September 28, 2011 – On September 15th PSO and WO=MEN organized a third learning-event for the participants of the Gender Learning in Action Community. CIVICUS (Johannesburg, South Africa), DAI, IICD, Justitia et Pax, MWPN, TIE, WO=MEN and PSO came together to gain a deeper understanding of ways to anchor gender policy and practice in their organisations. The participants are at the verge of starting an action learning research process with their Southern partners. The focus of the learning-event was on the ‘how and what of action research in practice’.
March 2011, the month of spring is a wonderful opportunity to announce the next step in the Thematic Learning Program Gender: participant groups will start to formulate their action research goals and methodologies.
In order to obtain a successful process of gender mainstreaming, the use of tools (such as a gender traffic light) only is not sufficient. Some preconditions need to be fulfilled, such as sufficient technical capacity, a gender friendly organisational culture, accountability and political will. A booklet on existing gender tools was prepared for a PSO gender meeting at The Hague on December 8, 2009. This overview has been updated in February 2011. Read the updated booklet op existing gender tools.
On the 18th and 19th of March 2010 a two-days collective learning event titled Revising Gender in Fragile States took place in Doorn, at the Zonheuvel. A diverse range of organisations participated actively in the event, including the Centre for Conflict Studies, Impunity Watch, Cordaid, IKV Pax Christi and Oxfam Novib.
The Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Science has send a flyer to PSO about a training that aims to provide guidelines for addressing gender issues in projects and programmes.
mainstreaming, the use of tools (such as a gender traffic light) only is not sufficient. Some preconditions need to be fulfilled, such as sufficient technical capacity, a gender friendly organisational culture, accountability and political will. A booklet on existing gender tools was prepared for a PSO gender meeting at The Hague on December 8, 2009. This overview has been updated in February 2011. Read the