Gender-focused training resources, handbooks, and case studies from around the world by Apolitical

Gender Equality Tools for Parliamentarians in the Caribbean

apolitical_courses — 2023-10-02 15:32:00 UTC

An interactive learning portal for parliamentarians, brought to you by a joint initiative of ParlAmericas and the UN Women Multi-Country Office - Caribbean. It is designed for self-guided online learning and additionally includes resources that can be used for in-person training.

Areas of work: Gender Equality

Further information:

https://parlgendertools.org/en/

Participatory Research Toolkit

apolitical_courses — 2023-10-02 15:32:00 UTC

This Participatory Research Toolkit introduces nine participatory tools, each accompanied by an explanation of its specific measurement focus. The toolkit also features real-world examples of how these tools have been employed, along with step-by-step instructions for their use. Concluding the guide are recommendations for analysing the data generated, aimed at qualitatively assessing social norms.

Areas of work: Participatory Research, Qualitative Research Methods

Further information:

https://www.unicef.org/media/90816/file/FGM-Research-toolkit.pdf

Training Implementation Manual: Sexual & Reproductive Rights, Ending Violence Against Women and Girls, Policy and Budget Advocacy In West and Central Africa Region

apolitical_courses — 2023-10-02 15:32:00 UTC

A guide on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), Reproductive Rights (RR), and Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (EVAWG) in West and Central Africa. This training aims to create trainers who will further disseminate this knowledge. Various learning styles are accommodated through modules, group activities, and presentations, enabling participants to apply their learnings in their own settings.

Areas of work: Sexual & Reproductive Rights, EVAWG, Gender Equality & Equity

Further information: https://www.femnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/SRHR-Training-Manual_Engish-version.pdf

Toolkit for more gender-responsive action plans

apolitical_courses — 2023-10-02 16:11:33 UTC

Gender equality matters for both the legitimacy and the effectiveness of the Open Government Partnership (OGP). The Toolkit contains four useful tools to help users enhance gender responsiveness in the action plan co-creation process.

Areas of work: Gender Equality, Gender Responsiveness

Further information: https://www.opengovpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Gender-toolkit.pdf

How Buenos Aires uses data to mainstream gender

apolitical_courses — 2023-10-04 09:51:51 UTC

Putting women front and centre in the policymaking process requires patience, determination and a team with the right skills

Areas of work: Gender mainstreaming, Technology and Government Innovation, Gender Equality

Further information: https://apolitical.co/solution-articles/en/how-buenos-aires-uses-data-to-mainstream-gender

Innovation through Psychological Safety: Lessons from LA-BORA! gov in Brazil

apolitical_courses — 2023-10-04 09:58:12 UTC

In the ever-evolving landscape of public service, innovation isn't just a choice: it's an essential element for progress. But here's the catch: real innovation hinges on something often overlooked – psychological safety. It's about creating an environment where public servants feel secure to share their ideas, take calculated risks and drive towards necessary change. This is the story of LA-BORA! gov, an innovation lab in Brazil, and its remarkable journey in making this happen.

Areas of work: Inclusive Environments, Psychological Safety

Case study link: https://apolitical.co/solution-articles/en/innovation-through-psychological-safety

Equal Measures: Theory of Change

apolitical_courses — 2023-10-04 09:59:06 UTC

TBC

Areas of work: Gender Equality

Further information: TBC

The RESPECT Framework

apolitical_courses — 2023-10-04 15:00:57 UTC

‘RESPECT Women: Preventing violence against women’, is an evidence-based framework for policy makers to strengthen and scale up efforts to prevent violence against women. RESPECT outlines a set of action-oriented steps to support policy makers and programme implementers to design, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate programmes using seven strategies to prevent violence against women.

Areas of work: Preventing Violence Against Women & Girls

Further information: https://respect-prevent-vaw.org/

Making Progress in Prevention Possible: A monitoring framework for the prevention of violence against women and girls in the Asia-Pacific region

apolitical_courses — 2023-10-04 15:04:44 UTC

This document, created by UN Women and The Equality Institute, provides a tailored prevention monitoring framework for the Asia-Pacific region. It aims to assist policymakers and practitioners in constructing a relevant framework and offers guidelines for measuring short, medium, and long-term progress.

Areas of work: Preventing Violence Against Women & Girls

Further information: https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2021/07/making-progress-in-prevention-possible#view

Counting on change

apolitical_courses — 2023-10-04 15:06:14 UTC

Counting on change is a guide for policy-makers, researchers, and advocates on measuring population-level progress towards the prevention of violence against women and their children in Australia.

Areas of work: Preventing Violence Against Women & Girls

Further information: https://www.ourwatch.org.au/resource/counting-on-change-a-guide-to-prevention-monitoring/

Gender Works Toolkit

apolitical_courses — 2023-10-04 15:08:26 UTC

The second half of this Oxfam handbook (from page 63) is a practical guide to help public bodies comply with equalities legislation and tackle poverty among women more effectively.

Areas of work: Gender Equality, Social Exclusion

Further information: https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/genderworks-toolkit-189820/

Compendium of Good Practices In Training for Gender Equality

apolitical_courses — 2023-10-04 15:11:21 UTC

The ‘Compendium of Good Practices in Training for Gender Equality’ brings together diverse practices from several world regions. It offers in-depth information on ten different good practices, including detailed outlines of training courses; examples of dealing with challenges that arise in training for gender equality; and a collection of tools and activities for use in such training initiatives.

Areas of work: Gender Equality

Further information: https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/Library/Publications/2016/compendium-of-good-practices-in-training-for-gender-equality.pdf

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Gender Equality Toolbox

apolitical_courses — 2023-10-04 15:12:52 UTC

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Gender Equality Toolbox is made up of tools that can help with the designing, managing and measuring the impact of gender intentional and gender transformative programs and investments. Click on the link below for useful resources on measurement, including useful indicators and data collection methods.

Areas of work: Gender Equality

Further information: https://www.gatesgenderequalitytoolbox.org/measuring-empowerment/

Towards a Gender-Transformative Organisation: Toolkit

apolitical_courses — 2023-10-04 15:14:37 UTC

This toolkit outlines a step-by-step approach to gender transformation within an organisation. Including: running a participatory gender self-assessment, and guidelines on how to take affirmative action through an ‘Organisational Gender Action Plan’ which can be implemented and measured over time.

Areas of work: Gender Equality

Further information: https://www.wecf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/OGAP-toolkit-EN-.pdf

Gender Equality Training: Gender Mainstreaming Toolkit

apolitical_courses — 2023-10-04 15:18:13 UTC

This toolkit from the European Institute for Gender Equality is designed to stimulate investment in the gender equality skills of policymakers and public administration employees and to facilitate the process of designing effective gender equality training.

Areas of work: Gender Equality

Further information: https://eige.europa.eu/publications-resources/publications/gender-equality-training-gender-mainstreaming-toolkit

Gender Equality Academy

apolitical_courses — 2023-10-04 15:19:47 UTC

The GE Academy was a Horizon 2020 project aimed at developing and implementing a high-quality capacity-building programme on gender equality in research, innovation and higher education. This project ended in 2021, however their website still contains lots of useful resources including multilingual training sessions hosted on YouTube.

Areas of work: Gender Equality

Further information: https://ge-academy.eu/

Social Norms Atlas: Understanding global social norms and related concepts

apolitical_courses — 2023-12-12 11:21:14 UTC

This document provides guidance and further understanding of social norms and related concepts. It is written for program planners, implementers, evaluators, and researchers interested in building their social norms vocabulary and knowledge and strengthening their understanding of the social norms relevant to particular sectors. This document provides a high-level overview of illustrative social norms and related behaviours and attitudes in specific sectors and contexts and is meant to be used as a starting point for users to further consider norms particular to their sector(s) of interest.

Areas of work: Gender social norms

Further information: https://irh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Social-Norms-Atlas.pdf

Reproductive Justice: An Introduction

apolitical_courses — 2023-12-12 11:35:21 UTC

Reproductive justice is a framework to analyse situations and to become politically active. This brochure is intended to help make reproductive justice accessible to as many people as possible. It is meant for people who seek advice, information, and support to make self-determined decisions about contraception, the desire to have children, pregnancy, abortion, birth and life with children. It is also meant for people who want to support the fight for reproductive justice on the political level.

Areas of work: Health and Well-being

Further information: https://www.boell.de/sites/default/files/2023-08/reproductive_justice_introduction.pdf

Sexual Violence Research Initiative

apolitical_courses — 2023-12-12 11:55:13 UTC

The Sexual Violence Research Initiative is a network of people who aim to promote research on sexual violence globally and its use to improve national responses. Their online platform includes links to relevant resources from around the world.

Areas of work: Violence Prevention and Response

Further information: https://www.svri.org/world-map

Gender Audit Tool by ODIHR

apolitical_courses — 2023-12-12 12:47:43 UTC

The ODIHR gender audit methodology for political parties consists of a set of questions intended to help identify the level of gender equality in political party structures, processes, procedures, and formal and informal practices. The results produced can support political parties in identifying their strengths and areas of development as well as provide good practices from all over the OSCE region to enhance gender equality. They can serve as a roadmap for development of gender equality within the party.

Areas of work: Gender Equality

Further information: https://genderaudit.osce.org/

How Buenos Aires used public innovation to improve gender equality during Covid-19

apolitical_courses — 2023-12-20 17:10:28 UTC

The problem: Gender equality remains difficult to achieve.

Why it matters: An imbalanced government results in imbalanced policies.

The solution: The pandemic allowed a rethink of staffing and uncovered hidden talent.

Areas of work: Gender equality

Further information: https://apolitical.co/solution-articles/en/how-buenos-aires-used-public-innovation-improve-gender-equality-covid-19

Thai Women’s Unpaid Care and Domestic Work and the Impact on Decent Employment

apolitical_courses — 2023-12-20 17:12:00 UTC

Women’s unpaid care and domestic work, together with its impact on labour market participation, has become an increasingly important topic in the global policy arena. The pervasive belief in most communities that women are caregivers has shaped labour markets all over the world. This report contributes to understanding the overall magnitude, dynamics, and impacts of unpaid care and domestic work on women in Thailand and identifies several crucial measures to address the dynamic.

Areas of work: Economic Empowerment

Further information: https://www.undp.org/thailand/publications/thai-womens-unpaid-care-and-domestic-work-and-impact-decent-employment

Adapting a violence-prevention curriculum in Timor-Leste

apolitical_courses — 2023-12-20 17:13:21 UTC

To prevent violence against women and girls in Timor-Leste, the Nabila Programme set out to adapt, translate and implement ‘Stepping Stones’ a well-known evidence-based model. Nabilan partnered with the Prevention Collaborative to work on the adaptation, drawing on elements from other models to complement Stepping Stones. The outcome is NeNaMu, a programme and curriculum in Tetum, one of the country’s official languages. Lessons from NeNaMu offer guidance for other groups seeking to work in partnership to adapt, test and implement violence-prevention training models.

Areas of work: Violence Prevention and Response

Further information: https://prevention-collaborative.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/11F_Nenamu-Long-Brief.pdf

The Role of Middle Managers in Progressing Gender Equity in the Public Service

apolitical_courses — 2023-12-20 17:14:27 UTC

Gender inequities remain in the public service, including under-representation in leadership positions, a gender pay gap, unevenly distributed unpaid labour outside work, and conscious and unconscious biases towards women workers. This report focuses on the specific challenges that middle managers in New Zealand’s public service encounter in progressing gender equity.

Areas of work: Education and Skills Development

Further information: https://www.aut.ac.nz/data/assets/pdf_file/0018/212373/The-Role-of-Middle-Managers-in-Progessing-Gender-Equity-Report.pdf