Taigüey Foundation "grant DELNET study provides" local development with a gender perspective "

Section: Community Projects

Scholarship grant DELNET study "Local Development from a gender perspective"

June 10, 2008

Delnet is a program to support local development of the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization , a United Nations agency responsible for promoting social justice and labor standards and internationally recognized human rights. One of the American Foundation Scholarships - IAF was awarded to Victoria Rodriguez for a course in "Local Development from a gender perspective"

The program

The distance learning course for Local Development from a Gender Perspective consists of five teaching units that constitute the backbone of the learning process, while allowing you to access and use other papers, their interaction with other participants and their relationship with the experts and Delnet tutors.

Participants Delnet courses receive constant support of a teaching team that specializes in local development and distance learning. Tutoring Service offers also a space available on-line tool to develop performance related learning: the virtual classroom. Through this electronic platform can access the courses, groups and tutors, facilitating the monitoring of the content. Summarised information on the offers teaching units and elements of analysis and reflection questions that point to the application of concepts experiences and theories and tools in their own local situation of each participant.
Each teaching unit is structured as follows:

. The first part, which is working on a conceptual content, a second in which the participant applies to the practical arena.
A self-assessment exercise that enables you to evaluate their own learning and receive support and feedback from tutors.

The contents of the teaching units are organized as follows:

TRAINING UNIT	CONTENTS
UD 1 - The gender order and its manifestations in society and in the territory	Importance and gender mainstreaming in local development. Local Development: Order of gender and sex-gender system Notions of equality and discrimination Vulnerability and exclusion
UD 2 - international legislative framework	International legislative framework and international instruments protecting the rights of women The role of supranational organizations in gender equality Promoting equality in the legal framework of the decentralization policy and local development.
UD 3 - Local Policies-promoting gender equality	Policies of gender equality at local level (agenda to promote gender equality contextual elements that influence the policy-promoting gender equality Women's participation in local The gender mainstreaming in national strategies, policies and local programs
UD 4 - Planning with a Gender Perspective	Planning as a proposed methodology for the design and implementation of projects Women in development planning Planning with a focus on gender indicators géneroü Gender-sensitive budget
UD 5 - Tools for gender-sensitive planning	Strategic planning tools with gender Local services to promote gender equality