Abuja, Nigeria

The Women Empowerment and Reproductive Health Centre (WERHC) is offering its 2nd Gender Institute Course (WGI) which is designed to explore the link between gender equality and health, governance, education, the economy, and climate change, among other issues. According to WERHC, the course will bring together 30 participants of all sexes from all over Africa.

Based on WERHC’s Gender Training Manual, the course seeks to cover the following topics:

• gender-related concepts and theories;
• exploring international, regional, and national instruments for gender equality and human rights;
• advocacy for gender equality;
• power relations and decision-making;
• gender and masculinity;
• gender analytical frameworks;
• how to conduct gender analysis and gender mainstreaming in programmes, projects, policies, and organisations;
• gender budgeting;
• applying gender to key issues in governance, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS, violence, education, etc; and
• gender management systems.

Click here for more information about the course.

To receive a registration form, participants must send a request to werhcafrica@yahoo.com Tuition will be NGN 50,000 (US$ 450). This covers the cost of training, training materials, tea breaks, water, honoraria, and group lunch.


Deadline for application: July 30, 2009.