material, tools and other information for anyone interested in strengthening women’s political participation. Its objectives are to support capacity building in: i) strengthening political parties in building their capacity on all aspects of gender equality and intra-party democracy; ii) developing an Action Plan with indicators to promote gender equality within parties; iii) supporting political parties’ women’s organisations in building alliances and adopting best practices for cross-party collaboration; and iv) supporting collaboration between political women’s organisations and civil society organisations in order to improve women’s position in society.

This manual is presented as a complete training package with guidelines for facilitators and suggested handouts and training materials. It is based on research to map young women’s political participation at the local, presidential and parliamentary levels in Sierra Leone, including in university student bodies. It also aims to track the political engagement and participation of young women and their strategies for engaging in local council and parliamentary elections using the example of the 2012 elections in Sierra Leone. In essence, the aim is to understand the factors that have enabled their participation thus far and the barriers that impede their full participation.