Training in Gender and Health

A registry of training courses that educate the general public, health professionals, development workers or other target audiences about a specific theme in gender or women's health. Course subjects include gender-based and domestic violence, masculinities, men's role in reproductive health, women and communicable disease, integrating gender into development etc.

If you would like to add information to this registry, please download and fill out our online form (word file), and send it to us via e-mail: hdw@paho.org or Fax: (202) 974-3671.

Workshop on Gender, Health and Development: A Facilitator's Guide (PDF Format)

Developed by PAHO's Woman, Health and Development Program, this guide provides a structure and some tools for a workshop on looking at health through a gender lens, understanding men’s and women’s health-illness processes and improving the equity with which roles, responsibilities and rewards are distributed in health promotion and care.

Download the Complete Workshop - PDF 1.41 MB

Or download separate smaller files:

Pages		PDF File
1-24	Introduction, Agenda and Facilitator's Guide	PDF 245kb
25-30	Module 1: Sex and Gender	PDF 49.3kb
31-53	Module 2: Gender Roles, Access to and Control of Resources and Household Stereotypes	PDF 148kb
54-66	Module 3: The Origin of Health Needs	PDF 103kb
68-92	Module 4: Practical and Strategic Gender Approaches	PDF 181kb
94-100	Module 5: Development Approaches	PDF 61.3kb
101-112	Module 6: Applying the Concepts to Case Studies	PDF 85.8kb
113-119	Module 7: Application of Gender Analysis to existing Health Projects	PDF 56.6kb
121-125	Workshop Evaluation	PDF 32.7kb
126-143	Flipcharts	PDF 74.9kb
144-183	Handouts	PDF 292kb
184-201	Overhead Transparencies	PDF 239kb

The listing of courses on this page does not imply the endorsement of the Women, Health and Development Program, nor do the course contents necessarily reflect the opinions of the Program.

On-line Publications

Institution	Course Description	Contact Information
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA

ARGENTINA
Alicia Moreau De Justo Foundation	Social Research on Women Course	Corrientes 1485 1st 'A' 1042 Buenos Aires Tel: 40 5077/40 1805 Centre for the Study of Women Olleros 2554 PB 1426 Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires Association of Psychologists	Gender and Psychoanalysis Program An annual program designed to train psychologists and psychotherapists in the gender perspective, theory and clinical application.	Irene Meler Tel: 4804-4902 Irene Fridman Tel: 4963-9532
Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir	Empoderamiento y de Solidaridad (1er Nivel) Temas: Acuprensión, Sistema de polaridad, Técnica de Co-escucha activa, Visualizaciones. Este Curso se desarrolla en tres niveles correspondientes a los años 2002, 2003 y 2004.Es un proceso acumulativo y se necesita haber participado del primero para poder hacerlo en los siguientes	CDD C.C.176 SUC. 20 (B) 1420- Buenos Aires Tel: 54-011-4300-9808
CECYM Centro de Encuentro Cultura y Mujer	Training Courses CECYM posesses a wide experience in the design and organization of training courses, directed primarily at organizations and individuals working on sexual violence against women. Courses can be requested by governmental or non-governmental associations and services (they are appropriate for groups of about 8 to no more than 20 people).	CECYM Guatemala 4294 Buenos Aires C1425BUD Or fill out the Online Form
FLACSO Argentina	Cátedra Regional UNESCO Mujer, Ciencia y Tecnología La Cátedra Regional UNESCO Mujer, Ciencia y Tecnología en América Latina es una red de instituciones Latinoamericanas cuya meta es la integración de la equidad de Género en la Ciencia y la Tecnología. En este ámbito se articula investigación, formación, advocacy, difusión y sensibilización para lograr que la Ciencia y la Tecnología se enriquezcan con la plena participación de mujeres y varones.	catunesco@flacso.org.ar
Fundacion Pro Universidad de Pinamar	Sexual and Reproductive Health Course (Distance Education Course)	Fundacion Pro Tel: (02254) 48-1179
OAS/Inter-American Commission on Women	Multinational Women's Centre for Research and Training	Av Velez Sarsfield 153, Cordoba Tel: 45750
Proyecto NATAL	Educación a Distancia sobre la Maternidad El programa de estudios, sustentado fuertemente en lo que en psicología se conoce como Psicosomática, recorre todos los temas necesarios para poder coordinar grupos de embarazadas en las dos instancias que propone el Sistema Natal: clases de gimnasia y grupos de reflexión.	NATAL
Programa Regional de Formación en Género y Políticas Públicas (PRIGEPP/FLACSO)	Diploma Superior de Especialización en Género y Políticas Públicas El Comité Directivo de FLACSO aprobó el otorgamiento de este título a los/as egresados/as de PRIGEPP. El mismo tiene validez en todas las sedes de FLACSO en América Latina. Este Diplomado tiene un importante valor dado el prestigio de FLACSO en la Región y su reconocimiento internacional y asimismo por acreditar el Primer Programa de Posgrado en Políticas Públicas y Género que se imparte a distancia por medio de una plataforma virtual.	PRIGEPP Ayacucho 551 CP (1026) Buenos Aires, Argentina Tel.: (5411) 4375-2435 Fax: (5411) 4375-1373
Universidad de Buenos Aires Area de Estudios de Relaciones de Género Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género	Cursos de Grado: Seminarios temáticos específicos para alumnos/as de Carreras de Letras, Artes, Historia, Antropología, Filosofía	Lidia Knecher - AERG Av. Córdoba 2122 Capital Federal Tel: 4374-4448 (ext.6498) Fax: 4370-6153 IIEGE Puán 480 4 of.417 Capital Federal Tel: 4432-0606 Fax: 4432-0121
Universidad Católica de Córdoba Programa Género	Cursos de Grado: Procesos de capacitación destinados a mujeres con la idea de creación o ampliación de una empresa; Métodos de investigación de género; Formulación de políticas municipales dirigidas hacia mujeres; Género y municipio: el género en las administraciones locales; Liderazgo femenino en las organizaciones; Hombres y mujeres en política	Programa Género Obispo Trejo 323 1 Córdoba, Provincia de Córdoba Tel: 0351-4213213/7800 Fax: 0351-4213213/7800
Universidad de Ciencias Empresarialess y Sociales	Programa de Estudios en Género y Subjetividad - Curso Posgrado Mujeres y Varones en un mundo en transición	UCES Paraguay 1401 9° Piso Buenos Aires (54-11) 4813-9702 / 0228 / 4814-5775
Universidad Hebrea Argentina Bar Ilan Area de Género y Subjetividad		AGS Tel: 4863-4061/9 Fax: 4863-0440
Universidad Nacional de Catamarca Programa Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género	Cursos de Postgrado: "Mujer, Estado y economía reciente"; "La mitad invisible de la historia: mujeres y protagonismo social en la Argentina" Cursos de Grado: Capacitación en género a funcionariado universitario; Capacitación en género a docentes y funcionariado educativo del interior provincial; Seminario-Taller: "Género, educación y currículum"; Capacitación a mujeres; Conferencia-Taller: "Qué es el género"; Jornadas en conmemoración del Día Internacional de la Mujer; Paneles; Conferencias; Debate; "Mujeres profesionales"; "Mujer y poder"; "Mujer rural y desarrollo"; "Voces y miradas de niñas catamarqueñas"	PRIDEG Rojas 354 San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca Provincia de Catamarca Telefax: 03833-431200 03833-430833
Universidad Nacional del Comahue Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinario de Género	Especialidad a distancia: "Agentes de igualdad de oportunidades para la mujer"	CEIG Av. Argentina 1400 Neuquén-Provincia de Neuquén Tel: 0299-490388 Fax: 0299-490389
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba	Programa Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Mujer y Género Principales actividades que realiza el Programa: Investigación; Asesoramiento y seguimiento de trabajos de grado y postgrado; Organización y ejecución de tareas de extensión Curso Internacional sobre Administración y Manejo de Programas y Servicios de Salud de las Mujeres Este curso tiene como propósito capacitar y fortalecer el liderazgo en salud con enfoque de género de profesionales gubernamentales de nivel nacional, provincial y/o municipal, académicos y de la sociedad civil de la República Argentina. El curso está dirigido a profesionales varones y mujeres, académicas/os, investigadoras/es, técnicas/os, funcionarias/os, legisladoras/es del país que trabajen en las áreas de Salud, Mujer, Juventud, Educación, Promoción Social o en los Poderes Legislativos y Judiciales, o que manifiesten especial interés en capacitarse en salud con perspectiva de género.	PIEMG Casilla 801 Ciudad Universitaria Córdoba-Provincia de Córdoba Tel: 0351-4334061 int. 34 Fax: 0351-4334196 Alejandra Dominguez SeAP - Tel: (0351) 421-5632 FEIM - Tel: (011)4372-2763
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo Centro Interdisciplinario de estudios regionales	Área "Historia de Mujeres"	CEIDER Centro Universitario Parque Gral. San Martín Casilla 5500 Mendoza - Provincia de Mendoza Tel: 0261-4494093 Fax: 0261-4380457
Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos Proyecto Mujer	Cursos de Grado: Docencia en la formación académica de Trabajo Social.	Proyecto Mujer Rioja 6-Paraná Provincia de Entre Ríos Tel: 0343-4310189 Fax: 0343-4230477
Universidad Nacional de La Matanza Area de Investigaciones sobre la mujer	Cursos de Grado: Seminario sobre la vida cotidiana de las mujeres; Seminario sobre mujer y calidad de vida	AIM Florencio Varela 1903 San Justo Partido de La Matanza Buenos Aires Tel: 4651-3749 Fax: 4651-3749
Universidad Nacional de La Pampa Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de la Mujer	Especialidad a distancia: "Agentes de igualdad de oportunidades para la mujer"	INSMUJER Coronel Gil 353 3 Santa Rosa, La Pampa Tel: 02954-423106 Fax: 02954-433037
Universidad Nacional de Luján Area Interdisciplinaria de Estudios de la Mujer	Cursos de Grado: Seminarios en la Licenciatura en Historia Especialidad a distancia: "Agentes de igualdad de oportunidades para la mujer"	AIEM Rutas 5 y 7 Luján, Buenos Aires Tel: 02323-420380 Fax: 02323-425795
Universidad Nacional de Rosario Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinarios sobre las Mujeres	Maestría: "El poder y la sociedad desde la problemática del género" Cursos de Grado: Seminario General: "Género y familia"-Carrera de Historia-Facultad de Humanidades y Artes-U.N.R; Seminario: "Género y autoritarismo"-Carrera de Trabajo Social-Facultad de Ciencias Políticas-U.N.R.	CEIM Programa Mujer Entre Ríos 758 Rosario Provincia de Santa Fe Tel: 0341-4405294 Fax: 0341-4405294
Universidad Nacional de Salta Comisión de la Mujer	Cursos de Grado: Seminario de Licenciatura "Historia de las mujeres"; Cursos de actualización y perfeccionamiento para docentes de enseñanza terciaria y secundaria. Cursos de Postgrado: Seminario interdisciplinario "Historiografía y género"	Comisión de la Mujer Av. Bolivia 5150 Salta-Provincia de Salta Tel: 0387-4921341 Fax: 0387-4921341
Universidad Nacional de San Juan Programa de Desarrollo de Estudios de la Mujer		PRODEM Cereceto 590, (y Meglioli) 5400-Rivadavia, San Juan Tel: 0264-4230314 Fax: 0264-4230314
Universidad Nacional de Tucumán Centro de Estudios Históricos Interdisciplinarios sobre las mujeres	Cursos de Postgrado: La transformación educativa: enseñar historia: de la teoría a la práctica. Cursos de Grado: Etnología-Historia medieval. Historia de la Argentina II. En ellas se incorpora la temática referida a las mujeres y al género	CEHIM Av. Benjamín Araoz 800 San Miguel de Tucumán Provincia de Tucumán Tel: 0381-4226421 Fax: 0381-4310171
UCES Universidad de Ciencias Empresarialess y Sociales	Gender and Subjectivity Studies Programme - Post-Graduate Course Women and Men in a World in Transition	UCES Paraguay 1401 9° Piso Buenos Aires (54-11) 4813-9702 / 0228 / 4814-5775
AUSTRALIA
Key Centre for Women's Health	Designated as a WHO Collaborating Centre in 1993, the Key Centre is active in collaborative research and short course training in Australia and internationally. Topics include: Gender and Reproductive Health; Gender and Tobacco Control; Health Promotion, Planning and Evaluation; Violence Against Women: Impact, Effects and Responses	Martha Morrow WHO Collaborating Centre University of Melbourne Vic. 3010, Australia Tel. (613) 8344 4333 Fax (613) 9347 9824
BARBADOS
University of the West Indies (Cave Hill Campus) Centre for Gender and Development Studies	The Centre aims to introduce and maintain an integrated, interdisciplinary programme of gender and development studies. All three campuses of the UWI offer a number of undergraduate courses in Gender Studies. The Cave Hill campus also offers a Certificate course in Gender and Development Studies, and a Summer Institute in Gender and Development Studies	Tel. (246) 417-4490/1 Fax: (246) 424-3822 E-mail: gender@uwichill.edu.bb
BELIZE

BOLIVIA
Centro de promoción de la mujer Gregoria Apaza	The Gregoria Apaza Women's Centre runs training programs for women, in community leadership and economic productivity. They also runs training programs for anyone wishing to learn more about domestic violence	Ana Quiroga Av. Juan Pablo II y C. Eulert Nº 215 Zona 16 de Julio Tel: 840351 - 841963 Fax: 840244
Coordinadora de la Mujer	Coordinadora de la Mujer (Women's Co-ordiantion) runs a number of training programs - both for women themselves and for audiences wishing to learn more about gender	fpc@coordinadoramujer.org
Universidad Mayor de San Andrés	Maestría en Estudios de Género Maestría destinada a formar recursos humanos profesionales postgraduales, centrados en el estudio de la configuración histórica de las relaciones de género y las derivaciones que éstas tienen, en los campos de la cultura, la política y la economía contemporáneas, con énfasis en América Latina y Bolivia y en la perspectiva de un proyecto de transformación con equidad.	UMSA/CIDES Casilla 9786 Av. 14 de septiembre 4913 Esquina calle 3 Tel: 591 2 786169 Fax: 591 2 786169
Universidad Mayor de San Simón Centro de Estudios Superiores Universitarios	Master's in Gender and Development. The two-year program looks at different gender-based obstacles to women's development, including such themes as citizenship, policy, methodology, class, ethnicity etc.	cesu@pino.cbb.entelnet.bo P.O. Box 5389 Calama E-0235, 1er piso Cochabamba-Bolivia Tel. (591-4) 220317/252951 Fax (591-4) 254625
Universidad Núr	Diplomado en Educación Preventiva Curso a distancia que tiene como objetivo formar profesionales competentes en elaborar políticas de prevención de los flagelos sociales con un nuevo enfoque de las competencias transversales de la Reforma Educativa. Incluye secciones sobre Género, Sociedad y Educación, y Educación Sexual, Salud Reproductiva y Calidad de Vida.	Federación de Profesionales de Santa Cruz Tel. 342 1942 Asociación Departamental de Colegios Privados Tel. 334 5478 Colegio Británico Santa Cruz Tel. 342 5858
BRAZIL
Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung	FES Brazil offers a number of training courses on Women and the Digital Divide and Women and Information. The site itself is in Portuguese. Read about FES in English here	genero@abdl.org.br
Fundação Carlos Chagas	Programa de Dotações para Pesquisa sobre Mulheres e Relações de Gênero A originalidade desse programa, em relação aos das demais agências de fomento a pesquisa, reside sobretudo no seu papel educacional, na medida em que tem por objetivo a formação de pesquisadores/as e prevê o acompanhamento sistemático das diferentes etapas das pesquisas financiadas, mediante seminários e publicação de uma coletânea de textos ao final de cada concurso.	FCC Av. Francisco Morato,1565 Jd. Guedala São Paulo SP Brasil Tel: (0xx11) 3721-4511 Fax: (0xx11) 3721-1059
Instituto PROMUNDO	Proyecto H Uno de los objetivos principales del Proyecto H es promover la salud sexual y reproductiva de las adolescentes latinoamericanas a través de los adolescentes varones, ya que los estudios realizados con los y las adolescentes demuestran que suelen ser los jóvenes varones los que deciden y controlan cómo y cuándo tienen relaciones sexuales las adolescentes.	PROMUNDO Rua Francisco Serrador 2/702 Centro CEP 20031-060 Rio de Janeiro Tel: 55 21 2544-3114 Fax: 55 21 2220 3511
FLACSO Brazil Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales	Estudos de Gênero A FLACSO/Sede Acadêmica Brasil realizou diverso tipo de atividades de docência, pesquisa e cooperação científica na área dos estudos de gênero (inicialmente denominados estudos da mulher), vinculadas à análise e instrumentação da participação igualitária das mulheres na política, na economia, na sociedade, na cultura.
Pontificia Universidade Católica	Women's Studies Program	Rua Marques de Sao Vicente 225 Gavea, Rio de Janiero 22453 Tel: 529 9288
Pontificia Universidade Católica de Sao Paulo	Núcleo de Estudos da Mulher O Núcleo de Estudos da Mulher – NEM – atua como centro de pesquisa, discussão e estudos sobre a mulher e sua participação na sociedade. Apóia grupos femininos, organiza publicações, promove seminários.
Universidade de Brasília	Women's Studies Courses UnB offers a variety of women's studies courses including: Antropologia do genero; Identidade de genero; Representacoes e imagens: Sexo e genero na historia.	UnB
Universidad Estadual de Campinas Gender Studies Department	PAGU functions as an academic space for interdisciplinary discussion and study (website in Portugese only)	PAGU IFCH - UNICAMP Caixa Postal 6110 Barão Geraldo, Campinas São Paulo Brasil 13081-970 Tel: (19) 3788 7873 Fax: (19) 3788 1703
Universidade Federale da Bahia	Núcleo de Estudos Interdisciplinares sobre a Mulher Objetivos: Estimular a realização de estudos e pesquisas interdisciplinares sobre a questão da mulher e relações de gênero; Desenvolver ensino sobre o tema através da promoção de cursos, seminários e debates. Fornecer subsídios para a formulação de políticas públicas que visem a eqüidade de gênero. Desenvolver atividades de extensão e assessorias, contribuindo para o encaminhamento prático de soluções de problemáticas ligadas à mulher.	NEIM Estrada de São Lázaro, 197 Federação CEP 40.210-730 Salvador-BA Tel/Fax: 237-8239
Universidade Federale de Feira de Santana	Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos da Mulher – MULIERIBUS
Universidad Federal Fluminense	Núcleo Tansdisciplinar de Estudos de Genero O objetivo básico que rege o Nuteg é o da organização da produção acadêmica da universidade acerca da temática da mulher e das relações de gênero, incluindo a congregação de grupos de trabalho e pesquisas, a articulação de projetos , a promoção de conferências e seminários e o patrocínio de publicações relativas às questões de gênero.	NUTEG Centro de Estudos Sociais Aplicados Campus do Gragoatá s/n Bloco C Sala Gragoatá, Niteroi, RJ CEP: 24210350
Universidade Federale de Minas Gerais	Núcleo de Estudos Mulher e Saúde O NEMS, desde suas origens, esteve associado aos movimentos de mulheres e movimentos feministas, em particular na saúde. E suas propostas abraçam a idéia de reagrupar os estudos das mulheres e da saúde (nessa sequência) por compreender que o tema estudos da condição das mulheres, da condição feminina, estudos da mulher e hoje em dia, estudos de gênero, são marcos teóricos conceituais de maior abrangência, que os estudos em Saúde e Medicina.	NEMS Av. Alfredo Balena, 190 Dep. de Medicina Preventiva e Social Faculdade de Medicina da UFMG CEP 30130-100 Belo Horizonte, MG Tel: (031) 239 7460
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos da Mulher na Literatura Objetivos do NIELM: Apoiar, promover, dinamizar estudos sobre "A mulher na literatura", focalizados a partir da interdisciplinaridade, estudos de gênero e revisão do cânone; Facilitar contatos entre pesquisadores, departamentos, e instituições nacionais e estrangeiras; criar um banco de dados informativo.	NIELM Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Cidade Universitária Faculdade de Letras Bloco D - sala 217 CEP: 21.941-590 Rio de Janeiro Tel: (021) 562-2010 Fax: (021) 270-1696
Universidade de Sao Paulo	Núcleo de Estudos da Mulher e Relacoes Sociais de Genero Objetivos: Estudar a problemática da condição feminina, com ênfase na realidade brasileira; Intervir nas políticas públicas propiciando assessoria aos poderes públicos para coibir a violência contra a mulher e implantar igualdade de oportunidades para a mulher; Propiciar a docentes, pesquisadores e estudantes a oportunidade de realizar investigações sobre relações sociais de gênero	NEMGE Prédio da Antiga Reitoria Cidade Universitaria USP CEP 05508-900 Sao Paulo Tel: (011) 3818-4210 Fax: (011) 3818 4308
CANADA
CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency)	Gender Equality Online Course The Gender Equality Division has updated the content and modified the structure of the gender-training course on CD-ROM to make it compatible with Internet tools. Follow the online instructions for downloading the course.	CIDA 200 Promenade du Portage Hull, Quebec K1A 0G4 Tel: (819) 997-5006 Fax: (819) 953-6088
George Brown College	The Assaulted Women and Children's Counsellor/Advocate Program This program provides students with a feminist analysis of the political and counselling issues related to violence against women and children. It trains students to be agents for change in their work of community education, political action, and law reform. It prepares students to provide counselling and advocacy for women and children who have experienced or are experiencing violence. A major portion of the program is the field-work component.	Faculty of Community Services & Health Sciences Tel: (416) 415-2310
Government of Canada Canadian Panel on Violence against Women	The Community Kit The Community Kit is a how-to guide for communities that want to implement the National Action Plan at the community level. Part One helps communities plan ways to gather information on violence against women, develop a profile of available services and determine if women are safe in the community. Part Two helps identify what steps a community needs to take to end violence against women. References included. Community Stories: Taking Action on Violence Against Women Details how 10 communities used the Community Kit. Contains practical tips for community leaders who want to take action on violence against women. Includes figures and references.	Canadian Government Publishing Online order form Tel: 1-800-635-7943 Tel: (819) 956-4800 Communication Canada Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0S9
Men for Change	Healthy Relationships Curriculum This curriculum is an attempt to address the underlying issues that contribute to violent behaviour. Once students begin to explore these issues, they will be better equipped to free themselves from the deeply ingrained attitudes and beliefs that foster and justify anti-social actions.	Men for Change Men For Change Quinpool PO 33005 Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada B3L 4T6 Tel: (902) 457-4351 Fax: (902) 457-4597
Acadia University Women's Studies Program	The Women’s Studies Program at Acadia University emphasizes the importance of gender as a category of analysis in scholarly activity, social relations, cultural expression, and political systems. Students are encouraged to examine established theoretical frameworks as well as feminist alternatives, and to critically evaluate assumptions about the institutions, ideologies, history, human nature, science, language and culture.	Dr. Leigh Whaley Women’s Studies Director
University of Alberta Women's Studies Program	The Women's Studies Program at the University of Alberta offers courses in the Program itself, and students are also able to take courses outside the program towards a degree in Women's Studies.	Women's Studies Program 13-15 Tory Building University of Alberta Edmonton, AB T6G 2H4 Tel: (780) 492-7078 Fax: 780.492.5273
Athabasca University Women's Studies Program	The B.A. Major and the Concentration in Women's Studies at Athabasca University combine core and elective courses. Core courses include: an introduction to women's studies, history of women, feminism in the western tradition, feminist research methods, and contemporary feminist thought.	cathyc@athabascau.ca or arlene@athabascau.ca
University of British Columbia Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Relations	The Women's Studies programme at U.B.C. strives to offer courses in an open and mutually supportive atmosphere. Topics offered include: Feminist Legal Studies; Women's Health Issues; Body, Gender and Society.	Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Relations 1896 East Mall Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 1Z1 Tel: (604) 822-9173 Fax: (604) 822-9169
University of Calgary Women's Studies Program	The Women's Studies Program is designed to provide students with knowledge of the rapidly developing disciplinary and interdisciplinary literature in the field, while providing them with an understanding of the reasons for the development of a feminist scholarship.	Faculty of Communication and Culture University of Calgary 2500 University Drive N.W Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4
Carleton University Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's Studies Ontario	The Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's Studies is intended to foster research and study from a feminist perspective and to promote an awareness on the part of all disciplines of the need to include a fuller treatment of women's experience. The Institute offers a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and a Combined Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree programs in Women's Studies.	Lalita Figueredo Room 1419 Dunton Tower Tel: (613) 520-6645
Concordia University Simone de Beauvior Institute	The various courses at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute include empirical and theoretical approaches, always stressing the connections between academic study and women's realities. They focus on those realities across the boundaries of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, and nation.	Lillian Robinson Simone de Beauvoir Institute Concordia University 1455 boul. de Maisonneuve Montreal, (Quebec) H3G 1M8 Tel: (514) 848-2372
Dalhousie University Women's Studies Program Nova Scotia	At Dalhousie, students can currently enter the following programmes in Women's Studies: a Major, an Advanced Major, or an Advanced Double Major, and a Combined Honours programme. These programmes include classes in the disciplines of English, French, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology and Social Anthropology and Theatre, and in interdisciplinary and professional fields, including International Development, Law, Nursing, and Social Work.	Fill out the on-line Information Request form Tel: (902) 494-2980 Fax: (902) 494-2105
IDRC International Development Research Centre	GSD Research Funding IDRC's Gender and Sustainable Development Unit funds research and projects relating to gender and women's development issues. Submit a Research Proposal	IDRC
University of Manitoba Women's Studies Program	The Women’s Studies program offers both major and minor programs. Students who major in Women’s Studies graduate with a Bachelor of Arts. Students who wish to make Women’s Studies their major area of concentration may elect the following: a major, an advanced major, and an Honours program.	Janice Ristock Women's Studies Program 330 Fletcher Argue Building Tel: (204) 474-9108
McGill University Centre for Research and Teaching on Women Montreal	The McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women was created to promote research and teaching in the field of women's studies. The Centre organizes workshops, seminars and conferences; provides information and resources; and coordinates the undergraduate minor and major Women's Studies programs.	MCRTW 3487 Peel Street Second Floor Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W7 Tel.: (514) 398-3911 Fax: (514) 398-3986
McMaster University Women's Studies Program	Women's Studies at McMaster is an interdisciplinary programme. Questions are asked such as: what difference would sexual equality make to society? Do women write, read, and think differently from men? How does child-bearing affect women's social position? How have men's ideas about women developed and spread?	Fill out the on-line Information Request form Women's Studies Program Togo Salmon Hall, 726 1280 Main Street West Hamilton Ontario, L8S 4L9 Tel: 905-525-9140 Fax: 905-577-6930
Memorial University (of Newfoundland) Women's Studies Program	The Women's Studies Program at Memorial University offers students the opportunity to explore the roles and contributions of women in past and contemporary societies. Women's Studies addresses not only the need for a fuller understanding of women in society but also for new criteria and methods of assessing the status of women.	Joan Butler Women's Studies Program Science Building, SN 4082 Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, NF A1C 5S7 Tel: (709) 737-3322 Fax: (709) 737-2067
University of New Brunswick Women's Studies Program	Women's Studies represents a new approach to knowledge; it examines the gender-based aspects of human experience and women's roles in society. Women's Studies includes a wide variety of academic disciplines and professions.	Carmen Poulin University of New Brunswick Box 4400, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3 Tel:(506) 458-7800
University of Ottawa Institute of Women's Studies	Recognized throughout Canada and abroad, the Institute offers innovative undergraduate and graduate programs and welcomes an array of conferences and seminars every year.	Institute of Women's Studies 143 Seraphin-Marion P.O. Box 450, Stn A Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5 Tel: 562-5791 Fax: 562-5994
University of Prince Edward Island Women's Studies Program	The Women's Studies Program at the University of Prince Edward Island is an interdisciplinary, university-wide program committed to examining and integrating knowledges about women's multiple and varied experiences, accomplishments, and thinking throughout the university curricula.	Ann Braithwaite University of Prince Edward Island 550 University Avenue Charlottetown, P.E.I. C1A 4P3 Tel: (902) 628-4312
Queen's University Institute of Women's Studies	The Women's Studies Program encourages the incorporation of the specificities of race, class, sexual orientation and accessibility/ability, as well as gender, into feminist teaching and scholarship.	Institute of Women's Studies Room D504 Mackintosh-Corry Hall Queen's University Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 Tel: (613) 533-6318 Fax: (613) 533-2824
University of Regina Women's Studies Program	Women's studies, an interdisciplinary subject area, enables students to pursue studies focusing on women's issues. Women's studies courses complement course requirements in most disciplines by emphasizing women's roles and contributions to society.	Kanthie Seresinhe Tel: (306) 585-4972 Fax (306) 585-4827
University of Saskatchewan Department of Women's and Gender Studies	Women's and Gender Studies offers a B.A. Three-year major program, a B.A. Four-year major program, and an 18 credit unit minor program.	WGST 1024 Arts Building, 9 Campus Drive University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5A5 Tel: (306) 966-4327 Fax: (306) 966-4559
Simon Fraser University Women's Studies Program	A central purpose of SFU's Women's Studies Department is to undertake a comprehensive exploration of women's experiences and achievements, and to develop new criteria and methods for the appraisal of women's status. An integrated sequence of broadly interdisciplinary courses helps students achieve a better understanding of the role of women, and suggests ways of improving the situation of women.	Dept. of Women's Studies Simon Fraser University 8888 University Dr. Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6 Tel: (604) 291-3333 Fax: (604) 291-5518
University of Toronto Faculty of Law	Graduate Scholarship in Reproductive Health Law Graduate Scholarship in Women's Rights The scholarships are designed to permit law graduates from developing countries who have an interest in human rights and women's health in their own countries to undertake advanced research and study in this emerging field of law	Faculty of Law 170 Research Lane, Guelph, ON N1G 5E2, Canada Tel: (1-519) 823-1940 Fax: (1-519) 823-5232
University of Toronto Institute of Women's and Gender Studies	The Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Studies serves as an institutional base for research, teaching, intellectual exchange and collaboration in feminist and gender studies.	IWSGS University of Toronto 40 Willcocks Street Room 2036 Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C6 Tel: (416) 978-3668 Fax: (416) 946-5561
University of Victoria Women's Studies Program	The interdisciplinary Women's Studies curriculum is designed to introduce students to a diversity of perspectives on women's histories, struggles and thought. Women's Studies builds on traditional and evolving knowledge to integrate the many forms of feminist scholarship and activism.	Women's Studies Dept. University of Victoria PO Box 3045 Stn CSC Victoria BC V8W 3P4 Tel.: (250) 721-7378 Fax: (250) 721-7210
University of Winnipeg Women's Studies Program	The Women's Studies program brings the perspective of women to the University. It fosters an awareness of and an appreciation for the realities and diverse experiences of women. It also develops a critical consciousness of the social inequalities affecting women, including those based on gender, age, race, class, disability and sexual orientation.	Fill out the on-line Information Request form
York University School of Women's Studies	By studying women in a multiplicity of settings, divergences of race, class and sexual orientation are highlighted. Students are encouraged to join in the transformative process of feminist scholarship aimed at recapturing, recreating, and revaluing women's knowledge. Women's Studies is both a complement and a corrective to established fields at York and a new academic discipline of its own.	School of Women's Studies Keele Campus S711 Ross Building 4700 Keele Street Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 Tel: (416) 650-8144 Fax: (416) 650-3900
White Ribbon Campaign	Education and Action Kit The Education & Action Kit is designed to introduce students and teachers to a range of issues that surround the problem of violence against women, and to help them feel that there are many things that they can do to take action on this issue. It has been developed from two previously produced educational kits that received tremendous response. This new combined version is updated and includes many significant improvements	The White Ribbon Campaign 365 Bloor St. East - Suite 203 Toronto, Ontario Canada M4W 3L4 Phone: (416) 920-6684 1-800-328-2228 Fax: (416) 920-1678
CHILE
CEPAL Unidad Mujer y Desarrollo UNIFEM	Articulación entre economía y género para la formulación de políticas públicas (26/8/2002 al 30/8/2002)	rbottinelli@eclac.cl Tel: (56-2)2102565 Fax: (56-2)2285184
Proyecto FODEPAL Oficina Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe	Análisis socioeconómico y de género La finalidad del Curso es fortalecer las capacidades locales, nacionales y regionales para promover políticas de desarrollo rural con una perspectiva de Género. La idea principal es promover un modelo centrado en el desarrollo humano y sostenible para las actividades de desarrollo rural con perspectiva de Género.	Proyecto FODEPAL Av. Dag Hammarskjöld 3241 Vitacura Santiago de Chile Tel:(562)337-2158 Fax:(562)337-2242
Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung	FES Chile recently ran a workshop on Women and Human Rights. FES also run a number of training courses on aspects of gender and social and economic development. The site is in Spanish. Read about FES in English here	FES Chile Darío Urzúa 1763 providencia, Santiago, Chile Tel.: 562 / 341 40 40 Fax: 562 / 223 24 74
Instituto de la Mujer	Diplomado de Género El programa tiene como propósito ofrecer un espacio de reflexión que incorpore la categoría de género al análisis crítico de fenómenos sociales y culturales. Además, se propone constituir esta catyegoría en una herramienta conceptual y metodológica para enfrentar situaciones derivadas de los diversos quehaceres profesionales.	INSMUJER Viña del Mar 019 Providencia Santiago Tel: (56-2) 222 4946 Fax: (56-2) 635 3106 O llena el formulario electrónico
Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network (LACWHN) Itinerant University	International Course "Gender Perspectives in Health" This educational project focuses on the issue of "Gender, Globalization and Health Reform." Under this broad scope, several key topics provide a profound understanding of gender inequities and inequalities in health. These issues include: sexuality, the body, and sexual and reproductive rights; gender, work and the environment; bioethics and gender; quality of care in women's health; violence against women; and older women's health.	RSMLAC Tel.: (56-2) 223-0060 Fax.: (56-2) 223-1066
CEM Centre for Women's Studies	Program in Gender and Society Studies Together with other leading Chilean social research organizations, CEM offers a professional certificate program in Gender and Society Studies. Participants in this program critically analyze social and cultural phenomena from a gender perspective and learn to apply this conceptual and methodological tool in dealing with situations that arise in different professions. Research and outreach activities at CEM focus on three major areas: labor, political participation, and public policy.	CEM Purísima 353 - santiago chile Tel: 7771194 Fax 7351230
FLACSO Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences	Gender Studies Program	agenero@flacso.cl
Universidad de Chile	Distance Diploma in "Gender, Development and Planning" The objective of the diploma is to teach the theoretical and methodological tools for the understanding of gender and its application to the analysis of and intervention in reality, grounded in a Latin American and Chilean context. Master in "Gender and Culture" This academic program is an inter-faculty Master's degree from the faculties of Social Science, Philosophy and Humanities.	Sonia Montecino Facultad Ciencias Sociales Ignacio Carrera Pinto #1045 Ñuñoa Tel: 6787845 o 6787707 Fax: 6787829
Universidad de Chile Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género	Diplomado a Distancia en Género y Desarrollo (con especialización en los temas de Etnicidad y Planificación). El Diploma tiene por objetivo entregar herramientas teóricas y metodológicas para la comprensión del concepto de género (en sus distintos enfoques) y su aplicación en el análisis e intervención de la realidad social de América Latina.	Facultad de Ciencias Sociales Universidad de Chile Ignacio Carrera Pinto 1045 Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile Tel: 6787707-6787845-6787843 Fax: 6787829
Universidad de Chile	Diploma en Salud Integral de la Mujer, el Niño y el Adolescente en la Sociedad Actual Se pretende que al final del Diploma los participantes estén capacitados para: Reconocer y utilizar la información sobre la situación socioeconómica y las inequidades en la situación de salud; Analizar la situación de la estructura y funcionamiento familiar sobre salud de los diferentes miembros que la constituyen; Analizar los avances en el conocimiento de la salud sexual y reproductiva y los compromisos internacionales contraídos por el país.	Secretaría de Extensión Escuela de Salud Pública Tel: 678 65 36 Fax 737 96 05
Universidad de Concepcion School Postgraduate Studies	Diploma in Women's Studies. A diploma program that looks at women and gender studies, socialization, women and work and other social aspects of women's status.	Felícitas Valenzuela Bousquet Dirección de Estudios Multidisciplinarios de la Mujer (DIEMM)
Universidad de la Frontera Centre for Reproductive Biotechnology	The centre studies the latest advances in reproductive technology including: Fertility treatments; In-vitro fertilization; Contraception; Nutrition and Immunology.	cebior@ufro.cl
Diego Portales University	Gender Perspective in the Judicial and Social Sciences (School of Law). The objective of this diploma program is to create an understanding of gender as an approach which transcends all the social sciences and endows the student with categories of analysis of the origin, foundation and mechanisms of elimination of the sexism which pervades society and culture. Download the Course Brochure (PDF File - in Spanish)	Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales Universidad Diego Portales República 105 Santiago-Chile Tel: 562-676-2614 (o 676-2601)Fax: 676-2602
Universidad Austral de Chile	The University of Southern Chile offers a series of workshops on different issue under the Women, Health and Development theme.	Organizing Committee II Jornadas Australes Interdisciplinarias Mujer y Desarrollo Instituto de Enfermería Materna Facultad de Medicina Casilla 567 - Valdivia Tel: (56) 63 221423 Fax: (56) 63 214475
COLOMBIA
Profamilia	Women's Human Rights "Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Action" This is a training program for lawyers who want to get involved in women's human rights. November 12-16, 2001, Bogotá	Programa de Cooperación Sur-Sur Calle 34 N° 14-52 Bogotá, Colombia Tel: (571) 339-0948 / 339-0900 Fax: (571) 339-0946/287 5530
Escuela de Estudios de Género Universidad Nacional de Colombia	La escuela de estuidos de género ofrece un variedad de opciones, incluyendo la maestría en estudios de género y promoción, la especialización en proyectos de desarrollo con perspectiva de género, cursos electivos pregrado y postgrado, y cursos de contexto estudios de género pregrado y postgrado	Escuela de estudios de género Carrera 50 No 27-70 Unidad Camilo Torres Bloque B5-6 Tel: 3165219 Telefax: 3165238
COSTA RICA
The Gender and Peace Programme University for Peace	International course on Gender and Peace Building This course is specifically aimed at staff members of UN Agencies. Downloadable flyer (PDF) Master of Arts Degree in Gender and Peace Building The Master of Arts in Gender and Peace Building is a three-semester programme that has been designed to support women and men who participate in social, economic and political processes of change and who are interested in key issues of gender and peace building. In addition, the degree responds to the demands and challenges faced by students continuing their education and by mid-career professionals working in government, multi-lateral or bi-lateral institutions, non-governmental organizations and private enterprises.	University for Peace Apdo. 138-6100 Ciudad Colón. Costa Rica Tel: (506) 205-9000 Fax: (506) 249-1929/249-2971
ILANUD	Regional Training Program Against Domestic Violence (United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of the Delinquent). ILANUD has developed a manual for training police in Latin America on handling incidents involving domestic violence. They also offer a number of training workshops on different aspects of domestic violence.	ILANUD Regional Training Program Against Domestic Violence Apartado Postal 10071-1000 San José, Costa Rica Tel: (506) 257-5826 Fax: (506) 233-7175
Inter-American Institute of Human Rights	Interdisciplinary Course in Human Rights Subthemes of the course include: citizen participation; the defense of human rights; impunity; women, gender and development; education and values; international human rights mechanisms; the Interamerican System for Human Rights; the International Criminal Court; and the consolidation of a culture of peace.	IIDH Apdo. 10.081 - 1000 San Jose, Costa Rica Tel: (506) 234-0404 Fax: (506) 234-0955
Instituto Monteverde	Gender / Women's Studies Program	Apartado 69-5655 Monteverde de Puntarenas Costa Rica
CEMUCA Centre for Rural Women's Studies	The Oral-History Program Participants collect the histories of women's lives to document their contribution to the survival and development of the region, taking into account agricultural, technological, political, economic, social, cultural, and psychological dimensions. Community-Service Projects By documenting primarily women's but not excluding men's life experiences, participants will support CEMUCA's planned service projects for the region's communities, which will follow the same phases of preparation, research, and write-up or execution as the oral-history program itself.	CEMUCA Apartado 79-5655 Santa Elena de Monteverde Puntarenas, Costa Rica
Instituto Monteverde	Gender/Women's Studies Program	Apartado 69-5655 Moteverde de Puntarenas Costa Rica
University of Costa Rica	Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Program (PRIEG), Faculty of Social Sciences	P.O. Box 2060, San Jose, Costa Rica Tel: (506) 207-4019
Universidad Nacional Women's Studies Institute	Master's Degree in Women's Studies	cferro@una.ac.cr
CUBA
University of Havana	Women's Studies Program	Catedra de la Mujer San Rafeal No. 1168 Esquina Mazon Ciudad Habana
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Centro de Investigacion para la Action Femenina (CIPAF)		Benigno Filomena Rojas no. 307 Apartado 1744 Santo Domingo
INSTRAW (UN) International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women	Manual for the Training of Personnel Who Receive Victims of Gender-Based Violence http://www.reliefweb.int/training/ti139.html This manual will be prepared for the training of personnel who receive and/or hold in temporary custody victims of gender-based violence, including trafficking, with a view to preventing the exacerbation of post-traumatic stress suffered by such victims.	INSTRAW Calle Cesar Nicolas Penson 102 Apartado Postal 21747 Santo Domingo. Tel: (809) 685-2111 Fax: (809) 685-2117
INSTRAW	Virtual Seminar Series on Gender and ICTs The Virtual Seminars are meant to be forums for exchange of research based knowledge and information through discussions and background materials. They aim at highlighting good practices and lessons learned, identification of research and policy gaps, and outlining policy options and recommendations. The Virtual Seminars will result in Synthesis Paper, plus weekly summaries of discussions.	tsikoska@un-instraw.org
ECUADOR
CEDEAL Centro Ecuatoriano de Desarrollo y Estudios Alternativos	CEDEAL offers a variety of training courses, directed in particular towards women leaders, on such themes as: rights and citizenship; gender identity; human rights (including reproductive rights); constitutional rights; citizen participation and alternative leadership.	CEDEAL
Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung	Course on Gender in Journalism The Media Project for Latin America has developed a course on Gender in Journalism. This course aimed at journalists and social communicators is currently being held in Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Uruguay. The course concept is to integrate a gender perspective into journalistic work in order to ensure balanced coverage. Read about FES in English here	promefes@uio.satnet.net
SENDAS Servicios para un Desarrollo Alternativo del Sur	SENDAS brinda asesoría técnica e imparte capacitación en las áreas de planificación estratégica y operativa, de género, violencia intrafamiliar, desarrollo rural, desarrollo organizacional, información y comunicación, y salud reproductiva.	SENDAS Casilla Postal: 01051926 Calle Guayas 6-130 Cuenca Tel: 593-07-882456 Fax: 593-07-882456
UNIFEM Andean Region	Working with local NGOs in the Andean region, UNIFEM-RA offers training workshops on a variety of themes: violence against women, economi and social rights, gender, application of the law, women's human rights (particularly rural and indigenous women), and leadership.	UNIFEM-RA
EL SALVADOR

FINLAND
Christina Institute for Women's Studies Helsinki Summer School	Gendering Globalisation The aim of the course is to introduce students to the different ways in which gender and globalisation are connected. The emphasis is on the gendered effects of globalisation in a local, Northern European context.	Lilli Hurnonen Helsinki Summer School P.O. Box 4 FIN-00014 University of Helsinki Tel: 358- 9191-23661 Fax: 358-9191-22291
Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Navigating Gender: A Framework and a Tool for Participatory Development This manual has been written to help the reader apply the often theoretical understanding of gender issues in practical work. It includes key concepts and definitions, as well as introductions to alternative gender analysis frameworks. Navigating Gender can be used both as an individual study guide, or as a basis for discussion in groups.	Available for download free of charge
GERMANY
Technical University of Berlin Heinrich Böll Stiftung Summer School	Engendering Economic Policy in a Globalizing World: Liberalization, Services and Care Economies The aims of the Summer School are: the development of new gender approaches to macroeconomic policy-making; to organize a network of researchers, politicians, NGO experts who are interested in an ongoing exchange and cooperation in the field of economic policies from a gender perspective; to develop new critical political strategies and impact assessments of the liberalization and privatization processes of services and public goods; to promote capacity building in different regions of the world on the issue of macroeconomic policies and gender.	Summer School Tel: 0049–30–28534-302 Fax: 0049–30-28534-308
GUATEMALA
CEDPA Centre for Development and Population Activities	Central America Initiative. Cedpa offers a number of training courses in the Central American region, including such themes as: Leadership Development; Women's Rights and Advocacy; Institutional Strengthening; Capacity Building; Reproductive Health; Non formal Education; Economic Security; Youth Development.	Sarah Sánchez CEDPA Guatemala 2ª Avenida 9-42 interior #4 Zona 9, Ciudad de Guatemala Tel: 502-360-7252 Fax: 502-331-3482 or Patricia Ahern Regional Director, Latin America
GUYANA
Help and Shelter	Help and Shelter offers training courses to police and other officials on the use of violence and practices of violence in the home and society	Help and Shelter Ministry of Labour Annex Bottom Flat, Homestretch Avenue Durban Park, Georgetown Telephone 592-2254731, 2273454, 231-7249 Fax : 592-22- 78353
University of Guyana	Women's Studies Program	Faculty of Social Sciences PO Box 10 11 10, Georgetown Tel: 63691
HAITI

HONG KONG
The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Gender Studies Programme MA in Women's Studies, MPhil in Gender Studies, PhD in Gender Studies. Offers a range of programmes for students with different needs and interests.	CUHK Tel: (852) 2609 7679 Fax & Voice message: (852) 2603 7223
HONDURAS

INDIA
Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA) Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues (TARSHI)	The Sexuality and Rights Institute: Exploring Theory and Practice The SRI is an annual two week long residential course that focuses on a conceptual study of sexuality. It examines the interface between sexuality and rights and its links with the related fields of gender and health.	The Sexuality and Rights Institute Tel: 91-11-4610711 Fax: 91-11-465 4210
DAWN Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era	Feminist Advocacy Training Programme The DAWN Training Institute will be an annual event, designed for young feminist activists (aged over 25) from the economic South who are already engaged, or have a strong interest, in global advocacy work for gender justice, and who wish to sharpen their analytical capabilities and advocacy skills.	DAWN PO Box 13124 Suva, Fiji Tel: (679) 314 770
IRELAND
Groundworkers	Education, Health and HIV/ AIDS, Gender and Microfinance	Groundworkers
JAMAICA
University of the West Indies Centre for Gender and Development Studies (Mona campus)	The Centre aims to introduce and maintain an integrated, interdisciplinary programme of gender and development studies. All three campuses of the UWI offer a number of undergraduate courses in Gender Studies	cgdsmona@uwimona.edu.jm
KENYA
FEMNET The African Women's Development and Communication Network	The Gender-Responsive Planning Project The network has created a strong team of 30 trainers since 1990 with a view to replicating the training in the rest of the African Region. This activity has now been expanded to include programme reviews and gender mainstreaming and extends to more countries in Africa.	FEMNET P O Box 54562, Nairobi, Kenya Tel: +254 2 741301/20 Fax: +254 2 742927
HelpAge International	Ageing in Africa Topics covered inthis course include: Demographic situation and socio-economic implications for Africa; HIV/AIDS and its impact on older people; Gender dimensions of ageing; Poverty; Research and Policies on ageing.	HelpAge International
LATVIA
Institute of European Integration Riga Stradins University	Summer School on Gender and Politics The purpose of the School is to offer a variety of courses and teaching approaches that would broaden the participants' perspective on the political aspects of gender (mostly in the social and historical context) and the gender aspect of politics, as well as to suggest new ways of teaching Political Science, History and possibly other subjects from the Gender Studies perspective. The main emphasis is on an interdisciplinary approach.	Summer School Institute of European Integration Riga Stradins University Dzirciema 16 Riga, LV-1007 Latvia Telephone/Fax: 371-740-9161
MALAYSIA
Asian and Pacific Development Centre	Gender and Development Training and Action Programmes The GAD Programme is following up on recommendations to have regular regional meetings of gender trainers and to offer specialised gender training and regular gender training courses in the Asia-Pacific region for policy-makers, researchers and NGOs.	GAD Programme Asian and Pacific Development Centre P.O.Box 12224 Pesiaran Duta 50770 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Tel: (603) 6519 209
MAURITIUS
Mauritius Institute of Health	Regional Training of Trainers Project for Reproductive Health The Mauritius Institute of Health is offering this multi-disciplinary course for faculty members, directors of training programmes, tutors and a variety of health professionals (in English and French) Download the application form	MIH Tel: (230) 243-4268 Fax: (230) 243-4014
MEXICO
CORIAC (Collective of Men for Egalitarian Relations)	Organizes a number of workshops and seminars for men and women about masculinity, paternity, violence, gender and power in relationships	CORIAC Diego Arenas Guzmán 189 Col. Iztaccihuatl C.P. 03520, México D.F. Telfax: 56 96 34 98
INEGI	Taller Internacional de Estadísticas de Género El objetivo es de proporcionar a los participantes las herramientas necesarias para incorporar en las diversas fuentes de información estadística: censos, encuestas y registros administrativos la perspectiva de género, cuidando que ésta se inserte cabalmente en todo el proceso de generación de información, desde la delimitación del marco conceptual hasta la divulgación de los resultados.	Centro de Capacitación Av. Prolongación Héroe de Nacozari Sur No. 2301 Fracc. Jardines del Parque C.P.20270 Aguascalientes Ags. México Tel.: 52 (449) 910-54-64 Fax: 52 (449) 918-12-80 galcolea@cap.inegi.gob.mx
Colegio de la Frontera Sur	Género, Salud Reproductiva y Políticas de Población GSRPP es un proyecto colaborativo de investigación y enlace internacional. El proyecto busca la generación de conocimientos innovativos con respecto a las necesidades de las mujeres para los servicios y tecnologías de la salud reproductiva, y la promoción de tecnologías reproductivas que protegen la salud de las mujeres y sostienen sus derechos.
Colegio de la Frontera Sur	Curso-Seminario: Género y Desarrollo Parte de la Maestría en Ciencias: Recursos Naturales y Desarrollo Rural, el curso se propone analizar la situación de las mujeres y de las relaciones de género presentes en diversos aspectos del campo del desarrollo, así como dotar de herramientas teóricas y metodológicas básicas a las y los estudiantes con el objetivo de que éstos puedan incorporar esta dimensión de análisis en su ámbito profesional particular y en su formación académica de posgrado.	Dra. Esperanza Tuñón
Colegio de la Frontera Sur	Departamento de Población Género y Desarrollo: Surge con dos objetivos, el primero busca impulsar estudios desde la perspectiva de género en tanto que la desigualdad se reproduce en las diferencias social y culturalmente construidas entre los sexos. El segundo objetivo es el de contribuir a la incorporación de esta perspectiva dentro del quehacer académico particular de El Colegio de la Frontera Sur. Departamento de Salud Género y Salud Reproductiva: Su propósito es estudiar los problemas y enfermedades relacionados con el proceso reproductivo, sus determinantes socioeconómicos y culturales, las políticas de las cuales derivan los programas para su atención y las características de la atención a la salud reproductiva. Se privilegia la perspectiva de género para profundizare n la comprensión de las condiciones de desigualdad entre mujeres y varones respecto a su salud reproductiva. Asimismo, se busca contribuir al debate nacional e internacional sobre políticas de población.	Dept. de Población Dr. Germán Martínez Velasco Dept. de Salud Dr. Héctor Ochoa Díaz López
Colegio de Méxcio Programa Interdisciplinario de Estudios de la Mujer	Maestría en Estudios de Género El objetivo de este curso es fortalecer las capacidades de investigación y docencia de los estudiantes en este campo de especialización. El programa pone especial énfasis en el análisis de las bases teóricas que fundamentan la inclusión de la perspectiva de género en las ciencias sociales y en el diseño de las políticas públicas. Curso Internacional de Verano en Estudios de Género El objetivo de este esfuerzo es ofrecer a las y los participantes un panorama introductorio de alta calidad al estudio social de las diversas dimensiones que, desde el punto de vista metodológico, teórico, empírico e interdisciplinario, deben abordarse para facilitar la reflexión sistemática sobre las relaciones de género y su impacto en la sociedad.	Maestría en Estudios de Género Curso de Verano
Fundación Mexicana para la Salud World Bank Institute	Adaptándose al cambio: Reforma del Sector Salud y Salud Sexual y Reproductiva La meta global del Curso es mejorar la salud y los derechos sexuales y reproductivos y las condiciones de la población en países en vías de desarrollo. El Curso está dirigido a agentes de cambio en las áreas de la salud y los derechos sexuales y reproductivos que se desempeñen en los ámbitos públicos -sectores de salud, finanzas y seguridad social-, académicos, de la sociedad civil, miembros de cuerpos legislativos, y prestadores de servicios de Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Perú y República Dominicana.	FUNSALUD Periférico Sur 4809 Col. Arenal Tepepan México, D.F. C.P. 14610 Tel:(5255)5655 9011 Fax:(5255)5655 8211
Programa Regional de Becas de Posgrado en las Ciencias Sociales	Programa Regional de Becas de Posgrado en las Ciencias Sociales La fundación Ford, la Fundación William y Flora Hewlett y la Fundación John D. y Catherine T. MacArthur, ofrecen becas complementarias a ciudadanos Mexicanos para realiza estudios de maestría y doctorado, fuera de su pais de origen, en las Ciencias Sociales: Derechos Humanos; Gobierno y Democraia; Desarrollo Social; Económico y comunitario; Paz y Seguridad; Desarrollo sostenible y Medio Ambiente; Relaciones Internacionales; Educación y Desarrollo; Salud Reproductiva y Sexual; Estudios de Género.	PRBPCS Instituto Internacional de Educación Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin Londres 16 Col. Juárez 06600 México, D.F Tel: (52) 5703-0167 Fax: (52) 5535-5597
Universidad Autónoma de Nueva León Facultad de Psicológia	Maestría en Ciencias con especialidad en Violencia Familiar El objetivo de este programa es promover la formación de investigadores docentes y profesionistas del área de Psicología y afines a la salud mental en el campo de la violencia familiar.	UANL Tel: 83483781 y 83336744
Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco	Licenciado en Sociología El objetivo general de este programa es formar profesionales que identifiquen y delimiten problemas en áreas prioritarias de la sociedad para contribuir a su bienestar, analizar y proponer respuestas a los problemas que viven los diferentes sectores de la sociedad mexicana en general y la sociedad tabasqueña en particular, desde la óptica de la sociología y las ciencias sociales. Incluye una sección sobre la Sociología de Género.	División de Ciencias Sociales Av. Universidad S/N Zona de la Cultura Villahermosa, Tabasco Tel: (993) 312 7208
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Programa Universitario de Estudios de Género	La propuesta de creación del PUEG fue estructurada y planteada por un amplio grupo de académicas de la UNAM. El PUEG, desde su fundación en 1992, se propuso promover y coordinar actividades académicas para elevar el nivel académico de los trabajos que en la UNAM se desarrollan desde la perspectiva de género, e impulsar la incorporación de la perspectiva de género en el trabajo académico, así como en el diseño de políticas y programas públicos.	PUEG Gloria Careaga Pérez Secretaría Académica
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Género, Desarrollo y Democracia (Diplomado de Actualización Profesional) En el marco del Programa de Investigaciones sobre Teoría, Perspectiva y Enfoques de Género, la UNAM ha organizado este diplomado destinado a discutir la importancia de impulsar el diseño de políticas de desarrollo centradas en combatir la opresión genérica y fortalecer los procesos de democratización de la vida social.	María Castillo Guerrero Tel: 56-23-00-28 Hermelinda Mendoza Tel: 56-23-04-46
THE NETHERLANDS
KIT Gender	KIT offers a number of training courses and workshops which include such themes as: Basic gender training; Training of trainers; Gender, citizenship and governance and Gender and development.	KIT Gender P.O. Box 95001 1090 HA Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: +31 20 5688 306 Fax: +31 20 5688 409
G&DTC Gender and Development Training Center	International Training of Trainers in Gender and Development Courses are offered in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese "Gender, Identity, Conflict and Development" The main objective of the course is to provide analytical tools to deepen the participants' understanding of the link between gender, development and conflict, militarisation and the construction of masculinity, femininity as well as other identities. At the end of the course participants will have a better comprehension of the gendered nature of crisis prevention, conflict resolution, peace building and social reconstruction and will be able to apply their learning's into their working practice.	gen.dtc@inter.nl.net
Institute of Social Studies	Understanding and Managing Reproductive Health This course is ideally suited to young and mid-career government and NGO professionals who need a short intensive introduction/updating in gender sensitive and participatory approaches to reproductive health in the wider field of Population, Health and Development.	ISS PO Box 29776 2502 LT The Hague Tel:+31-70-4260608 Fax:+31-70-4260799
International Agricultural Centre	Course on Gender, Organizational Change, Agriculture and Leadership All over the world, organisations involved in agricultural and rural development are facing the challenge of addressing gender inequalities in an effective and sustainable fashion. Gender perspectives have to be mainstreamed in organisations and programmes; a process which needs to be approached creatively if it is to be successful. This may necessitate considerable changes: in planning, in monitoring and evaluation systems, in organisational set-ups, and in organisational cultures.	IAC P.O. Box 88 6700 AB Wageningen The Netherlands Tel: 31 317 495 495 Fax: 31 317 495 395
International Training Centre for Women	Gender MBA Programme I.T.W. offers from October 1998 a Gender MBA for all women interested in upgrading their management skills. An international staff of professors from London U.K., Germany, France and Indonesia offer a special programme for women seeking an international career. Professional Management Training Programme The four-week core programme consists of modules 1-5 plus one additional module. Each module consists of 3 days training combined with 2 days practical work as well as regular excursions. The six-week extended course consists of modules 1-5 plus 3 additional modules. Tailor-made programmes can be arranged to meet the specific training needs of middle-management groups from one organisation.	ITW International Training Centre for Women P.O.Box 3611 1001 AK AMSTERDAM Tel: 31(20)-420-5243 Fax: 31(20)-626-3178
Netherlands School of Public and Occupational Health	Course on Sexual and Reproductive Health; the Dutch Approach This new course addresses current SRH training needs of workers in developing countries and CCEE/NIS. The goal of this intensive, interactive course is to enable participants to update and upgrade their knowledge and skills in designing and managing projects on SRH and to "translate" programmes into concrete target group oriented activities in a coherent and comprehensive manner.	SRH Course Secretariat Tel: + 31 35 6422304 Fax: + 31 35 6423713
University of Amsterdam	Summer Institute: “Sexuality, Culture, and Society” The Summer Institute is an intensive four-week summer program which focuses on the study of sexuality across cultures and is taught by an international faculty team. This specialised programme is for advanced students, primarily Ph.D. and MA students in the socio-cultural sciences and professionals working for NGOs.	University of Amsterdam Oude Turfmarkt 129 1012 GC Amsterdam Tel: 312-0525-3776 Fax: 312-0525-3778
University of Nijmegen Centre for Women’s Studies	Certificate programme in Sexuality, Gender and Society The program is especially designed to offer (international) students the unique opportunity to earn a credential on a scientific level in a short period of time. The objective is to provide students with an intensive, comprehensive education in sexuality and gender from a theoretical and historical perspective.	Claudia Krops Centre for Women's Studies University of Nijmegen P.O. Box 9104 6500 HE Nijmegen Tel: 3124-3613069
Utrecht University NOISE European Summer School (2002)	This years' Summer School offers a varied and integrated programme in Women's Studies from multicultural and interdisciplinary perspectives. The school consists of three clusters, focusing on themes around the notions of 'diasporic identities' and 'mediated cultures'.	NOISE International Office of Women's Studies Utrecht University Trans 10 3512 JK Utrecht Tel.: 3130-2536013 Fax.: 3130-2536695
Women's Caucus for Gender Justice (HQ in New York)	Gender and the International Court Training course on Gender and the International Penal Court. Critical use of international justice mechanisms, gender-based crimes in the International Penal Court and their relevance at the national level. The objective is to develop a better understanding of the IPC and its relevance to legal defense, activism, and legal training. Course takes place at the IPC in The Hague.	Susan John P.O. Box 3451 Grand Central Post Office New York, NY 10163, USA Tel: (1.718) 626 2681 Fax (1.718) 626 3528
NICARAGUA
CANTERA	A series of methodological training courses for NGO staff members, community leaders, members of collectives, associations, etc., are conducted every year. Topics include Masculinity and Population Education, Popular Education with Women and Gender, Power and Violence	CANTERA
FUNDECI	FUNDECI offers several training courses in the areas of domestic violence, family and personal health, women’s rights, economic development, and gender awareness.	FUNDECI Apdo. Postal 2694 Managua, Nicaragua Tel: 011.505.266.4373 Fax: 011.505.266.3381
Puntos de Encuentro Women's University	The Women's University is a program for women who wish to learn how to make their own work contribute to women's overall development	Puntos de Encuentro Rotonda del Güegüense 4c abajo 1c al lago Apdo. RP-39 Managua, Nicaragua Tel: (0) 268-1227 Fax: (0) 266-6305
Puntos de Encuentro	Along with the Women's University, Puntos also runs a number of training courses for young leaders, women and men	Puntos de Encuentro Rotonda del Güegüense 4c abajo 1c al lago Apdo. RP-39, Managua, Nicaragua Tel: (0) 268-1227 Fax: (0) 266-6305
ON-LINE PUBLICATIONS
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Centres for Disease Control	Intimate Partner Violence During Pregnancy: A Guide for Clinicians Designed as a training tool for clinicians to increase understanding of the role they can play in identifying, preventing, and reducing intimate partner violence. Includes a situation report and potential areas of action for clinical staff.	Available for download free of charge or contact: ccdinfo@cdc.gov
American Medical Association	Diagnostic and Treatment Guidelines on Family Violence Includes 7 separate modules establishing guidelines on different aspects of violence. Can be used separately of as one comprehensive package (Child Physicial Abuse and Neglect and Child Sexual Abuse, Domestic violence, Elder abuse and negelct, Strategies for the treatment and prevention of sexual assault, Mental health effects of family violence, Physician guide to media violence, Physician firearm safety guide). The International Planned Parenthood Federation has translated these guidelines into Spanish, available at: http://www.ippfwhr.org/resources/violencia.html	Available for download free of charge
CARE RHRC	Reproductive Health Programming In Refugee Settings: A Five-Day Training Program for Health Personnel This five-day training program for health personnel will allow participants to appreciate the reproductive health needs of refugees, and will impart basic RH knowledge and skills for service delivery in a refugee setting. Four areas of reproductive health are considered: Safe Motherhood, including Emergency Obstetric Care; Family Planning; Sexual Violence and STDs, including HIV/AIDS.	Available for download free of charge (Word Files)
CEDPA	Gender and Development The curriculum is designed to enable development workers to create gender-responsive institutions, policies, programs and projects. It examines gender influences in the participants' own lives, cultural reinforcement of gender roles and relationships and how these affect the development process.	Order on-line from CEDPA
CEDPA	Gender, Reproductive Health, and Advocacy This curriculum uses participatory methodologies to equip NGOs to implement reproductive health programs and strategies. The workshop familiarizes participants with the ICPD Programme of Action and framework for reproductive health, helps participants identify how their organizations' programs fit within this broadened reproductive health framework, and assists participants to develop strategies and action plans for expanding and integrating organizational activities in the areas of gender, reproductive health, and/or advocacy. (Also available in Spanish)	Available for download free of charge (PDF File)
The Commonwealth Secretariat	Gender Mainstreaming Guides and Handbooks A series of quick guides and more comprehensive handbooks designed to orient policy-makers and programme managers mianstreaming gender in: Education; Finance; Indicators; Information and Communications; Trade and Industry; Development Planning; Public Service; Budget Planning; Budget Analysis.	Gender Division Tel: 44 207 747 6460 Fax: 44 207 930 1647
The Commonwealth Secretariat	Gender and Relationships: A Practical Action Kit for Young People This kit is designed to help young people facilitating youth programmes and adults working with young people to integrate gender issues into sexual and reproductive health programmes. It includes fact sheets, information on programme planning, activities for peer educators and facilitators, activities for young people and a resource list.	Gender Division Tel: 44 207 747 6460 Fax: 44 207 930 1647 The Commonwealth Secretariat Marlborough House Pall Mall London SW1Y 5HX
Consortium for Emergency Contraception	Emergency Contraceptive Pills: Medical and Service Delivery Guidelines These guidelines deal with medical and service delivery issues related to two types of ECPs: (1) pills containing a progestin only (levonorgestrel or norgestrel), and (2) pills containing a combination of a progestin (levonorgestrel or norgestrel) and an estrogen (ethinyl estradiol). A brief overview of the use of IUDs for emergency contraception is included in the Appendix.	Available for download free of charge (PDF File)
Family Care International	Strengthening Commuication Skills for Women's Health: A Training Guide This training guide is designed as a complement to clinical training programmes, to help improve the communication skillls of nurses, midwives and other health wrkers who provide services to women. Deals specifically with reproductive health. Uses a wide variety of training tools: particularly case studies and role playing.	Order from FCI
Family Health International	Re-thinking Differences and Rights in Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Training Manual for Health Care Providers This training package is designed to promote an approach to sexual and reproductive health care that recognizes different needs and perspectives within a context of respect for the rights and dignity of men and women.	Available for download free of charge
Family Violence Prevention Fund	Improving the Health Care Reponse to Domestic Violence: A Resource Manual for Health Care Providers and A Trainer's Manual for Health Care Providers The 250 page Resource Manual includes: Information, Practical Tools and Ideas to help develop and implement response strategies and programs within a variety of health care practices and settings. The Training Manual provides step by step instructions for teaching each section of the Resource Manual.	Order from FVPF
Finland Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Navigating Gender: A Framework and a Tool for Participatory Development This manual has been written to help the reader apply the often theoretical understanding of gender issues in practical work. It includes key concepts and definitions, as well as introductions to alternative gender analysis frameworks. Navigating Gender can be used both as an individual study guide, or as a basis for discussion in groups.	Available for download free of charge
FOWODE (Forum for Women in Democracy)	Gender Budgeting Training (GBT) Package and Course Using the now commonly known concept of "The Gender Budget", FOWODE has developed a training package which can be used to lobby for gender-balanced national and local government budgets that can address the needs of poor women and men, girls and boys and give full attention to the disadvantaged groups such as people with disabilities. The Gender Budget Training Course consists of 6 two-day residential workshops facilitated by a FOWODE trainer or any experienced trainer using the GBT package. The package itself consists of Five (5) easy to follow handbooks covering the following topics: Gender Issues; Budgets and Budget making; Gender budgeting; Budget Advocacy; A guide to the Gender Budget Training (GBT) Package.	The FOWODE Center P.O Box 7176 Kampala Plot 80A Kira Road Tel: +256-41-540241/2 Fax:+256-41-540243
Gender and Health Group Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine	Guidelines for the analysis of Gender and Health (Training manual) Health policy makers and practitioners usually have little training in recognising and addressing gender issues. Although there is a range of materials available which offer general assistance in considering gender issues in development practice, few refer specifically to the issues which are most relevant to health. The Gender and Health Group at the Liverpool School for Tropical Medicine has developed these “Guidelines for Gender Analysis in Health” to offer such specific assistance to health professionals. The overall aim of the guidelines is to enhance the ability to understand and respond to gender issues amongst those involved in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of health care provision and health research.	Anne Gordon Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Pembroke Place Liverpool L3 5QA Tel: 0151 705 3200 Fax: 0151 707 1702
INSTRAW	Women, Environmental Management and Sustainable Development The training package aims to contribute to an integrated approach in the organization and management of environmental policies and programs through the integration of women's needs as well as their participation in planning, management, implementation and evaluation of environmental programs and projects.	Order from INSTRAW
International Labour Organization	Modular Package on Gender, Poverty and Employment The capacity-building modular training packages are designed to stimulate effective action at the national, regional and local levels by strengthening constituents' capacity for action in terms of policies and programmes regarding gender equality, poverty eradication and employment promotion. The packages review major issues and trends, strategies and actions as well as lessons from past experience. They also provide indicative guidelines for action in a number of policy areas, such as financial resource management, access to assets, wage employment, training and social protection, all from an ILO perspective.	To order contact: ILO Publications
IPAS	Gender or Sex: Who Cares? Skills Building resources Pack on Gender and Reproductive Health for Adolescents and Youth Workers This resource pack includes a manual, curriculum cards and overhead transparencies/handouts, and provides an introduction to the topic of gender and sexual and reproductive health (SRH). The resource pack has three parts: the manual, a set of curriculum cards for use during workshops and a set of overhead transparencies and handouts. Also available in Spanish at: http://www.ipas.org/arch/pdf/GenderBookSpan.pdf	Available for download free of charge (PDF File)
IPPF/WHR International Planned Parenthood Federation (Western Hemisphere Region)	Tools for Providers Working with Victims of Gender-Based Violence The tools were developed for facilitating an approach to gender-based violence in the context of sexual and reproductive health care. The kit includes: Definitions; Screening tool; Sample stamp for client intake form to record information on GBV; Management checklist; Legal framework for service providers adressing GBV; Knowledge, attitudes and practices questionnaire for health-care providers; Observation guide.	Available for download free of charge (PDF Files)
IPPF/WHR	An STI Primer Provides background information about the history and study of STIs, prevalence data on STIs in Latin America and the Caribbean, and basic information on the symptoms, prevention and treatment of specific STIs	IPPF/WHR Tel. (212) 248-6400 Fax (212) 248-4221
Inter Press Service	Gender, HIV and Rights: A Training Manual for the Media This training manual looks at avariety of issues, including: why gender training for the media is important; mainstreaming gender in all news coverage; communicating gender in the media; journalists as communicators- why a gender analysis framework for the media is important; a gender analysis checklist for the media	IPS Via Panisperna 207 00184 Rome, Italy Tel:(+39 06) 485692 Fax:(+39 06) 4817877
Oxfam	The Oxfam Gender Training Manual (1994) Covers the basics such as the sex vs. gender debate, gender roles and needs, development, building gender awareness, as well as more specific issues: Violence against women, rape, masculinity, gender-sensitive analysis, gender and conflict, gender and the environment, gender and economic crisis, gender and culture.	Contact Oxfam Publishing Download the order form from the Oxfam Publishing Website Or visit Women, Ink.
PATH Program for Appropriate Technologies in Health	International Reproductive Health Sample Curricula The packet provides a resource to faculty and other curriculum decision-makers interested in introducing or expanding coverage of international reproductive health and rights issues. The faculty who have generously contributed their courses encourage adoption or adaptation of their work, knowing that the models they have provided will make the challenge of designing or enhancing reproductive health courses easier.	Available for download free of charge Or contact PATH
Refugee Studies Centre University of Oxford	The Refugee Experience: A Psychosocial Training Module A 30-hour psychosocial training module and associated resources to facilitate the training of humanitarian assistance workers in response to the psychosocial needs of refugees. The module is targeted to the development of critical competencies in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of psychosocial programmes. There is a section on Gender and Forced Migration which covers the topics of sexual violence and reproductive health	Maryanne Loughry Alastair Ager
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency	A Handbook on CEDAW, The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women This handbook on the CEDAW aims to familiarise international development co- operation personnel with the human rights obligations of individual states with regard to women.	info@sida.se
UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)	Learning, Consultation and Briefing Workshops There are three components of the LCB Methodology: A set of six learning and information materials to develop the competencies needed for gender mainstreaming; Guidelines on the facilitation of capacity building workshops, and the facilitation of broader cycles of organisational learning Logistical and database systems to support the management of mainstreaming workshops, and mainstreaming in organisational structures and processes.	Available for download free of charge
UNDP	Exercises in Gender Mainstreaming A series of five exercises to be used during gender training workshops. The execises cover: Planning a governance program Planning a poverty/sustainable livelihoods program Planning a human rights program Planning a post-conflict demobilisation/re-integration initiative Preliminary study for a community-based water resources project	Available for download free of charge (PDF File).
UNFPA (United Nations Fund for Population Activities	A Practical Approach to Gender-Based Violence: A Programme Guide for Health Care Providers and Managers Health workers and managers Flexible This publication contains practical steps needed to integrate gender-based violence into reproductive health facilities. It is also meant to help a wider range of readers to understand the connections between reproductive and sexual health and violence.	Available for download free of charge (PDF File)
UNIFEM United Nations Development Fund for Women	Gender, HIV and Human Rights: A Training Manual HIV/AIDS requires a gender-specific response. This manual has been prepared in response to this need. It aims to help trainers enhance their understanding about the gender dimensions of HIV/AIDS, so that they can then effectively influence a critical mass of change makers in their “spheres of influence” to undertake appropriate responses to the challenges being posed by the epidemic.	UNIFEM 304 East 45th Street New York, NY 10017 USA Tel: (212) 906-6400 F

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