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Gender
Training Community of Practice (GT CoP)
Gender training as a concrete mechanism for
building capacity for gender mainstreaming, and a way to make development
cooperation more inclusive and responsive, has been implemented - from
differing perspectives, with differing methodologies, and with varying levels
of commitment - since the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995. It has been
presented as crucial to organizational development and capacity-building, as
well as key to changing attitudes and behaviours and building capacity at the
operational level.
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. Overall, the results of gender training, whether part of larger
gender mainstreaming processes or not, have been mixed. 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.
Though evaluations of individual gender training
sessions may be positive, evaluations of gender training overall have not
indicated significant organizationallevel change in programme and practice.
Individual, one-off, or ad-hoc training delivered on short-term contracts gives
the people responsible for gender training – at the programmatic and oversight
levels - no opportunity to compare experiences, forge relationships with other
practitioners for mutual support, feedback and possible co-facilitators, or
identify what works in gender training and how to capitalize on it.
Taking into account your professional expertise and knowledge in this field, as well as your commitment to gender training and the achievement of gender equality, UN-INSTRAW is pleased to invite you to be part of this Community of Practice (CoP) on Gender Training.
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