Level one Training
Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
Major topics to be covered include:
- Why does gender equality matters?
- Why should we empower women?
- Key issues in measuring gender equality (participation of women in decision making, control over resources, budgeting, health, education)
- Gender-based violence against girls and women
- Combating violence against women
- Gender stereotypes and discriminatory attitudes
- Strategies for engaging and empowering women
- Measuring gender in/equality and women’s empowerment (political representation,)
By the end of this session participants will be able to:
- Understand approaches and develop indicators of success on gender equality
- Employ a rights-based approach that recognizes women’s human rights to social, economic and political equality
- Take the necessary precaution not exacerbate existing inequalities or create negative effects, for example by increasing gender-based violence
- improve their knowledge, skills and attitudes towards individuals whom they are working with
- plan and design interventions that consider the needs of both women and men and a roadmap for implementation