Mosaic.net International Inc.
Providing Innovative Solutions to Development Issues
Monday July 15, 2013 at 8:00 AM EDT
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Friday July 19, 2013 at 5:00 PM EDT
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Government, UN system, Private Sector
Early Bird: $1595
NGO/Consultant rate
Early Bird: $1295
Full-time student
Proof of full time status required: $ 995.00
One Day Michael Kaufman Session
$395.00 (Tuesday, July 16, 2013)
Workshop fees include: registration, binder of workshop materials, coffee, tea and snacks.
Francoise Coupal, Director & Founder
Mosaic.net International
613-728-1439
workshop@mosaic-net-intl.ca
The Facilitators
Originally from Kenya, Karen Craggs-Milne is the Director of Gender Equality Incorporated, a Toronto based organization that specializes in building capacity at all levels to achieve equitable outcomes for women, girls, men and boys in all their diversity.
An accomplished gender specialist, Karen has worked on gender issues over the last 10 years in several sectors and regions in Canada and overseas. During this time, she has worked closely with numerous clients to review their own practices and integrate a systematic and comprehensive approach to gender integration in projects, programs, policies and organizations. Her technical expertise lies in gender training, institutional gender audits, gender analysis, gender sensitive monitoring and evaluation as well as gender mainstreaming.
As a gender trainer, Karen is well known for delivering participatory, practical and energizing sessions that leave participants feeling confident, well-equipped and ready for action. Karen also has extensive experience in developing comprehensive training materials and customized tools and frameworks for participants and facilitators.
Karen holds a bilingual BA (Hons) in International Studies from York University, Toronto and an MSc. in Development Management from the London School of Economics, UK.
For more information on Gender Equality Incorporated
please visit: www.genderequality.ca
Special Guest Facilitator, Michael Kaufman, PhD. is an educator, writer, consultant, and trainer focused on innovative approaches to engaging men and boys in the promotion of gender equality. He works for governments, corporations, professional firms, trade unions, universities, and non-governmental organizations. He is the co-founder of the White Ribbon Campaign, the largest effort in the world of men working to end violence against women.
He has worked extensively within the UN system, including UNICEF, UNESCO, UNIFEM, UNDP, UNFPA, IFAD, and UNESCO in New York, Rome, Paris, Beijing, Katmandu, Ankara, Geneva, Nairobi, and Delhi. He has worked with numerous NGOs including OXFAM, International Red Cross, Save the Children, and Amnesty International, as well as with governments on six continents. Dr. Kaufman previously taught at York University in Toronto where he was Deputy Director of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean
Françoise Coupal is founder and partner of Mosaic.net International, Inc a private consulting firm. She is an experienced Senior Level Gender Specialist having worked for CIDA, UNIFEM, Inter-American Development Bank, PAHO and World Food Programme on gender issues. As a programme officer for the UNDP, Françoise was a gender specialist responsible for a portfolio of gender projects in the field of agriculture, micro-enterprise development, cooperatives and good governance. She has undertaken consulting assignments that have helped organizations mainstream gender into their organizations, programme and projects in the field of disaster relief and rehabilitation, good governance, cooperatives, education and health. Françoise has worked in over 25 countries. She is an experienced facilitator in participatory and experiential methods.
Françoise served on the Board of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) and has been an active member of the Women’s Executive Network.
Françoise undertook her studies at UCLA and graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University and Carleton University culminating in a Master of Arts degree in International Development.
For more information on Mosaic.net International, Inc. please visit: www.mosaic-net-intl.ca
Why You Should Attend?
Organizations, programmes and projects are increasingly being asked to develop gender equality policies and strategies that seek to provide women and men with equal opportunities and ensure that their interventions are gender-sensitive or at the very least do not reinforce inequities. The gender training workshop seeks to provide workshop participants with core concepts, gender analytic frameworks and gender strategies that can improve the effectiveness of your organization, programmes and projects in working with vulnerable and marginalized women and men, boys and girls. The workshop will move you beyond the theory to apply in practical and useful ways gender analysis and gender sensitive strategies to your organization and its programmes and projects to achieve greater social justice, development and peace.
The Approach
The Gender Training workshop, a joint collaboration between Gender Equality Incorporated and Mosaic.net International, is based on a hands-on approach to gender equality that can be applied in Canada and overseas. You will move beyond understanding the key concepts underlying gender equality to working with different gender frameworks, applying gender to project design, monitoring and reporting to focus on gender mainstreaming in organizations and programmes. You will also move beyond seeing gender equality as more than women’s participation to develop strategies targeting men and their relationship with women and designing actions that will see their relationship with women change so that both can reach their full potential. Developing interventions based on a solid gender analysis will enable you to design programmes and projects based on differential needs, priorities and issues so that your intervention reinforces positive change for both women and men, boys and girls. You will learn how to undertake a participatory gender audit of your programme and organization and introduce strategies to make your organization more gender-sensitive.
What Results to Expect?
You can expect to enhance your awareness, knowledge and skills in any of the following areas:
Who Will Be There?
The workshop is designed for women and men:
Workshop Agenda
This is an intensive five-day course designed to maximize learning, group interaction, networking and developing practical skills. Sessions begin at 8:30 in the morning and run all day except for registration the first morning.
Day 1: Moving Beyond Concepts and Understanding Key National and International Agreements
Day 2: Special one day workshop with Michael Kaufman on Engaging Men in Gender Equality
Michael Kaufman will facilitate a day long session on Engaging Men to Promote Gender Equality, Transform Gender Relations, and Rethink What it Means to be a Man in the Context of Equality
This interactive day-long session will:
For those interested in attending only this one day workshop, the cost will be CAD $ 395.
Day 3: Applying Gender Analysis Frameworks to the Workplace
Day 4: Integrating gender into programmes and projects
Day 5: Gender Mainstreaming and Gender Audits
How Will This be Achieved?
This is a practical hands on workshop. The format will vary between presentations, individual and group work, case studies drawn from participants to encourage the sharing of knowledge and experiences that can be applied to real life situations.
There will be a field assignment in and around Ottawa that will give you an opportunity to undertake a gender audit.
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