Gender Trainings
The Office of Gender Equality & Women's Empowerment (GEWE) has sponsored gender training workshops at USAID Missions around the globe. Trainings have focused on four areas:
Gender Integration Training
Integrating Attention to Gender in Development Programming - SOUTHERN AFRICA
USAID/Pretoria • February 2011
Pretoria, South Africa
USAID/Pretoria and EGAT/GEWE collaborated on a 3-day gender training in Pretoria from February 22-24, 2011. Beyond Pretoria Mission staff and partners, the training was attended by staff from 12 USAID missions in the region — including Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia. Participants discussed gender as the basis of an analytic framework and as a cross-cutting issue in their development programs. Program areas covered included gender-based violence, health, HIV, microfinance, food security, and agriculture. Participants also explored gendered power relationshiops and masculinity and reviewed and discussed approaches, best practices, and principles in engaging men and boys in promoting gender equality.
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Integrating Attention to Gender in Development Programming - CARIBBEAN
USAID/Dominican Republic • November 2010
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
USAID/Dominican Republic and EGAT/GEWE collaborated on a 3-day gender training in Santo Domingo, from November 8-10, 2010. Mission staff and implementing partners, from several USAID missions in the region—including the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Guyana — attended and discussed gender as a cross-cutting issue in their development programs and as the basis of an analytic framework.
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Integrating Attention to Gender in Development Programming - CENTRAL ASIA
USAID/Central Asian Republics • October 2010
Almaty, Kazakhstan
USAID/Central Asian Republics (USAID/CAR) and EGAT/GEWE collaborated on a 3-day regional gender training, hosted at the Mission in Almaty, Kazakhstan in October 2010. Mission staff and implementing partners from the region attended and discussed gender as a cross-cutting issue in their various programs, and as the basis of an analytic framework.
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Integrating Attention to Gender in Development Programming - CENTRAL AMERICA
USAID/Panama • October 2010
Panama City, Panama
USAID/Panama and EGAT/GEWE collaborated on a 3-day regional gender training, hosted at the Mission in Panama City in October 2010. Mission staff and implementing partners from the Latin American region attended and discussed gender as a cross-cutting issue in their various programs. The training included strategies on how to address gender in the specific cross-cutting issues of women's empowerment, gender-based violence, and trafficking in persons. Additional sessions stressed the gender-related requirements in the ADS, ideas on how to integrate gender at the project and activity levels, and a guide on the creation of gender-aware solicitations.
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Integrating Attention to Gender in Development Programming - SOUTH & EAST ASIA
USAID/RDMA • August - September 2010
Bangkok, Thailand
USAID/RDMA and EGAT/GEWE collaborated on this 4-day regional gender training in Bangkok in August-September 2010. Mission staff and implementing partners, from several USAID missions in the region, attended and discussed gender as a cross-cutting issue in their development programs and as the basis of an analytic framework.
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Integrating Attention to Gender in Development Programming - ANDEAN REGION
USAID/Peru • August 2010
Lima, Peru
USAID/PERU and EGAT/GEWE collaborated on a 3-day regional gender training, hosted at the Mission in Lima in August 2010. Mission staff and implementing partners from the Andean region attended and discussed gender as a cross-cutting issue in their various programs, and as the basis of an analytic framework. The training included a panel discussion on gender-based violence (GBV), modules on monitoring and evaluation and gender sensitive indicators and the recent strengthening of the ADS, and a presentation on a GBV prevention program in Bolivia, among others.
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Integrating Attention to Gender in Development Programming - TANZANIA
USAID/Tanzania • May 2010
Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
USAID/Tanzania and EGAT/GEWE collaborated on a successful four-day gender training in Dar Es Salaam in May 2010. Mission staff and implementing partners came together in several cohorts to discuss gender as a crosscutting issue in their development programs and as the basis of an analytic framework
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Gender Integration Workshop - MIDDLE EAST
USAID/Egypt • November 2008
Cairo, Egypt
This workshop provided opportunities for USAID and its partners from the Middle East region (and beyond) to share experiences and strengthen understandings of gender analysis in the context of USAID's development efforts. Workshop topics ranged from indicator development to donor coordination to the gender dimensions of climate change. Participants included Mission staff from Egypt, Jordan, Nigeria, Sudan, Afghanistan, and the recently established Office of Middle East Coordination (OMEP). Also attending were a number of implementing partners and NGOs.
The workshop was organized by the Short-Term Technical Assistance and Training (STTA) project with support from USAID/Cairo and the EGAT/GEWE Office.
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Economic Growth Training
Sponsored by the GEWE Office through the Greater Access to Trade Expansion (GATE) Project
GATE East Africa Regional Workshop - EAST AFRICA
USAID/East Africa • December 2008
Nairobi, Kenya
This workshop brought together USAID staff and implementing partners from four East African countries to explore the importance of gender issues in economic growth and trade activities. The workshop objectives were to share results of four years of work in this area by the GATE Project, generate additional best practices in addressing gender issues in economic growth activities, stimulate regional dialogue on GATE’s work and best practices, and discuss important gender-related issues in USAID economic growth programs. Representatives from USAID funded economic growth and trade projects in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda participated in the workshop.
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Gender Workshop for Economic Growth and Environment Team and Partners - PERU
USAID/Peru • March 2007
Lima, Peru
Recognizing the critical role implementing partners play in supporting USAID/Peru's commitment to gender integration, the GATE/Peru training enhanced the Bangladesh model by designing a workshop for the USAID/Peru Economic Growth and Environment (EGE) team and its implementing partners. The training used practical examples and designing exercises based on the scope and nature of Peru's economic growth and environment program. It encouraged USAID staff and partners to work together to identify specific strategies and actions that could be implemented as part of a joint Gender Action Plan.
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Helping the Agriculture, Business & Environment Office & its Partners Identify Gender Challenges & Opportunities - KENYA
USAID/Kenya • October 2007
Nairobi, Kenya
Building on the concept implemented in Peru, the GATE/Kenya training was designed to provide a collaborative workshop with USAID/Kenya's Agriculture, Business and Environment Office (ABEO) team and their implementing partners. Together, they identified gender challenges in their economic growth and natural resource programs, and assessed opportunities for augmenting the impact of projects on men and women.
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Determining the Role of Gender in Economic Trade - BANGLADESH
USAID/Bangladesh • October 2005
Dhaka, Bangladesh
The GATE/Bangladesh training was designed for the USAID/Bangladesh Economic Growth, Food and Environment (EGFE) team. Training materials focus on gender and trade issues and are presented in a clear and uncomplicated manner, taking much of the mystery out of how to determine if and where gender plays a role in trade activities. The materials provide excellent exercises and guides to identify where gender issues need to be addressed in order to enhance the development outcome of an activity.
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Trafficking in Persons Training
USAID Regional Anti-Trafficking Workshop - LATIN AMERICA
USAID/LAC • February 16 – 18, 2011
Guatemala City, Guatemala
EGAT/GEWE, along with its implementing partner, Chemonics, conducted a three-day anti-trafficking training workshop that focused on combating trafficking in persons (TIP) in Latin America. Held in Guatemala City, Guatemala, the workshop brought USAID officers from missions throughout the region. They were provided with an overview of trafficking in persons (TIP), with particular attention paid to the regional context. Laws and treaties covering TIP, the U.S Government's responses to TIP, and USAID's Code of Conduct were also reviewed. In interactive sessions, participants examined cases of human trafficking and explored the challenges, lessons, and best practices in prevention of TIP, protection of victims, and prosecution of traffickers.
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Gender-Based Violence/Trafficking in Persons Training
USAID Workshop on Gender-Based Violence & Trafficking in Persons - WORLDWIDE
USAID/Washington • February 16 – 19, 2010
Washington DC, United States
In February 2010, EGAT/GEWE conducted a four-day, DC-based training workshop on gender-based violence (GBV) and trafficking in persons (TIP) for USAID staff. This was the first USAID training workshop combining these two critical and high priority topics. Participants included 30 mission staff from 19 countries representing all five regions, along with staff from the EGAT, DCHA, Global Health, Africa, E&E and Middle East Bureaus. The training focused on understanding common GBV and TIP issues; sharing best practices; exploring expert guidance from USAID, USG, and development partners; and demonstrating a variety of tools for staff to use when identifying program priorities and designing focused projects.
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