Training Course on Gender Mainstreaming

Course Overview

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 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

Course Duration: 

Online Training: 5 days (4hrs per day)

Classroom Training: 5 days (7hrs per day)

Who Can Attend the Course?

This course is ideal for:

• Project managers and officers
• Program staff and trainers (TOTs)
• Gender focal persons and inclusion officers
• Policy advisors and community development leaders
• Professionals interested in advancing gender-responsive programming

Organizational 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

Module1: 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: This course outline provides a general structure for the Gender Mainstreaming course. The specific content, activities, and duration of each session may be adjusted based on the target audience, learning objectives, and available time.