Gender training

In addition to providing gender education and training, KIT aims to contribute to thinking and reflecting upon the state of gender training.

A gender training guide was successfully launched in Copenhagen on June 15, 2009. Christine Hunter, Franz Wong and Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay (Royal Tropical Institute) developed this online training tool for Gendernet, a network of Danish NGOs promoting gender equality and rights through development work. The Facilitators Guide for Gender Training is a resource to support gender focal points and others who train development workers on issues of gender and equality.

In 2007 'Revisiting gender training - the making and remaking of gender knowledge' revisits the issue by critically examining the challenges faced by practitioners. Franz Wong and Maitrayee, KIT Development Policy & Practice are Guest Editors of this publication and the authors of the Introductory chapter.

The conference 'Revisiting studies and training in gender and development' (14-16 May 2007, Amsterdam) was organized to critically analyse gender training and understand its role in relation to other efforts to forward gender equality.

Within the context of the conference, the Dgroup Gender Training was created in August 2006 and an electronic discussion was held from August 28-September 22, 2006 to generate ideas for a publication on gender training. A summary of the electronic discussion has been included as a document at the 'In-depth page' of this dossier.

In 1998 'Gender training: the source book' was published. It reflects on experiences of gender training practitioners in South Asia, Middle East, Eastern and Southern Africa.

Publications

• Gender training
• Revisiting gender training - the making and remaking of gender knowledge
• Revisiting studies and training in gender and development: the making and re-making of gender knowledge
• Gender knowledge production and dissemination in development
• Mainstreaming gender or 'streaming' gender away: feminists marooned in the development business

Projects

• Workshop Gender, Development & Participatory Governance 2004
• Global gender training
• Training in gender mainstreaming for UNESCO staff in Dakar and Paris
• Building gender synergy, mechanisms, actions, rights and training
• Gender Training UNDP
• Gender training in Somalia