Project title: Women in development technical assistance (WIDTECH)

This report describes the methodology, content, and outcomes of three gender training workshops that USAID/Uganda organized for its staff, partners, field trainers, and farmer organizations in February 2006. The report also presents lessons learned, facilitators' reflections, and recommendations for future trainings. The purpose of the workshops was to train staff and trainers on how to incorporate a message of gender into their everyday trainings.

This study is part of a worldwide research program, Broadening Access and Strengthening Input Market Systems (BASIS). The study was designed to challenge the belief that it is too difficult to apply integrated approaches to the issue of food security. It assumed that the use of gender analysis and participatory processes creates the opportunity and provides the framework for developing integrated approaches to food security, and then it examined examples in four countries — Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda — that applied these approaches to improving household food security.

The purpose of the workshop was to bring together representatives from the Through Our Eyes (TOE) teams (American Refugee Committee staff and partner agency representatives) from each of five country sites. The workshop included sessions focused on sharing of experiences, sensitivities for community media programming, community media innovations and integration, promoting partnerships, formal development of a "Global Network" of community media specialists, and sustainability of programming.

Through Our Eyes (TOE) is implemented by American Refugee Committee and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence, harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. Progress was made on all three project objectives this quarter. Key activities included presentations on TOE at the Global Health Council Conference and the Annual Meeting of the Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises, progress on the TOE toolkit, and near finalization of the TOE desk review.

Through Our Eyes is implemented by American Refugee Committee-International and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence, harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. In the 9th quarter, progress was made on all three project objectives. Key activities included an initial two-week community video training in Thailand in October, planning for an upcoming follow-up training in Uganda, and completion of baseline assessment activities in all five countries.

This is the seventh quarter report of the Through Our Eyes project, covering April 1 - June 30, 2009.  Through Our Eyes is implemented by the American Refugee Committee International and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence, harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. During the seventh quarter, progress was made on all three project objectives.

Through Our Eyes is implemented by the American Refugee Committee International and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence, harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. Progress was made on all three project objectives this quarter. Key activities included recruitment of an intern, review and revision of the desk review, and training and monitoring visits to southern Sudan, Uganda, and Thailand.

Through Our Eyes is implemented by American Refugee Committee and its partner Communication for Change. The project uses community-generated, participatory video activities to address gender-based violence (GBV), harmful traditional practices, and related health concerns in conflict-affected settings. Progress was made on all three project objectives this quarter. Key activities during this quarter included representation at the International AIDS Conference, completion of the Through Our Eyes desk review, and planning for the final evaluation and GBV advocacy video.

Produced by the Equity in the Classroom (EIC) project, this toolkit is a compilation of instruments that permit active research in the classroom and the school to promote increased participation and improved learning by girls and other marginalized students in primary education. The toolkit is designed to orient educators to issues of equity and to help them begin a process of research and inquiry to identify factors in schools and classrooms that limit equitable participation and achievement of girls and other disadvantaged learners.