Today's leadership thinkers are emphasizing gender equity and equality (Peters Tom, in Re-imagine 2009). Wilson (2007) states that;' "Closing leadership gap, add women and change everything". African Countries are implementing a women decade (2010– 2020) and yet many officers and employees in many organizations are not aware. This programme aims to train women and men to the critical gender issues and concerns that continue to constrain gender equity and equality in Africa, and continue to hamper planned development efforts.
HOW PARTICIPANTS WILL BENEFIT
A the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Implement the African decade on 'women empowerment and gender equality';
- Identify critical gender issues and their significance to national development for
- Identify gender based barriers and how they impacted negatively on the
performance of sub-Saharan Africa countries in achieving MDGs, SDGs
- Analyze organizational policies and practices so as to promote gender-
- Strategize on how to prepare an engendered equal opportunity employer
policy as well as an engendered organizational budget.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Senior Government officials and Programme/project managers involved in planning and implementing national or regional development programmes and projects. This course is relevant to men and women public servants or as well as those from development oriented NGOs.
- Gender sensitization
- Why engender development;
- Gender analysis and gender planning tools;
- The impact of gender inequality on economic growth and sustainable
- Review objectives and strategies for the African Women Decade;
2010 - 2020;
- Discuss and strategize how to empower women to overcome the subordination syndrome;
- Strategize how to conscientize men to promote gender equity.
- Leveraging gender diversity in national development programmes and align to the 2030 global agenda; sustainable development goal (SDGs);
- Gender responsive policy - making and budgeting.