Training for Gender-Responsive Campaigning and Advocacy

A recent learning event on gender in the Strategic Partnerships (“Gender? Whoops!”), co-organized by Partos and WO=MEN, concluded that systematic attention for gender requires strong organisational commitment, sufficient gender capacity, and a gender focus in the theory of change and monitoring and evaluation (M&E).

KIT is offering a new training on Gender-Responsive Campaigning and Advocacy to support consortia members to engender their design of new projects. The training is offered in consultation with Partos and WO=MEN, and it comes in light of the anticipated Ministry of Foreign Affairs(MFA) 2019 “Power of Voices” call for new Strategic Partnerships proposals.

Start: 1/10/2019

Duration: Three weekly, sequential sessions of 4 hours each (13:00-17:00) on 1) Tuesday October 1, 2019 2) Tuesday October 8, 2019 3) Tuesday October 15, 2019

Location: To be decided

Language: English

Course Fee: Eur 750

Fee Discount: 10% discount for Partos Members, and for every third (or more) participant from the same organisation

Other Fee Discount: One free course fee for organisations who host all three trainings (suitable training room, equipment and supplies as well as break refreshments) and have at least one paid participant from their organisation or consortia.

Application Deadline: 30/08/2019

Contact: gender@kit.nl

Content

This series of workshops is designed for consortia teams to develop a collective understanding of gender-responsive campaigning and advocacy. Participants will learn to work with gender and power analysis, including how it applies to theories of change and the dimensions of gender-responsive M&E. Practical guidance will also be provided on how to identify gender outcomes (the “what”), and mechanisms to track change (the “how”).

The overall aim is to help teams to better integrate gender concerns in their problem analysis and design of campaigning and advocacy in light of the upcoming MFA call for proposals.

To get the most from the training, KIT strongly advises the attendance of two or more persons from each consortia to better embed learnings and ensure they are translated into gender-responsive campaigning and advocacy. Ideally these individuals should be the senior consortia member; an appointed gender officer/advisor should also attend.

These workshops serve as the basis for additional KIT support that can be arranged as an add on comprised of mentoring and/or advisory services tailored to the project needs.

Objectives

At the end of the training, the participants should be able to:

describe what gender is and do a power analysis
integrate gender and power analysis into a Theory of Change, and
describe gender-responsive M&E for campaigning and advocacy initiatives

Approach

Use of mix methods including mini-lectures, group activities, case study and homework readings.

Application

be involved in campaigning and advocacy
have basic knowledge of gender concepts (or have taken a free, basic online course prior to training^[1])
speak and write in proficient English, and
be able to attend all three sessions.

Applicants should:

^[1] For example, see modules 1 and 2 from UN Women I Know Gender

Registration

To register for this course please fill in the following form

KIT Gender

KIT Gender has a proven track record of capacity strengthening for gender equality and has been a pioneer in gender training theory and practice. Our gender training expertise and experience builds from seminal global gender and rights training programmes first established in 1989. Today we offer organizational-wide training initiatives as well as stand-alone training activities as part of wider programmes in support of gender mainstreaming. Core to these are a demonstrated understanding of and experience with gender and development, grounded in theory and practice, which we bring to all phases of training. Trainers for this offer include Franz Wong, Anouka van Eerdewijk and Julie Newton.