Gender & Development - Online

How to we move beyond gender to mean 'women' and consider gender to be an identity marker that incorporates both men and women - but also the many culturally specific gender's world wide that go beyond the binary? 

How do we start to create women's inclusive programming that includes women in all their diversity? 

How do we create programming that includes women with disabilities, women with diverse sexualities (lesbian, bisexual and queer women) women with diverse gender histories (people assigned male at birth) and intersex women? 

Join me for a five week workshop to unpack these questions and to take steps towards practical implementation of more 'gender inclusive' programming. 

This is an online / hybrid activity based training with the use of scenarios to ground the information in practical applications. Participants will be required to attend weekly two hour online workshop sessions and undertake up to two hours (usually less) of offline work per week. Participants will also be expected to connect with each other on email at least once a week.  

By the end of this course, learners will be able to;

• Define gender and other gender related concepts.
• Discuss the historical development & the concept of feminist theory
• Identify major theoretical perspectives on gender and development
• Understand the norms that reinforce sexism, heteronormativity, cisnormativity and gender binarism.
• Unpack and use a gender transformative approach that includes people with diverse genders and diverse gender histories. 
• Unpack case studies that show how gendered based systemic discrimination works in the development system 
• Have practical knowledge on data gathering that includes people outside of binary gender norms
• Understand the differences between gender identity markers and lived experiences and how this relates to better development programming 

Who Should Participate? Program staff, Gender / GESI / GEDSI staff, community members, and INGOs

The specific methodology is based on: 

• Concrete experience: the learner uses their work experiences connected to the learning outcome.
• Reflective observation: the learner reflects and reviews the experience from a range of different perspectives.
• Abstract conceptualisation: the learner analyses and connects the experience to previous learnings and new learnings introduced in the workshop and develops new ideas about the content being taught.
• Active experimentation: the learner acts on their new ideas by experimenting in their work setting.

Weekly zoom training sessions: 

Monday 14th August 2023

Monday 21st August 2023

Monday 28th August 2023

Monday 4th September 2023

Monday 11th September 2023

Cost: 

$425.00 +BF Professional practitioners 

$325.00 +BF Early Bird sale - Professional Practitioners (purchase tickets before Friday 14th July 2023 to get the early bird special) 

$325.00 +BF (Local or international) Development Students (under-grad or post grad) 

$225.00 +BF First Nations folks working with their communities. 

Where: Online / Hybrid 

What to Bring: Pens, notebook, computer

What Next? Once you have paid your attendance fee, you will be sent further information including the zoom link.