Web-based

This e-learning course, offered by the Global Human Rights Leadership Training Institute (GHRLTI) of the Human Rights and Justice Group International, is designed to explore common behaviours and attitudes towards gender differences while presenting facts and figures about the situation of women and men in society today. It seeks to empower participants with tools and sector-specific guidelines for gender mainstreaming in their various institutions and development planning. The aim is to further improve the abilities of participants to reduce gender inequalities in their own organisations and communities.

The course will include references from key documents that highlight policies formulated to address gender concerns. It will feature a number of exercises and reflective activities designed to explore basic gender concepts and enhance gender analysis skills, which can be applied in the formulation of policies, the design of programmes, and conducting evaluations.  

This course focuses on:

• increasing the awareness of participants on the importance of gender issues in achieving national development objectives and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs);
• providing an opportunity for developing a common language and understanding for defining and fostering gender-focused development approaches;
• strengthening the gender analysis and gender-responsive planning skills of participants, so that they can monitor the integration of a gender perspective into policies and programmes in their country;
• promoting gender considerations in the achievement of the MDGs, and
•  demonstrate how gender-responsive strategies in development planning can be adopted to enhance the achievement of national development policies; and
• facilitating access to relevant research and data and dissemination of best practices.

  Course outline

  Module 1: Introduction

  1.      Introduction

  2.      Exploring Attitudes towards Gender

  3.      Basic Gender Concepts and Terminology

   

   

  Module 2: Gender Development and Analysis

  4.      Identifying Gender Issues

  5.      Gender Facts, Figures and Opinions

  6.      Gender, culture and religion

  7.      Gender Mainstreaming (in Agriculture, Health, Education etc.)

  8.      The Policy Environment

  9.      The Concept of Gender Analysis and Project Management

   

  Module 3: Gender Framework

  10.  Gender Issues in Management

  11.  Gender Responsive Policy Making

  12.  Gender Responsive Planning

   

  Module 4: Conclusion and Plan of Action

  13.  Monitoring and Evaluation

  14.  Final Examination

   

  Target Audience

  The course is designed for women, gender officers, programmes and project managers, research officers, policy makers, women leaders and members of coalitions and networks, students, staff of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and community-based organisations (CBOs), donor agency field workers, volunteers, development actors, trainers, students, government officials etc. Candidates should have a good written command of English language and high competence and comfort with computer and internet use.

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The deadline for application is February 14 2008.

Full tuition payment is due on February 15 2008. However, applications will be accepted on a first-come-first-serve basis.

The course tuition fee is US$200.

There is a limited amount of partial scholarships available for this course for applicants from developing countries, based on financial need.

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