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Consultancy

Gender Equality Training Package

1. General Guiding Principles for Gender Mainstreaming.

  • Strong Rationales for Gender Mainstreaming
  • Gender Mainstreaming Implementation through Multiple Strategies – No ‘one-size fits all’ gender mainstreaming strategies: the rationale for multiple-track gender mainstreaming strategies
  • Strengthening complementarity between multiple gender mainstreaming tracks: a programme approach

2. Implementing Gender Mainstreaming at Country Level Throughout the Development Programming Process.

  • Applying Gender Analysis to Programme Planning  
  • Formulating Results for Gender Equality within Programme Results-based Frameworks 
  • Gender-Responsive Budgeting 
  • Monitoring and Evaluation of Gender Mainstreaming 
  • Selecting Programme Implementing Partners 
  • Gender Mainstreaming within the Sectoral Approach

3. Gender Mainstreaming Within Institutional Processes

  • Drivers of Change for Gender Equality within Organizations: Essential Organizational Ingredients 
  • Organizational culture  
  • Human resources for gender equality expertise 
  • Staff accountability and incentives for gender mainstreaming
  • Financial resources for gender mainstreaming
  •  Procedures and standards for organizational accountability in the United Nations system and beyond 
  • Engendering National Statistical Systems for Evidence-Based Gender Mainstreaming  
  • Seizing Entry Points for Policy Dialogue and Advocacy for Gender Mainstreaming
Diversity and Inclusion Training Package

1. Understanding Social Inclusion

  • Social exclusion
  • Social inclusion
  • Participation and inclusion. Is there a link?
  • Intersectionality and inclusion

2. Who is Excluded?

  • Individuals, groups or communities? 
  • SOGIE and exclusion
  • PLWD and exclusion
  • Factors contributing to exclusion
  • Structural causes of exclusion of different groups.

3. Operationalizing Gender and Social Inclusion

  • Gender and social inclusion
  • Literature review on gender and social inclusion
  • Situation analysis for gender & social inclusion 
  • Internally (within organizations) 
  • Externally (in communities)
  • An intersectional analysis of gender and social inclusion
  • Understanding root causes of exclusion and exploring opportunities for inclusion

4. Embedding Gender and Social Inclusion

  • Key areas of commitment
  • GSI assessment tool

Sexual harassment training package: a guide to creating safer organizations and spaces SAFE Festivals and Events training package: a guide for hotels, restaurants, bars etc on creating safer spaces for women

Services
  • Gender audit: the institutionalization of gender equality into organizations
  • Policy Development – Sexual Harassment Policy; Diversity and Inclusion Policy (service, not training)
  • Identifying the issue to be addressed by the proposed policy
  • Placement on the organization agenda (mission and vision)
  • Formulation of the policy (who is a part of this process, sourcing relevant information and data to inform your policy)
  • Policy validation (by the board of directors or other internal and external stakeholders)
  • Implementation of the policy
  • Evaluation of the policy.Â