GTCoP - Community of Practice Training for Gender Equality

This document analyses contemporary training manuals for gender and diversity trainings within the EU and the UN to show that ‘intersectionality’ is a concept which is rarely explicitly used in the training field. First, it critically discusses different approaches towards intersectionality and their conceptualisations of intersectional inequalities. Second, it presents the analysis of training manuals by specifically focusing on the lack of intersectional perspectives. Finally, it discusses how the theoretical, legal and political conceptualisations of intersectionality can be transferred into trainings by discussing which minimum effects the concept should have on methods/material, training conditions and trainer’s profiles.

This Training Manual is a practical tool to increase the capacity of policy and decision makers to develop gender-responsive climate change policies and strategies. It provides all actors with the essential knowledge and concrete guidance on how their actions on climate change can better answer the needs of women and men in developing countries. It contains 7 modules on: gender mainstreaming; international law instruments as a framework for mainstreaming gender in climate change; gender issues and climate change; gender mainstreaming in adaptation efforts; gender-sensitive mitigation strategies; gender-sensitive strategies on technology development; and gender mainstreaming in climate change financing mechanisms.

This training manual provides condensed policy information on indigenous issues, through “key messages” from policy and guidance documents from the UNDG on Indigenous Issues and from the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. It also outlines practical exercises that will serve as examples to UN staff for mainstreaming indigenous issues into their strategy, programmes and projects. These exercises are part of the workshop materials and can be used by individual staff members by way of reflection on the issues, or in discussion groups which would have the added advantage of getting to know various perspectives and ideas on potential strategies.

This training manual is designed for trainers of women candidates running for office at the local and national levels of government in Uganda. It provides background information and guidelines for conducting training sessions on issues such as securing party support, electoral codes of conduct, campaign plan development, message development, and constituency outreach.

This resource guide identifies the linkages between gender and energy in the context of sustainable development. It provides suggestions and materials on how to address energy poverty by integrating gender and energy sensitivity into development programmes, projects and policies. The toolkit and resource guide were jointly produced by the Sustainable Energy Programme of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and ENERGIA, the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy. It is designed to help planners and practitioners integrate gender and energy considerations into development programmes, including those focusing on energy improvements as well as other types of development programmes.

This manual is designed to help trainers enhance their understanding of the gender dimensions of HIV/AIDS so that they can then effectively influence policy makers to undertake appropriate responses to the challenges posed by the epidemic. It provides comprehensive background information on the HIV/AIDS epidemic, step-by-step training guidelines for community members, questionnaires dealing with common misconceptions about the illness, and statistics relevant to the topic.

This manual provides material on gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) initiatives for trainers and workshop facilitators, in order to aid them in the designing and planning of training programmes and workshops on GRB. Originally designed for the Asia/Pacific Regional Training of Trainers Workshop on Gender Sensitive Budgeting, the manual includes short presentations, handout materials and backup information for use during workshops.

This manual builds an understanding of gender responsive budgeting as a tool for promoting gender equity, accountability to women’s rights as well as efficiency and transparency in budget policies and processes. It focuses on the applicability of gender responsive budgeting to reproductive health and secondly through a presentation of sector-specific examples and case studies dealing with maternal health, gender and HIV/AIDS, and violence against women.

This toolkit presents a comprehensive understanding of gender mainstreaming and how it can be put into practice. It is primarily designed for public policy and development practitioners who are not experts in gender issues, but who nonetheless are charged with the day-to-day responsibility of gender mainstreaming.

This toolkit aims to integratr a gender perspective into the work of security sector actors and institutions. It provides policy-makers and practitioners with a practical introduction to why gender issues are important in security sector reform and what can be done to integrate these in the sector. It includes the following twelve chapters/tools: 

1. Security Sector Reform and Gender; 
2. Police Reform and Gender; 
3. Defence Reform and Gender; 
4. Justice Reform and Gender; 
5. Penal Reform and Gender; 
6. Border Management and Gender; 
7. Parliamentary Oversight of the Security Sector and Gender; 
8. National Security Policy-Making and Gender; 
9. Civil Society Oversight of the Security Sector and Gender; 
10. Private Military and Security Companies and Gender; 
11. SSR Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation and Gender; and
12. Gender Training for Security Sector Personnel.