Online Certificate Course on Gender Mainstreaming

Course Description

Gender mainstreaming is a strategy to achieve gender equality. This strategy aims at making visible the different impacts on or impact of women and men in a given context. It involves the recognition that the gender division of labor and its associated norms, values, and ideologies are defined by a complex of power relations that tend to accord to women lesser political voice, social/cultural value, and access to and control over economic resources. This course aims to improve participants’ ability to deal with special interventions for gender equality and mainstreaming of gender equality when designing, implementing, and monitoring development interventions.

The course covers practical strategies and skills for mainstreaming gender – including the use of gender planning frameworks; addressing gender issues in logical frameworks and developing gender policies. Critical analysis of current theory and practice is encouraged throughout the course

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the key gender concepts, themes, and gender mainstreaming processes;
• Understand gender mainstreaming as a strategy to achieve gender equality;
• Develop awareness of the challenges to gender mainstreaming and build competency to address these challenges;
• Explain and differentiate the various frameworks for gender analysis as means of gender mainstreaming;
• Strengthen the capacity of relevant actors to apply gender mainstreaming effectively in their organizations or institutions