Training Course on Gender Equality and Social Inclusion GESI (GPC007)
Training Course on Gender Equality and Social Inclusion GESI
This course offers information on gender equality and social inclusion key definitions and terminologies applied in attaining gender equality outcomes and ensuring inequalities are addressed.
The course aims to provide participants with dimensions of gender equality beginning with definition of key concepts, an understating of social inclusion, status and domains of GESI
Participants at the end of the training will be equipped with actions that address unequal power relations, inequalities, reducing of existing disparities in ensuring equal rights, responsibilities, opportunities and respect for all individuals
Course Duration
Online Training: 5 days (4hrs per day)
Classroom Training: 5 days (7hrs per day)
Course Objectives
By attending the gender mainstreaming training course you will be able to:
- Participants will be taken through a common understanding of gender
- Participants will discuss and gain a conceptual clarity on gender roles, gender division of labor, power dynamics, gender needs and gender equality and equity
- Participants will be taken through definition of social inclusion
- Enhance capacity of participants on social systems, status of women, youths and PWDs in existing systems
- Participants will be taken through the key elements of social inclusion.
- Enhance the capacity of participants on domains of GESI
- Enable participants to gain capacity on tools that enhance GESI implementation
Course Outline
Module 1: Building a common understanding of gender
- Definition of gender, social construct of gender, culture and gender
- Gender vs sex
- Definition and understanding of gender roles and gender division of labour
- Gender discrimination
- Discussion on gender needs
Module 2: Gender equality and gender equity
- Definition of gender equality
- Gender equality approaches
- Definition of gender equity
- Equality vs equity
Module 3: Social Inclusion and in place social aspect
- Definition of social inclusion.
- Existing social systems
- Social systems,
- Status of women, youths and PWDs in existing systems
- Social Exclusion, symptoms and vulnerable groups
Module 4: Social Inclusion Framework
- Ability
- Opportunity
- Dignity
Module 5: Domains of GESI
- Access
- Participation
- Wellbeing
- Systems
- Decision making
Module 6: Tools of GESI
- Intersectionality approach
- GESI assessment
- Equal access of services, opportunities and resources
- Principle of leave nobody behind/Do No Harm
- Men and boys engagement
Note: The specific content, activities, and duration of each session may be adjusted based on the target audience, learning objectives, and available time.
Course Language
English
Training Methodology
Presentations are well guided, practical exercise, a plenary presentation, and group work. Participants are encouraged to bring any data relevant to their job responsibilities. This is hands-on, product-oriented training and will mostly involve practical exercises. Each participant MUST bring along their own working laptop and android phone.
Certification
Upon completion of training, the participant will be issued with a certificate of Completion.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the Training Course on Gender Equality and Social Inclusion GESI course.
GESI — Gender Equality and Social Inclusion — is the integrated approach to addressing inequality based on gender alongside other markers of exclusion such as disability, age, ethnicity, caste, poverty and sexual orientation. GESI recognises that people experience disadvantage in layered ways (intersectionality) and that addressing gender alone leaves other excluded groups behind. Donors including FCDO, DFAT and the World Bank have shifted their programme frameworks from gender-only to GESI over the last decade.
Donors require GESI analysis because programme evidence is clear: without intentional inclusion, projects tend to reach the already-advantaged first. GESI analysis at proposal stage forces design teams to identify who risks being excluded, why, and what the design will do about it — with measurable indicators. Donor frameworks like FCDO's Inclusive Societies Approach, DFAT's Gender Equality Thematic Strategy and USAID's Inclusive Development policy all mandate GESI-responsive design and reporting.
A GESI-responsive programme starts with a GESI analysis that maps excluded groups, barriers and power dynamics; sets disaggregated targets across gender, disability and other exclusion markers; designs targeted components to reach those furthest behind; collects disaggregated data through GESI-sensitive indicators; and explicitly addresses the social norms and institutional rules that sustain exclusion. The course shows you how to operationalise this across assessment, design, M&E and organisational policy.
Programme teams, MEAL staff and senior leadership in NGOs, donor agencies and government bodies that are embedding a Gender Equality and Social Inclusion lens into their strategy and operations. Proposal writers responding to FCDO, USAID and EU tenders with GESI requirements also attend.
GESI explicitly brings social-inclusion dimensions — disability, age, ethnicity, caste, migration status, sexuality — into the analysis alongside gender. The course covers how to run an intersectional GESI assessment, design GESI-responsive indicators, and report on disaggregated outcomes beyond just sex.
Not at all. Many participants take the course precisely because their organisation is rolling GESI out across teams that have not handled it before. We make the frameworks accessible to staff coming in fresh.
Both online and in-person cohorts run regularly. Both issue the Perk Group Africa certificate of completion with a verification code, accepted for CPD records across the development sector.
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