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As a leading United Nations Institute devoted to research, training
and knowledge management to achieve gender equality and women’s
empowerment, UN-INSTRAW works in partnership with governments, the
United Nations System, civil society and academia to strengthen
stakeholder capacity to address and effectively integrate gender issues
in all policies, programmes and projects.
For UN-INSTRAW, as well as for other UN agencies,
Capacity-building involves an integral process of creating and building
on existing capacities so that individuals, organizations and societies
can put those capacities into subsequent action to achieve their
development objectives.
UN-INSTRAW and Capacity-Building
I. CoP and Wiki development
UN-INSTRAW has created the first-ever wiki devoted specifically to
gender training and capacity-building. This resource serves as a clearinghouse for gender training courses, centres and events.
The Gender Training Wiki is part of the Gender Training Community of Practice (CoP), which brings together practitioners from all over the world with a diversity of knowledge and experiences, in order to take stock of where we are in gender training: what have been the real successes and failures and how do we strengthen gender training as a component of gender mainstreaming and sustainable development?
II. Development of capacity-building tools and processes to encourage policy change and
gender mainstreaming
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Gender Training for UN Personal
On the 15th October 2009, UN
INSTRAW developed an “Introduction Training in the Development,
Processing and Evaluation of Projects with a Gender Perspective” for
technical Personal of different Agencies and Organizations of the UN
Country Team in the Dominican Republic.
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Gender Training for Young Facilitators
“Festival de Cine con Perspectiva de Género”
The UNCT (in cooperation with DEPRIDAM and SEM) held the “Festival de Cine con Perspectiva de Género” as part of the activities for November 25th. For this event, the movie “North Country” was shown and a debate was facilitated by young community leaders afterwards. This activity took place in 3 neighborhoods of Santo Domingo and the debate facilitators were trained by UN INSTRAW. |
Using
the results of its research in three strategic areas: i) Gender,
migration and development; ii) Governance and women’s
political participation at the local level; and iii) Gender, peace and
security, UN-INSTRAW develops participatory and responsive training and
capacity-building programmes that aim to spur change in policy and
programming from a gender perspective.
Next to the development of trainings UN-INSTRAW is also providing gender trainings.
III. Strengthen the capacity of women’s organizations and the political leadership of women in public functions
UN-INSTRAW aims to strengthen the capacity of women municipal leaders in order to facilitate their election (and re-election) to decision-making positions, as well as their ability to effectively place gender issues on the political agenda in local-level politics.
IV. Develop (e-)learning programmes in collaboration with other UN agencies
This line of action includes collaboration with other UN agencies in order to develop online and distance learning programmes, as well as revising
existing capacity-building materials and resources.
UNFPA Distance Learning Course Gender Mainstreaming: Taking Action, Getting Results
UN-INSTRAW is currently collaborating with UNFPA for the revision and updating of Distance Learning Course Gender Mainstreaming: Taking Action, Getting Results. This courseaims to build understanding of gender equality, and empowerment of women within a Human Rights framework, to provide the resources and tools to enable participants to mainstream gender issues into their work; and to advocate for women and young girl´s reproductive rights to be incorporated in policies and funding frameworks, humanitarian and transition programmes related to Beijing, CEDAW and CRS and thus contributing to the output.
Expert Meeting for Validation of UNFPA Distance Learning Course on Gender Mainstreaming.
UN INSTRAW HQ, Santo Domingo, DR.
March 30-31, 2009.
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