Gender

The aim of the gender sensitive indicators for media is to contribute to gender equality and women's empowerment in and through media of all forms, irrespective of the technology used. It seeks to address the intersection of women's empowerment and media development....

  The Gender and SSR toolkit is an initial response to the need for information and analysis on gender and SSR. It is designed to provide policymakers and practitioners with a practical introduction to why gender issues are important in SSR and what can be done to integrate them. ...

The Gender and SSR Training Resource Package is a series of practical training materials to help trainers integrate gender in SSR training, and deliver effective gender training to SSR audiences. It is designed for SSR trainers and educators, and gender trainers working with the security sector, to help you present material on gender and SSR in an interesting and interactive manner....

The Toolkit was developed in order to increase the knowledge, capacities and exchange regarding the gender aspects of SSR amongst security sector reform policymakers, practitioners and researchers. The Toolkit aims to: Set out why gender is important to SSR processes. Present practical strategies for integrating gender into SSR assessment, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, drawing upon experiences from different SSR contexts and different security sector institutions. Provide material to guide the development of gender-responsive SSR policy, at both international Provide material from which training on gender issues for security sector personnel and SSR practitioners can be developed. Be a references guide on international laws and standards governing women’s rights and gender     ...

In efforts to measure empowerment, do indicators mean what they are supposed to mean? Are the values they reflect appropriate? This paper examines the measurement of three dimensions of empowerment: resources (the conditions under which choices are made); agency (the process by which choices are made); and achievements (the outcomes of choices)....

In January 2012, Search for Common Ground (SFCG), Nepal finished a project called Women Building Community Peace in Eastern Terai. Funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), this project’s overall goal was to strengthen the role of women and girls in the Eastern Terai to be a positive force for peacebuilding at the local level....

  Many bodies aim to mainstream gender, but few track how effective they are in doing so with monitoring and evaluation.  The mechanisms used to monitor and evaluate development programmes, projects and policies have so far been largely gender blind....

Armed conflict is a gendered process. Women and men experience conflict and are vulnerable to its impacts in different ways, determined by the gender roles and identities of masculinity and femininity in each particular society....

Gender mainstreaming is a tool to better understand the causes of inequalities between women and men in our societies and come up with appropriate strategies to tackle them. The goal is to achieve equality between women and men....

In 1995, the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) began working in partnership to manage the “Promoting Women in Development” (PROWID) grants program, funded by the Office of Women in Development at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)....

There is increasing recognition that economically empowering women is essential both to realize women’s rights and to achieve broader development goals such as economic growth, poverty reduction, health, education and welfare. In the last five years, a broad range of organizations have committed themselves to the goal of women’s economic empowerment....

Working toward the reduction and elimination of gender-based violence, ICRW partnered with CARE Balkans and CARE International to implement a groundbreaking program working directly with young men between the ages of 13 and 19 to deconstruct masculinity in their cultures and determine how gender norms and male socialization lead to inequitable attitudes and behaviors toward women and girls. ...

Annotated Bibliography on Gender Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) and Indicators (October 2001) ...

In 2011, Search For Common Ground conducted Focus Group Discussions with Rwandan youth to assess the content and impact of radio drama programs in the Livelihood Skills Development Project, funded by USAID. Discussions regarding the participants’ opinions of the radio story, whether they had listened to it as a training module or were listening to it for the first time, showed a positive impact on Rwandan youth....

The Pathways to Peace program (P2P) sought to structurally transform the way that youth participate in the civic and political arena so that they can make a substantial and positive contribution to the overall peace and democratic processes in Nepal....

According to Search for Common Ground (SFCG)‟s description in its Inception Report, The Team in Morocco “seeks to transform the relationship between individuals from two sides of the economic divide. The series dramatizes the wide and growing gap between the „haves‟ and the „have-nots‟ characterized in the relationship between the wealthy footballer, Mehdi and the poor footballer, Samir....

The statistics on sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are grim. Recent studies have estimated that women are raped at a rate of nearly one per minute. Although Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) has received significant attention, and much is being done in response, the problem persists....

Access in Micro finance and borrowing microcredit and getting working opportunity in garment sectors and another big or small industries or business and other institutions make them financially solvent. Now Micro finance organizations help them to start a small or medium business and by getting these opportunities they can earn and help others to be solvent women....

This glossary defines and discusses 20 core terms related to conflict transformation in the work of the Berghof Foundation. ...

These gender guidelines for peace-building are intended to act as a reference guide to assist AusAID desk officers and post officers, as well as contractors and consultants, to understand and address issues of gender equality in peace-building work....