Royal Tropical Institute: "Revisiting Studies and Training in Gender and Development: the Making and Re-making of Gender Knowledge"
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Sustainable Communities | Gender Equality | Environmental Justice | Environmental Health | Environmental Education | Women's Empowerment | Women's Economic Development | Women's Education | Women's Safety from Violence | Women's Health | Women's Rights | Environmental Law and Policy | Women and the Environment
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The aim of the 'Revisiting studies and training in gender and development'
conference, held in May 2007, was to critically analyse gender training and
understand its role in relation to other efforts to forward gender equality.
The conference was motivated in particular by a concern that attempts to
build gender knowledge in development settings generally privilege formal
learning (or 'didactic') models and often present knowledge as a set of
skills to be acquired. Such an approach has not always achieved the
expected results in terms of changes in gender relations. This conference
report highlights four themes which emerged and were elaborated in the
course of the conference: gender as a contested term; the limitations of
technical approaches to gender training; the problems of 'locating' and
contextualising training programmes; and finally specific challenges that
real world implementation of gender training. Recommendations covered three
main areas: the need to take stock of what has been happening in gender
training in different places, and to adapt training for local contexts; the
need to generate new gender knowledge to drive gender training processes
(i.e. in different languages, addressing different political structures and
processes, and focusing on different institutions); and strategies for
reinvigorating gender training and re-politicising gender knowledge,
including making it more flexible and diverse, and more closely related to
personal experiences.
For further information and to access this resource, please visit
http://www.siyanda.org/search/summary.cfm?NN=3605&ST=SS&Keywords=mainstreaming08&Subject=0&donor=0&langu=E&StartRow=1&Ref=Adv
conference, held in May 2007, was to critically analyse gender training and
understand its role in relation to other efforts to forward gender equality.
The conference was motivated in particular by a concern that attempts to
build gender knowledge in development settings generally privilege formal
learning (or 'didactic') models and often present knowledge as a set of
skills to be acquired. Such an approach has not always achieved the
expected results in terms of changes in gender relations. This conference
report highlights four themes which emerged and were elaborated in the
course of the conference: gender as a contested term; the limitations of
technical approaches to gender training; the problems of 'locating' and
contextualising training programmes; and finally specific challenges that
real world implementation of gender training. Recommendations covered three
main areas: the need to take stock of what has been happening in gender
training in different places, and to adapt training for local contexts; the
need to generate new gender knowledge to drive gender training processes
(i.e. in different languages, addressing different political structures and
processes, and focusing on different institutions); and strategies for
reinvigorating gender training and re-politicising gender knowledge,
including making it more flexible and diverse, and more closely related to
personal experiences.
For further information and to access this resource, please visit
http://www.siyanda.org/search/summary.cfm?NN=3605&ST=SS&Keywords=mainstreaming08&Subject=0&donor=0&langu=E&StartRow=1&Ref=Adv
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