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Gender, Poverty and Employment: Information, analysis and strategies for poverty reduction through decent work for women and men
This course, based on the ILO “Gender Poverty and Employment” approach, will help you gain a better understanding of the dimensions of poverty, and formulate gender sensitive strategies to address them. Gender-based inequalities differentiate the processes that lead women and men into poverty and out of it, and interact with race, ethnicity and other possible grounds for discrimination. Poverty can also be traced to problems in the world of work - unequal access to employment opportunities, poor working conditions, powerlessness, and economic and social insecurity.
This programme will lead you through the linkages between poverty, lack of access to and control over productive assets, and gender-based discrimination. You will see how the gender-based inequalities and discrimination in the world of work play a role in the circle of poverty and how their elimination has to be part of an integrated poverty reduction agenda.
Online Courses on Decentralization and Governance
The UNPAN Online Training Centre delivers courses on various topics in public administration. The main objective of the UNPAN Training Centre is to increase the opportunities for government officials from all over the world to access training materials on e-government.
UNPAN online training courses are available to anyone with Internet access and are provided free of charge. UNPAN on-line training courses are available in English, French, Ukrainian, Russian and Arabic.
For further information concerning these courses, including information about course availability, registration, enrolment and pre-requisites please click on the URL below.
E-Learning Course: Getting to the Gate
Equal Voices present 'Getting to the Gate', our online campaign school for women interested in getting into politics. This course is free of charge; however, all users must register to access the course.
This online course aims to increase the number of elected women by providing practical tools for women of all ages, backgrounds and walks of life interested in running for public office.
UNESCO & IGNOU - Gender Training Kit
This gender training kit brings you resources on gender and development drawn from the World Wide Web and audio/video/print materials. There are seven gender training modules in the kit. They are designed in self-instructional format and include lessons, self assessment and tests for evaluation. The content areas include:
Module 1: Dimensions of Empowerment and Gender Training
Module 2: Gender-sensitive Policies, Interventions and Institutions
Module 3: Media, Methods and Approaches in Gender Training
Module 4: Education and Research
Module 5: Leadership
Module 6: Governance
Module 7: Entrepreneurship
To find out details about the training kit please visit the URL below.
E-learning Courses: Anti Corruption
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark - Competence Centre has recently launched the E-learning Portal, which is a new edition of our web platform for distribution of e-learning courses and related online activities. This notice informs external users about the changes while more general information about the launch can be found in a separate notice on the e-learning portal. External users in this regard are defined as everybody, who are not registered as MFA staff.
The access to the E-learning Portal and the new design might be the first noticeable change for external users. External websites like the Train4Dev website now links directly to the new E-learning Portal and you can use your existing username and password to access your e-learning courses.
Please click on the URL below to access information about the ecourses and the process of signing up.
BRIDGE Civic Education Development Project
The BRIDGE Civic Education Development Project (CEDP) is a professional development project to build capacity in people working in areas of democracy and governance.
This project developed from the concept of establishing a civics and governance component within the umbrella of BRIDGE. BRIDGE stands for Building Resources in Democracy, Governance and Elections and the CEDP aims to expand the current BRIDGE elections (E) curriculum to include the Democracy and Governance (D and G) of BRIDGE.
To find out details about the program please click on the URL below.
Gender Training Wiki
The UN INSTRAW Gender Training Wiki is intended to provide a centralized resource centre for gender trainers, academics, gender mainstreaming, knowledge management & development experts and practitioners , as well as individuals and organizations in general looking for gender training opportunities and resources and funding for their activities.
UN INSTRAW staff regularly updates the information in the Gender Training Wiki. However, the Wiki is a participatory resource centre and the intention is that this site will be self sustaining and the community of registered users will upload and comment on content as well as benefiting from content uploaded by others.
eLearning Course on Effective Electoral Assistance
The European Commission (EC), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) are pleased to announce the arrival of the pioneer eLearning Course on Effective Electoral Assistance. The Course has been developed within the Train4Dev initiative and in collaboration with International Organization for Migration (IOM), Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Organization for American States (OAS) and the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affiars.
The overarching objective of the eLearning Course on Effective Electoral Assistance is to make the electoral assistance community to deliver more effective assistance in line with the main principles informing the Paris Declaration (2005) and the Accra Agenda for Action (2008) regards ownership, alignment, harmonization, results and accountability. Development of the capacities of electoral assistance providers (multilateral and bilateral agencies and international organizations) as well those receiving assistance (national electoral management bodies and other electoral stakeholders) is vital in improving assistance effectiveness.
The eLearning Course is developed on the basis of the face-to-face Joint EC-UNDP-IDEA Joint Training on Effective Electoral Assistance. The first training of this type was organized in September 2006 in Brussels and since then the training has developed tremendously in terms of the audience, the experts contributing and the curriculum.
To find further details please visit E-Learning Portal.
Making Governance Gender Responsive
This online course is composed of ten modules on the theme "Gender Responsive Governance". The modules are developed by the Center for Asia Pacific Women in Politics (CAPWIP). The funding for the module development was provided by APGEN, the United Nations Development Programme's Regional Gender Program (UNDP-APGEN) .
The course seeks to develop the public's understanding of the link between gender and governance as well as to increase the awareness of gender biases in governance.
Each module has an introduction; a pre-test that users must take to analyze his/her initial understanding of the lessons covered in each module; the lessons proper; and a post test to evaluate what the users have learned from each module.
To find more details on registration and the course please visit Online Women in Politics.
Women in Arab media: present but not heard
Dr. Leila Nicolas Rahbani provides an in-depth report and analysis on the state of Arab women in the media in the Middle East and North Africa. The new information technologies have allowed women in Arab world to be seen as equal to men in their ability to discuss, investigate, report and present various issues. They facilitated links and networks for women to interact effectively and share information and resources faster. Meanwhile, the women's movements in the region are increasingly using the electronic media to put forward their advocacy and build solidarity.This paper is an examination of whether Arab women are gaining “role” as they increased their “presence” in Arab media.
