Gender equality and women’s empowerment are central to development and peace. The new aid effectiveness agenda must offer opportunities to strengthen action towards the MDGs and gender equality. 

The overall purpose of this online course is to create greater awareness of these opportunities and initiate further action at the national and the international levels.

Learning objectives

The training course “The global development agenda: tools for gender-sensitive planning and implementation” aims to strengthen national capacity for mainstreaming gender equality in the aid effectiveness agenda and, more broadly, in development. It is done in two ways: (1) by raising awareness of the basic/literacy issues around gender equality, development, aid effectiveness and poverty (awareness level); and (2) by promoting skills and capacities while acquiring action-oriented tools (action-oriented level).

Participants’ profile

The training course is addressed to women and men engaged in development planning and implementation, more specifically:

• National government staff responsible for planning and implementing development policies (Finance and Planning Ministries, other line Ministries, e.g. Labour, Agriculture, Education, Heath and the institutions in charge of Information and Statistics), other development agencies.
• Public gender equality bodies.
• Gender equality advocates from the social partners and civil society organizations, who wish to influence the national development agenda.
• Staff from international/regional development institutions and donor agencies: the UN, the EC and other donors.
• Development practitioners.

  Language : English
  11 March, 2011 / 31 December, 2011