Training Course on Gender Mainstreaming (GPC001)
Training Course on Gender Mainstreaming
This course offers information on gender mainstreaming a strategy to achieve gender equality. It is a process where participants gain a lens that assist in ensuring the impact of all policies and programmes on women and men should be considered at every stage of the policy or programme cycle — from planning to implementation and evaluation.
The course aims to provide participants with comprehensive knowledge of and skills in gender mainstreaming principles, strategies, and practical sessions that draw on best practice and case studies at national, regional, and global levels. The course also provides the opportunity to focus on individual participants context and employ this knowledge in their workplace through plenary, buzz, group discussions, and field excursion
Join us for this empowering course and get equipped with the knowledge and skills to promote gender-responsive programming. This course is a guide for training project managers, staff, trainer of trainers(TOTs), and target communities and their leaders to wear a gender lens throughout their interventions
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:
- Gain a conceptual clarity on gender terminologies and operational terms
- Gain an understanding of gender mainstreaming principles, strategies, tools and phases.
- Discuss approaches on gender mainstreaming from gender awareness, sensitivity and responsive approaches.
- Enhance capacity of participants to understand and appreciate the importance of gender mainstreaming in programming and work setting.
- To enhance the capacity of staff to mainstream gender issues into the organization’s day to day activities
Organisational Impact
By sending participants to this training course, the organization will gain the following benefits:
- Strengthened capacity to design and implement gender-responsive programs that promote inclusivity and equality.
- Improved staff competence in integrating gender perspectives into all stages of project planning and implementation.
- Enhanced compliance with donor and international gender policies and standards.
- Increased organizational accountability and performance in promoting gender equality and social inclusion.
- A more inclusive and equitable workplace culture that drives sustainable impact.
Personal Impact
By attending the gender mainstreaming training course, participants will acquire the following benefits, skills, and competencies:
- Practical tools and frameworks for applying gender mainstreaming in daily work.
- Enhanced understanding of gender analysis, responsiveness, and transformation.
- Improved confidence and leadership skills to advocate for gender equality.
- Strengthened professional competence and career advancement opportunities in development and humanitarian sectors.
- Ability to influence positive change within their organizations and communities.
Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to Gender and Definition of Terms
- Conceptual clarity on gender concepts, building a common understanding on gender and development.
- Gender mainstreaming background
- Why gender mainstreaming
- Gender Mainstreaming levels
Module 2: Five principles of gender mainstreaming
- Gender awareness levels
- Gender equal programming and reporting
- Gender disaggregated data – collecting gender specific data
- Gender differential needs -equal access and utilisation of services and opportunities
- Women and men involvement, participation and decision making
- Equal treatment and integration processes in gender mainstreaming
Module 3: Strategies of Gender Mainstreaming
- Equal representation of all categories of gender, men and women.
- Gender involvement, participation and decision making
- Identify gender issues - equalities and inequalities
- Assess the impact of identified gender issues
- Gender perspectives incorporation in project/programme cycle
Module 4: Tools of Gender Mainstreaming
- Gender needs assessment
- Gender Women empowerment framework
- Moser – triple roles framework
- Havard Analytical framework
- Gender analysis Matrix(GAM)
- Gender capacities and vulnerabilities analysis framework
Module 5: Basic concepts of Gender Mainstreaming
- Gender awareness
- Gender sensitivity
- Gender responsive
- Gender Mainstreaming
- Gender Transformation
Module 6: Challenges of Gender Mainstreaming
- Buy-in – goodwill, political, social and economic factors
- Absence of gender indicators
- Stereotypes
- Myths and misconceptions on gender
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 Mainstreaming course.
Gender mainstreaming is the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action — legislation, policy or programme — in all areas and at all levels, so that women and men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated. It was formally adopted at the Beijing Platform for Action in 1995. Gender mainstreaming is both a goal (gender equality) and a method (systematic integration), and it applies across every sector, not only social services.
Gender mainstreaming runs across the full project cycle: (1) gender analysis at the assessment stage; (2) gender-responsive objectives and indicators during design; (3) sex- and age-disaggregated data in baselines; (4) gender-balanced participation and targeted activities during implementation; (5) gender-sensitive monitoring and reporting; and (6) gender outcomes in evaluation and learning. The course takes you through each step with templates and checks aligned to donor gender markers (OECD-DAC, EU GAP III, USAID).
Gender mainstreaming is a strategy that runs across all programming to make it gender-responsive; women's empowerment is a specific goal — building the economic, political and social agency of women and girls. Most strong gender programmes do both: mainstreaming (so no programme reproduces inequality) plus targeted empowerment (so structural barriers get dismantled). The course explains when to choose each, and how to budget, staff and measure them in combination.
Gender officers, programme managers and M&E staff in NGOs, UN agencies, government and private-sector organisations that want to embed gender considerations into policy, programmes and operations. HR teams reviewing equal-opportunity policies also benefit.
No. We assume no prior academic exposure to gender theory — the course starts from core concepts (sex vs gender, practical vs strategic needs) and builds to applied tools. General familiarity with development or humanitarian programming is helpful but not required.
You will be able to conduct a gender analysis, integrate gender-responsive indicators into an M&E framework, draft a gender-responsive budget and programme design, and make the business case for gender mainstreaming to senior leadership.
Yes — each cohort runs both online (live-instructor-led over Zoom) and in-person at our training venues across Nairobi, Kigali, Mombasa, Lagos, Cape Town, Addis Ababa, Juba, Cairo and Dubai. Both formats issue the Perk Group Africa certificate of completion with a verification code.
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