However, while both institutions and governments have attempted to instill gender-sensitivity and responsiveness into their staff, what has passed for “gender training” has, overall, not worked to the wider purpose of supporting, contributing to, initiating or effecting transformative change in gender relations, or to an increase in capacity to deliver development programming services for women equally with men. What has passed for “gender training” has covered such a wide variety of experiences, topics and audiences that there is no longer an agreed definition of what gender training is, how it should be done, and with whom.
UN-INSTRAW are now developing a Community of Practice (CoP) on Gender Training, which aims to bring together practitioners from all over the world. This CoP will promote dialogue and analysis of the state of the art in gender training, identification of the achievements and challenges and reflection on how gender training can be strengthened as a component of gender mainstreaming and sustainable development.
Activities planned for the first year of the CoP include virtual dialogues on gender training; giving feedback to specific capacity building experiences; setting up a virtual clearinghouse and support platform of information on gender training that builds on UN-INSTRAW’s Gender Training Wiki; establishing a compendium of good practices in gender training, among others. Please click here to visit UN-INSTRAW’S
CoP on Gender Training website.
This website is the home and workspace of the Gender Training CoP. It encourages dialogue and the exchange of experiences as well as facilitates access to information on gender training.
