GENDER MAINSTREAMING at THE WORKPLACE​​

Gender Mainstreaming at the workplace involves making gender perspectives, what people of all genders do and the resources and decision-making processes they have access to, more central to all policy development, research, advocacy, development, implementation and monitoring and financial allocations of all programs.  Our programs aim at empowering organisations to prevent gender-based occupational segregation that contribute to inequality by:​

• ​Horizontal segregation: the tendency of men and women to be employed in different occupations (e.g. construction workers or teachers)
  
• Vertical segregation: the tendency of men and women to be employed in different positions within the same occupation or occupational group (e.g. the majority of school heads may be men while the majority of teachers are women) 
  

GENDER MAINSTREAMING in EDUCATION​​​

Gender Mainstreaming in education involves a gender transformative approach to education goes beyond recognising gender disparities within the education system and the learning experience of the student, and strives to harness the full potential of education to transform attitudes and practices within and beyond the education system to contribute to a broader environment of gender justice for girls and boys in all their diversity.​

This means recognising the root causes of discriminatory gender norms and unequal power relationships and structures, and analysing how the tools and process of education can bring about change.

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GENDER MAINSTREAMING at THE WORKPLACE TRAINING PROGRAMS

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Awareness raising and capacity building 

Step-by-step sensitisation at all levels, including the building of gender analysis skills at a technical level. Working together with the Human Resources and the Gender Units of your organisation we can:

- Provide backstopping to all GFP and directorates in the implementation of their gender action plans;

- Incorporate the gender policy and training in orientation of new staff;

- Hold regular workshops on gender, using the ICTIDC Gender Mainstreaming Toolkits and other custom-made resources;

- Run online part-time courses on gender using the ICTIDC Gender Mainstreaming Toolkits;

- Establish forums for discussions and debate.

Performance management systems

ICTIDC works in cooperation with your organisation to measure performance both at an organisational and program level, as well as at an individual level. We can therefore offer tools for gender integration into new Performance Management Systems (PMS) through:

- Including gender equality indicators in job descriptions, contracts and performance assessments, particularly at management and senior levels that strategically influence organisational development and performance

- The implementation of the results of the job evaluation, as well as the upcoming skills audit.

Monitoring and Evaluation​

The gender impact of results and delivery on each organisation’s work could be measured through gender indicators as part of the monitoring and evaluation system. We will design with your organisation both qualitative and quantitative indicators in order to keep regular, accurate and updated gender disaggregated statistics.

Methods will be provided to identify and record who is benefiting, from a gender perspective:

 - Gender sensitive indicators as an integral part of all key result areas at planning, project and program levels.

-  Gender equality as a standing item on the agenda of the organisations management meetings.

GENDER MAINSTREAMING in EDUCATION - TRAINING PROGRAMS

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GENDER TRANSFORMATIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING

Moving from gender-sensitive and gender-responsive approaches towards a more proactive and participatory gender-transformative process for a more inclusive and gender equal education and training for all. As UNESCO report on GTET is pointing out, enabling a gender-transformative approach in all learning environments can have transformational power – for trainers, trainees, and their institutions. If implemented systematically, it can also positively change the attitudes of learners and impact society.

Learning outcomes

A gender transformative approach responds to this by targeting the prejudicial laws that restrict access to school for married adolescents, engaging with communities, including girls themselves, boys and men, women and other community influencers to challenge such practices, and promoting teaching approaches and curricula that counter gender inequalities and empower learners to realise their right to education.

This group of learning programs covers the process of awareness-raising, knowledge-building and skills-development in gender mainstreaming for gender equal and gender inclusive educational and training programs.

A step-by-step awareness-building and skills development learning process will be leading all learners towards:

• Understand the basic principles of gender analysis applied to education programming.
• Identify gender norms that pose barriers to girls’ and boys’ education and learning.
  
• Use and represent different types of data (quantitative and qualitative) to uncover gender disparities in education.
  
• Understand gender-responsive programming in the programme design phase: constructing theories of change, programme strategy notes, and selecting effective interventions for a given context.
  
• Become familiar with selected evidence-based interventions proven to effectively improve gender equality in education, benefiting both girls and boys, especially the most marginalised.
  
• Become familiar with selected tools to monitor gender results and expenditures in education programmes.
  
• Explain how cross-sectoral approaches are essential to improving gender equality in education
  
• Understand key elements of scaling up education programmes focused on achieving gender equality.