The training is grounded on feminist principles and pedagogies. It employs adult learning, participatory, adaptive, emancipatory, experiential and interactive approaches. The training fosters critical examination of power, privileges, and biases. Additionally, the course seeks to provide participants with a strategic set of tools and ‘lenses’ that they can use as they implement their plans to lead for gender equality and women’s rights.
Identify the components, opportunities and challenges of fostering gender-inclusive, transformative leadership for gender justice in their organizational contexts • Understand how gender justice amplifies intersectional approaches to social justice in the outcomes of organizational efforts, as well as in the organisational culture • Catalyze organizational and team cultures that reward intersectional thinking and respect for women's rights and human rights • Articulate their vision and the specific actions they will take and support they will need to lead for gender justice in their organisation's internal culture and programmes, strategies and outcomes .
• Practitioners with managerial roles and responsibilities, and/or with functions to provide strategic or visionary guidance to their offices or organisations. • Participants can be from governmental offices, civil society organisations, development agencies, UN agencies, or private businesses.
Aruna Rao (Gender at Work Co-Founder and former Executive Director) is a gender and development expert with over 30 years' experience in pioneering new approaches to gender and institutional change. Beginning with her work with BRAC in Bangladesh, she has gone on to lead the boards of directors of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) and CIVICUS, as well as serving on the board of the UN Democracy Fund.
Joanne Sandler, a senior associate of Gender at Work, is an independent consultant focused on women’s human rights and organizational change strategies. Joanne has worked with international organizations, private foundations, academic institutions and women’s organizations and networks for the past 30 years
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