eu initiatives on gender equality in development issue on the occasion of 8 th march 2012...
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EU Initiatives on Gender Equality in Development
Issue on the occasion of 8th March 2012International Women’s Day
March 2012
IN FOCUSIn this issue:
• 8 of March 2012 in EC Headquarters and Delegations
• Good practices from Lebanon about combating VAW
• Highlights from the analysis of the 2011 GAPs
• Updating on the Gender Call for Proposals
• Highlights from the meeting of Member States gender experts
• 56th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
• New UN Women-ITC-ILO programme «Increasing Accountability in Financing for Gender Equality»
• EU – UN WOMEN – UNDP initiative on Women, Security and Peace
• Online training courses on gender in 2012
• Gender Equality and Non-Discrimination team at DEVCO
• New GAS Team for 2012
• Capacity 4 Dev
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Editorial Committee:European Union, DEVCO: Marina Marchetti, Camilla Landini, Turid-Johanna KongsvikEU Gender Advisory Service: Thera van Osch, Claire Leloup, Chiara Guidetti
Collaborating on this issue: Blerina Vila (ITCILO), Roula Abbas (EEAS-Beirut), Marina Juan Oliva (EEAS-EAST JERUSALEM), Melba Hernandez (EEAS-TEGUCIGALPA), Marie-Noelle Grell (EEAS-OUAGADOUGOU), Sabina Petrecchia (EEAS-HANOI)
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, this Newsletter presents some of the activities that will be carried out at EU Headquarters and Delegations.
The European Commission's Equal Opportunities Strategy 2010 - 2014: Making it happen is the subject of a conference organised by the European Commission to celebrate International Women’s Day. External speakers include Ms Mieke Van Oostende (Partner, McKinsey & Company) presenting the main results of McKinsey's research on gender equality in the workplace ('Women Matter’), Ms Niki Ross-Ruggeri (Diversity and HR initiatives Advisor, OECD) and Antoaneta Boeva (Gender Balance and Diversity Officer, NATO).The conference, open to all EU staff and institutions, will take place on Thursday 8th March 2012, from 12.30 to 14.30 in room Alcide de Gasperi in the Charlemagne building. It will also be transmitted by videoconference to the Luxembourg, Grange and JRC sites.
Please register via SYSLOG Web Formation using the following link:http://www.cc.cec/di/syslog_formation/application/newapplication.cfm?cor_id=386372
Joint EU/UNICEF project on Female Genital Mutilation and child marriage : On Capacity4Dev, we already highlighted the issue of FGM on 9th February, the International Day against FGM, and this year this will be the theme highlighted by DEVCO on International Women's Day as well; indeed, the report of the Joint EU/UNICEF project on female genital mutilation and child marriage will be issued; the project is under implementation across 5 African countries, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Senegal and Sudan, and its new report shows the results of its activities.A complete factsheet, project presentation and a press release will be issued on this occasion, including a short note from Commissioner Piebalgs on this issue: "I find it totally unacceptable that in the 21st century, this practice, which is a clear violation of human rights, is still taking place. That is why I am so pleased to see that EU aid can make a real difference. By raising awareness on the dangers of female genital mutilation/cutting at grassroots level, we have helped to provide young women across Africa with an alternative, as well as giving them the chance to become an active part of their own communities in the future.”
For more information, please contact: Catherine Ray [email protected] Wojtek Talko [email protected]
8th March 2012 Activities at EC Headquarters and Delegations
Invitation to the event in Nablus
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8th March in EU Delegations8th March in EU Delegations
Honduras: Responding to an invitation from the UN Women Local Office, the EUD in Tegucigalpa will publish an article related to the EU's Strategy on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Development Cooperation in a national newspaper.Moreover, under the Support to Food Security in Honduras Program (PASAH), the Technical Unit for Food Security (UTSAN) in collaboration with a private enterprise, will showcase the American film "The Help", which illustrates the discrimination of women at work.
For more information: HERNANDEZ Melba (EEAS-TEGUCIGALPA) [email protected]
Burkina Faso: 8th March in BF is a day off and, as is customary every year, all towns – villages even – try to organise something special; typically, most of the women dress up in "pagne" (tissue) displaying its special logo. Next Monday sees colleagues from the Delegation also trying to dress in the official "pagne” (see the picture below). A town is also officially chosen by the government for a big ceremony; this year, the town selected is Dédougou and the debate theme is "Social mobilisation for the reduction of women’s mortality : what is the role of men" ?
For more information: GRELL Marie-Noelle (EEAS-OUAGADOUGOU) [email protected]
OPT: Events scheduled in the OPT started in March and include activities in different parts of the territory. On 1st March, the Office of the EU Representative in Jerusalem (EUREP) will launch an exhibition in Nablus with the best 65 drawings from the Palestinian children who took part in the 2011 Drawing Competition on Gender Equality. The children whose drawings have been exhibited will receive a small prize and the finalists whose drawings were sent to Brussels will receive a photo camera. This exhibition has already been presented in Gaza with great success among the participating children and has received impressive media coverage (see also the picture on page 5).On 7th March, the Palestinian NGO, Shashat Women's Cinema, which is receiving EU funding for a yearly festival of women's short films "I am a woman from Palestine", will launch the first of a weekly 6-episode TV broadcast on the Palestine national television channel. The broadcasts will include discussions on the short films and related women's issues, and the first broadcast of 07/03 will include an interview of the GFP.On 8th March, at the request of EUREP, the radio station “Nisaa FM” will broadcast a special live discussion with EU-funded women's organisations about their work. Projects to be discussed include support to victims of violence, advocacy on inheritance and property rights and support to cultural productions. Nisaa FM, based in Ramallah, is the only professional female-led radio station in the region, whose objective is to promote the contribution of Palestinian women to all sectors of society.
For more information: JUAN OLIVA Marina (EEAS-EAST JERUSALEM) [email protected]
Vietnam: The GFP in Hanoi organised a couple of training events on gender. A two-day training session for colleagues from the operations section was organised to build the internal capacity of EUD operational staff in order to mainstream gender in the cooperation portfolio, as required by the EU-GAP. The training session is also registered in Syslog.A one-day workshop with EU bilateral partners in Vietnam is also scheduled to exchange knowledge and experiences on gender issues in order to enhance the mutual understanding on how to promote gender mainstreaming within the cooperation portfolio of the EU in the country.
For more information:PETRECCHIA Sabina (EEAS-HANOI) [email protected]
Lebanon: The EUD in Beirut has decided to celebrate Women's Day during March, but not specifically on 8th
March, in order “to have a clear message to address and be visible as much as possible”; an event will be organised on 19th March, for which the agenda is still under preparation; a tentative schedule should include a documentary on a Nationality campaign (show cases), a KAFA documentary on GBV in Lebanon (testimony) and a debate involving deputies, ministers and NGOs .
For more information: ABBAS Roula (EEAS-BEIRUT) [email protected]
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LEBANON: CEDAW from Theory to Practice
Last year, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, KAFA (enough) Violence & Exploitation launched a Regional Lobbying and Media Campaign on Lifting the Reservations on Article 16 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), addressing equality between men and women in marriage and family life. This was a part of a project entitled "CEDAW from Theory to Practice" funded by the European Union and implemented by KAFA in cooperation with the Arab Women Organisation in Jordan and the Syrian Women's League.The project primarily aims at promoting the full implementation and use of CEDAW, especially among judges, lawyers and civil society organisations. The project is also designed to raise awareness towards the importance of using CEDAW as a tool to improve respect for women's rights, as well as to push governments to lift their reservations on the Convention. In addition, KAFA and its partners have conducted and published studies, tracking to what extent CEDAW is being used in Lebanese, Jordanian and Syrian courts, highlighting best practices as well as the violations of the Convention by these courts. The unipoles and posters were designed to raise awareness on the importance of pushing governments to lift their reservations on the Convention.Hereunder are some elements of the Campaign, in Arabic, that can also be accessed by clicking on: http://www.kafa.org.lb/Photos.aspx?code=34&Category=2.
The blue picture, in Arabic, shows that the weather temperature in Beirut, Damascus and Jordan is -16 degree Celsius referring to article 16 of CEDAW about marriage; still a long way to go for Lebanon!
Best Practice: Raising awareness on VAW
The picture below represents the civil code status which is 16 underground (zefet in arabic means Asphalt) this is an insinuation on how bad is the civil code in Lebanon towards women.
For more information, please contact: ABBAS Roula (EEAS-BEIRUT) [email protected]
The call "Investing in People - Strengthening protection and promotion of women's rights and women's social and economic empowerment" -EuropeAid/131087/C/ACT/Multi - closed on 30/01/2012.On the basis of past experience, about 500 concept notes were expected, but about 2000 emails were finally received. The Legal and Financial unit - D6 - is now checking the received emails, to identify double submissions and incomplete documents etc. The process is still ongoing and this means the final number of received proposals is not yet clear.Unit D6 is also in charge of informing Delegations about the concept notes they are supposed to evaluate. The contact person is Stelvio Arduino ([email protected] ).For the assessment in Brussels, five experts were originally hired. Their number is being increased to 8, as well as the number of working days per assessor.Planned timing of the assessment procedure:• Mid February to end of April: Concept Notes assessment • By mid May: Evaluation Committee to define ranked list and invitation to submit Full Proposals• By end June/beginning of July: deadline to submit Full proposals• By end July: assessment of FP• August - September: internal procedure for the funding decision• From September to December: Delegations will have the responsibility to complete the contracting procedure.
For more information, please contact: Marina [email protected]
Call for Proposals on GenderCall for Proposals on Gender
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Big step forward in EU Accountability on Gender: Report on the implementation of the ‘EU Plan of
Action on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Development (2011-2015)’.
The first joint reporting of EU Member States and EU Delegations on the implementation of the Gender Action Plan was presented to the European Council in December 2011. “The fact that this report is mandatory means that all of us need to be accountable on what we do in gender; we have indicators, we have deadlines, we have to achieve the objectives [of the Gender Action Plan]”, says Elena Volpi in an interview with the editorial team of Capacity4dev .The report shows a wide range of approaches on how EU Policies on promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment are put in practice. A series of inspiring good practices are included in the report. Interesting achievements are those of EU Member States which have introduced mechanisms and procedures to ensure a gender equality perspective in policy and implementation instruments, including budget support programmes and macroeconomic dialogue and policies. Support to non-state actors generally seems to integrate requirements regarding gender. The reports of EU Delegations and EU Member States also cited numerous examples on the implementation of the UN Security Council Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security (UNSCR 1325, 1820, 1888 and 1889).This first GAP reporting exercise provided an opportunity to test the indicators and to identify those that need to be clarified. Follow-up on this issue was undertaken during the meeting of gender experts of EU Member States in Brussels on 5th and 6th March 2012, and a guidance note will be prepared for the next reporting period. The reports from Member States, Delegations and the Commission revealed a series of lessons learned, including the need to build the capacity of EU Delegation staff (not only GFPs) to integrate a gender equality perspective in all sectors of EU bilateral cooperation (including budget support); greater fine tuning at Delegation level between political and human rights dialogue and development cooperation; and more gender equality perspectives in local calls for proposals.Several recommendations of the report are focused on improving the process of GAP reporting, including the establishment of a baseline. A general conclusion of the report is that much more could be achieved by EU Delegations, the Commission and Member States by sharing and learning from each others' best practices in GAP implementation.
Ahmad Nubani, from Nablus, one of the 10 Palestinian finalists in last year's competition, who received a prize on 1st March 2012.
Gender Action Plans: some highlights from 2011 reportsGender Action Plans: some highlights from 2011 reports
Strategic objectives of the EU Gender Action Plan (2010-2015)
Strengthen the lead role of the EU in promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in development (GEWE)
Place gender equality issues systematically on the agenda of dialogues with partner countries
Ensure adequate human and financial resources for GEWE
Ensure that gender equality is mainstreamed in EU funded projects and that budget support programmes and SWAPS (sector-wide approaches) use sex-disaggregated indicators and include gender equality performance indicators
Prioritise in-country Non State Actors (NSAs) participation and capacity building and advocacy on GEWE
Support to partner countries in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in particular MDG3 and MDG5 on gender equality and maternal health.
Strengthen EU support to partner countries in combating gender-based violence and all forms of discrimination against women and girls
Support partner countries in fully implementing United National Security Council Resolutions (UNSCR) 1325, 1820, 1888 and 1889.
Link to the 2011-GAP-report http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en/11/st17/st17880.en11.pdfOn Capacity4Dev website:http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu/public-gender/document/2011-report-implementation-gender-action-plan-0
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On 5th and 6th March 2012, the DEVCO-building in Rue Joseph II 54, hosted the MS Gender Experts Meeting, which had a special focus on the implementation of EU GAP reporting exercises.The first day was directed specifically towards Member States, with ad hoc sessions aiming to discuss the EU Gender Action Plan 2010-2015 (1st Session), revising relevant and critical issues related to reporting, such as indicators and baselines, coordination mechanisms (3rd Session), sharing experiences and learning from each others best practices (2nd session),The second day was dedicated to other “external” issues, such as common guidance notes to heads of missions, with a particular focus on sustainable development (4th Session); the implementation of training-related objectives and actions in the GAP (5th Session).Finally, a meeting with civil society organisations and international partners was held in order to discuss, inter alia, progress and challenges in implementing the GAP, the Agenda for Change from a gender perspective,the Busan commitments on gender, and women in fragile states.The outcome of the MS meeting will be published on capacity4dev.eu
For more information, please contact: Marina Marchetti [email protected]
Mamber States Gender experts meeting - Brussels, 5-6 March 2012Mamber States Gender experts meeting - Brussels, 5-6 March 2012
56 CSW – New York, 27 February – 9 March 201256 CSW – New York, 27 February – 9 March 2012
Tomorrow (9th March 2012), the 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women will end with the issue the “agreed conclusions”; this year, the priority topic has been the empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges.The CSW is a functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC); it was established by ECOSOC resolution 11(II) of 21st June 1946 with the aim to prepare recommendations and reports to the Council on promoting women's rights in political, economic, civil, social and educational fields.In this regard, it represents a principal global policy-making body dedicated exclusively to gender equality and the advancement of women. Every year, the CSW session is held at United Nations Headquarters in New York to evaluate progress on gender equality, identify challenges, set global standards and formulate concrete policies to promote gender equality and women's empowerment worldwide.The webpage of the CSW Session http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/56sess.htm includes details on the meeting agenda, as well as official discussion papers for each panel. By 9th March, agreed conclusions of the session will be also available.
Here is a summary of the main topics of this year’s agenda. Priority theme: The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges1. Panel: Economic empowerment of rural women2. Panel: The role of gender-responsive governance
and institutions for the empowerment of rural women
Review theme: Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women (discussions and review of the priority theme of the previous 2011 session - agreed conclusions - from the fifty-second session)3. Panel: National experiences in implementing the
agreed conclusions on financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women
4. Panel: Progress in financing for gender equality from the perspective of international organisations and multilateral development partners
Emerging issue: Engaging young women and men, girls and boys, to advance gender equality (preliminary discussion on the priority theme of the subsequent 2013 session)5. Panel: Engaging young women and men, girls and
boys, to advance gender equality.Exhibition in Gaza for the Drawing Competition on Gender Equality”
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The European Commission (EC), the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and the International Training Center of the International Labour Organisation (ITC/ILO) have launched a new programme entitled “Increasing Accountability in Financing for Gender Equality (FfGE)”. For the next 3 years, this programme, managed by UN Women and supported by the EC and Spain, will work with governments, civil society and bilateral and multilateral donors to strengthen capacities and accountability systems for financing and implementing gender equality priorities in Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Nicaragua, Occupied Palestinian Territory (Opt), Senegal, Ukraine, Cameroon, Tanzania, Nepal, Peru, Bolivia and Rwanda as well as in Zambia. The overall aim of the programme is to increase the volume and effective use of aid and domestic resources to implement national commitments to gender equality and women’s empowerment. UN Women will take the lead in supporting national partners in mainstreaming gender in national and joint coordination processes. EU Delegations will also strengthen efforts to mainstream gender equality in the programming cycle, including through technical capacity building provided by ITC/ILO.The programme outcomes are: National action plans for gender equality have defined targets, financing and implementation arrangements are aligned with national planning and budgeting processes. Strengthened capacity and accountability of national governments to implement gender equality commitments and address women’s priorities in national planning, budgeting systems and programming.
EU – ITC ILO – UN WOMEN - Increase Accountability in Financing for Gender EqualityEU – ITC ILO – UN WOMEN - Increase Accountability in Financing for Gender Equality
Strengthened capacity and accountability of donors and stakeholders in aid coordination mechanisms to achieve commitments towards gender equality in stable and fragile countries. Feminist economists and gender equality advocates engaged effectively in contributing to stronger policy coherence on gender equality in economic and development effectiveness policy fora.The programme builds on past experience, lessons learned and knowledge in the areas of Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB), Gender and Aid Effectiveness (AE) and costing of gender equality priorities. It also builds on the processes related to the aid effectiveness agenda as outlined in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005) and the Accra Agenda for Action (2008) as well as the agreed conclusions adopted by the 52nd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 2008 (on adequate financing for gender equality) whose progress has been reviewed at the 2012 CSW.The programme has finalised its inception phase, during which, each of the countries, in line with national priorities, has already identified sectoral focus that includes: Agriculture and food security, Social Protection and Employment, Education, Access to Justice and Violence against Women. Results and strategies will be discussed with global and national partners at a global workshop in May 2012.
For more information, please contact: EC - Camilla Landini [email protected] UN Women - Nisreen Alami: [email protected] ITC/ILO - Benedetta Magri-Short: [email protected]
Inception phase of the Programme “Increasing Accountability in Financing for Gender Equality (FfGE)”
Another joint initiative : EU – UN WOMEN - UNDP initiative on Women, Peace and SecurityA new multi-country initiative, following the EU Policy on Women, Peace and Security, to enhance women’s participation in peace-building and post-conflict planning and economic recovery was launched last month jointly by the European Commission, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). It is a 2 year programme piloting a model for EU/UN collaboration on Women, Peace and Security, thus aiming at strengthening the capacity and coordination of women’s civil society organizations and relevant EU and UN actors and supporting women’s participation in peace-building. Kosovo (UNSCR 1244), Timor-Leste and Liberia are the three strategic locations selected for this pilot programme, which will have a special focus on post-conflict planning and financing, the rule of law and post-conflict economic recovery.
External IfS website: http://eeas.europa.eu/ifs/index_en.htm Peace-building Partnership Portal: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/tariqa/PeaceBuilding/index.php
For more information, please contact: Gladys Evangelista [email protected]
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The "gender equality and non discrimination" sector is part of the D1 Unit - "Governance, Democracy, Human Rights and Gender".The sector deals with 4 different topics: gender equality and women empowerment (GEWE); child rights' (CR) promotion and protection as well as rights of indigenous peoples and of persons belonging to (sexual, religious, ethnic, etc) minorities. Varied tasks were inherited from 3 different DGs of the former DEV and AIDCO structure: policy follow-up, programme and project management and quality support. The sector supports policy implementation in the 4 aforementioned topics. For GEWE, the Gender Action Plan implementation and reporting is the main issue.
NEW DEVCO Structure @ Gender Equality and Non Discrimination SectorNEW DEVCO Structure @ Gender Equality and Non Discrimination Sector
Thanks to… two valuable colleagues who played a crucial role at HQ in the formulation and implementation of the EU Gender Action Plan (GAP) who have recently left DEVCO.
In an inspiring way, she created broad support for this plan among all parties, including colleagues from HQ and Delegations, Member States, and Civil Society.
the reporting process on the implementation of the GAP and the promotion of gender mainstreaming in core training. Thanks to Elena’s strong analytical skills, the first annual implementation report on the GAP was presented to the European Council in December 2011. Both Elena and Victoria were a driving force of the gender machinery at DEVCO. We will miss their presence at HQ and wish them both success in their further professional career. Thanks Elena and Victoria; you both pushed policies and strategies which make a difference to the lives of thousands of women and girls who equally benefit from EU development cooperation!
Elena Volpi, programme quality manager for gender, was strong in developing strategies to increase accountability on EU gender equality commitments, including in-house capacity building, coordination of
Victoria Correa, a policy advisor on gender, coordinated the process that led to adoption of the GAP by the EU Council, chaired by Spain in 2010.
Briefings for the Commissioner and replies to European Parliament questions are provided almost daily; follow-up of EU Council and European Parliament committees, as well as the mainstreaming of all the targeted groups' rights in Commission development policy documents and guidelines (MFF; communications; inter service consultations, etc…) are also part of its responsibilities.The sector manages part of two different programmes: the Investing in People programme for the gender and child rights topics; and the EIDHR for the protection of all the mentioned groups' rights. A call for proposals on gender equality was launched in the Investing in People programme last year, with a deadline on 30th January 2012 (see more info in article on page 4): the submitted concept notes are being evaluated. A new Investing in People - call for proposals will be launched in 2012 on child rights and finally, an EIDHR call for proposals will be launched in 2013.Together with the procedure of launching, evaluating and concluding calls for proposals, the sector manages several projects, essentially contracts concluded with UN agencies (targeted actions).Finally, the sector provides quality support to Delegations in the implementation of the 4 policies, even if the major support activities focus on gender equality and child rights. Two advisory services' contracts have been concluded with GEWE and CR experts. The description of the former is available on the last page of this Newsletter. For the latter, please contact the head of sector.Three online training courses on gender equality will be provided (see also article on page 8) and specific short training modules will be developed, to be included in larger seminars organised at headquarters or in Delegations to mainstream gender equality in PPCM; Budget Support; Policy Dialogue; Conflict Prevention, Crisis Management and Peace Building; Human Rights and Democratisation; Water and Sanitation; Private Sector; Energy; Agriculture, environment, natural resources.
The gender equality and non discrimination team at DEVCO
headquarters – Below: Martha Mendez (picture on the right here below) and and Virginie Ramey (taking office on the 1st March – on the left side).
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Gender Advisory Services 2012 Gender Advisory Services 2012 Online Gender TrainingOnline Gender Training
DEVCO’s ONLINE COURSES 2012Three ONLINE courses will be offered in 2012 in English. Each course will last approximately 10 learning hours, including readings and exercises. You will receive the support of a personal tutor. There are no fixed time schedules. Participants are free to follow the course at a time which is most convenient for them, as long as they finish it before the closure date. Students who finish the course will receive a certificate.
DEVCO - Gender Online Course 1: Basic Training on Gender and Development / 8th March - 9th April
Registration in Syslog for EC staff:http://www.cc.cec/di/syslog_formation/application/catalogue.cfm?cor_id=385390 Registration in Syslog for EEAS staff via sTESTA:http://intracomm.ec.testa.eu/di/syslog_formation/application/catalogue.cfm?cor_id=385390Do you want to have a meaningful dialogue on gender and development? Then this course is meant for you. You will receive all basic knowledge on the history, key concepts and EU Commitments on gender and development. No previous knowledge on gender issues is required.
DEVCO - Gender Online Course 2: Basic Tools & Strategies for Gender Mainstreaming in EU Development Cooperation / 30th April - 28th May
Registration in Syslog for EC staff:http://www.cc.cec/di/syslog_formation/application/catalogue.cfm?cor_id=385398 Registration in Syslog for EEAS staff via sTESTA:http://intracomm.ec.testa.eu/di/syslog_formation/application/catalogue.cfm?cor_id=385398 Are you interested in the basic tools and strategies to promote gender equality in development cooperation? You will find them in this on-line course. A prerequisite for this course is that you have basic knowledge on key concepts and EU Commitments regarding gender and development. It is recommended to follow first the DEVCO-Online Course 1 before starting this course.
DEVCO - Gender Online Course 3: Gender Mainstreaming through the Project Approach / 18th June – 16th July
Registration in Syslog for EC staff:http://www.cc.cec/di/syslog_formation/application/catalogue.cfm?cor_id=385427 Regoistration in Syslog for EEAS staff via sTESTA:http://intracomm.ec.testa.eu/di/syslog_formation/application/catalogue.cfm?cor_id=385427 Are you involved in EU Development Projects? Then you should not miss this opportunity. This course will give you the tools to enhance gender equality and women’s empowerment in all the phases of project cycle management (PCM). A prerequisite for this course is to be familiar with the EU approach of PCM and to have basic knowledge on gender and development. It is recommended to do the DEVCO-Online Courses 1 and 2 before starting this course.
EU Gender Advisory Services 2012 (GAS) is a project led by AETS to provide training and methodological support on Gender and Development to DEVCO and EEAS staff. The main objective of the EU Gender Advisory Services is to strengthen the gender capacity building of EU staff at HQs and Delegations across all EU external cooperation instruments and development cooperation sectors, including political and policy dialogue, in order to achieve the targets set forth in the EU Action Plan on Gender Equality and Women Empowerment.The team is composed of 2 senior experts assisted by a junior expert.
The specific objectives of this assignment and areas of activity of the GAS, are: Gender Mainstreaming in core EU training courses Three online training courses on gender Guidance and technical assistance to EU staff on implementing the GAP Dissemination and visibility of best practices on gender mainstreaming Strengthen the network of Gender Focal Persons in EU Delegations.
For more information, please contact: [email protected]
For more information about registration for the three online training courses, please contact:
Anne [email protected]
Thera Van Osch, Team Leader, is the course designer of the 3 online courses on gender mainstreaming.Languages: English, Spanish, Dutch and GermanClaire Leloup, Senior expert, also participated in the building of the 3 gender online courses provided by DEVCO and will be the tutor backstopper.Languages: English, French and PortugueseChiara Guidetti, junior expert, will be the tutor of the EC Gender online training. Languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.
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