How to Use Your GENIA Toolkit
Your GENIA Toolkit contains several types of resources. These are clustered under subtitles for easy reference. Short notes will guide you in how to use these resources. Tools to Open Minds to Gender and Education - Sensitizing and Training The „more-than-an-agenda‟ Agenda of the GENIA Training – This agenda includes brief notes on context/strategy, learning objectives and materials for each activity in a 4-day workshop. Use: to give Gender Focal Points an insight into the planning and strategy behind a participatory gender workshop so they could confidently repeat activities in their own workshops. Gender Definitions Use: to give you a set of gender definitions at your fingertips. You won’t be caught off guard if someone quizzes you on gender terms. The definitions are printed on a laminated coloured card so you can use them often and find them in the mountain of white paper in your office. Having definitions handy also will help you speak clearly and consistently about gender. Statements about Women and Men Use: A checklist to see if participants have understood the difference between gender and sex. Gender Equality Donkey – Graphic with facilitation notes. Use: to give you a simple, visual and fun way of explaining gender equality. You can use this as a training or a discussion tool. Climbing the Steps: Gender Equity to Gender Equality – Graphic with facilitation notes. Use: to provide you with a visual aid to explain the difference between gender equity and gender equality. It often does not register when one explains that gender equity is about creating fairness. It is a process, different from gender equality, which is an outcome. Gender equality is the equal valuing by society of each man and each woman. This allows all persons to realize their full human rights and to be all they can be in socio-cultural, economic and political spheres. This is difficult for many people to understand quickly: words alone often don’t work. So, that’s the reason for this graphic. This stair step drawing gives you short notes to take people step by step to an understanding of the difference between equity and equality.
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Backgrounder: „What is a Gender Lens?‟ This backgrounder gives a simple explanation of what is meant when we are asked to „put on our gender lens‟ or put on our „gender spectacles‟. Once we put on our mental „gender lens‟, we can use this awareness to create a physical „gender lens‟, in the form of a checklist, a list of criteria, an evaluation framework, etc. When a „gender lens‟ is created for a core function, it can be used routinely. This is called an „operational gender lens‟. „What is a Gender Lens?‟ also gives the key characteristics of an operational gender lens. Use: to provide a simple way of explaining the concept of a ‘gender lens’ and of facilitating a group to create an operational gender lens, or checklist, for a core MoE function. (See the section below called ‘Hands-On Gender Tools for Use in MoE. This contains examples of several operational gender lenses that help make education more gender-responsive)
Tools to Explain Gender Mainstreaming Definition of Gender Mainstreaming – Source: United Nations (EcoSoc Resolution 1997/2) Although this definition is long, the content is good and the meaning is clear. Use: to have a handy definition of gender mainstreaming that has a respected source. Gender Mainstreaming Cycle – Graphic and brief facilitation notes. Use: to provide you with a simple visual aid that will help you clearly explain gender mainstreaming. Using the graphic will help you and others register the two key elements. Consider this a planning tool, a human resource management tool and a facilitation tool. Tools to Create Gender-Responsive Education for All Plans Guidelines for Implementing, Monitoring and Evaluating Gender Responsive EFA Plans. This UNESCO Bangkok booklet is a user-friendly „how to‟ guide. It is custom-designed to help EFA planners and Gender Focal Points mainstream gender into each stage of the EFA process. It puts gender analysis in a meaningful context and is rich with examples and mini case studies. Use: to give concrete examples and explanations that will help EFA teams create and implement gender-responsive plans. Gender Tools to Use in Education Ministries Gender Lens Series. The GENIA network has created a series of operational gender lenses. (See „What is a Gender Lens‟ referred to earlier in „Tools to Open Minds‟.) Each gender lens was created for regular use in a core MoE function. One lens is a tool for making sure education projects are gender-responsive. Another lens measures the child-friendliness of schools and a third helps create curriculum and textbooks that are free of gender bias. Each is designed to make the use of gender analysis easy and routine. The fourth gender lens has a different focus. It is a
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monitoring lens designed to help assess the gender responsiveness of MoE departments. It sets out consistent criteria for assessing the gender responsiveness of education bureaucracies. These lenses have the potential to help institutionalize gender analysis in a meaningful way in Asian education systems. Gender Lens for Education Projects (Created at the GENIA ChiangMai Gender Training Workshop) Gender Lens for Measuring the Child-Friendliness of Schools (Created with input from GENIA workshops in Thailand and Pakistan with MoE and nongovernment stakeholders in 2002) Gender Lens to Create Curriculum and Textbooks Free of Gender Bias (Created at a GENIA workshop conducted by Pakistan MoE with external education stakeholders in 2002) Gender Lens to Measure the Gender-Friendliness of MoE Departments (Created at a GENIA workshop conducted by Thailand‟s MoE with external education stakeholders in 2002) Gender Lens to Measure the Gender Responsiveness of Community Learning Centres (CLCs) Use: to make it easy and manageable for education ministry officials to integrate a gender perspective in their core functions. These lenses also make gender visible and more pertinent – helping legitimize, and establish the value and role of the Gender Focal Point. Classroom Observation Tools: Guidelines for How to Conduct Classroom Observations from a Gender Perspective. Use: To fill in on a visit to a school and in a classroom observation, then analyze in order to identify gender bias in the school and classroom environment and in the teaching learning process. Resources on GENIA Slide Show: Gender and Education Network in Asia (GENIA) - Background and objectives. Use: to help you respond if your boss or someone else asks, “What is GENIA?”
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