Here is what the CoP responded to Nasiima's question... PDF Print E-mail
 
Nasiima Jassy from Uganda asked:
What exactly does Gender Training do?
March 5, 2009.
 
 

What did the GT CoP  respond?

During the first Virtual Dialogue, Current Situation on Gender Training, the CoP said Gender Training was:
 
A process of awareness raising. It can also include capacity building in gender analytical tools and gender planning. Gender training was also seen as an advocacy and knowledge sharing mechanism. Regardless of the emphasis being placed on capacity building or advocacy, both approaches require that the training should be conducted over a prolonged period of time. One training session or even a brief training period was not seen as enough.
 
Source: Final Summary. First Virtual Dialogue Current Situation on Gender Training. UN-INSTRAW Gender Training Community of Practice (GTCoP)
 
Here is what other experts say...
 
According to Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay and Marguerite Appel (1998), “The generic aim of gender training, therefore, is to consciously introduce gender as a category of analysis (as opposed to description), to point to the differing needs and interests of women and men and their unequal representation, and to increase awareness and reduce the gender-bias which informs the actions of individuals and institutions.”
 
Source: Mukhopadhyay, M. & Appel, M. “Introduction Gender Training and Social Transformation: an Agenda for Change”. In: Gender Training: the Source Book. Royal Tropical Institute & Oxfam GB, Amsterdam, 1998.

 
 
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