Programmes that merely accommodate gender inequality leave its root causes intact; gender-transformative approaches set out to change the norms, power relations, and structures that perpetuate it. This advanced programme equips senior practitioners to design and lead gender-transformative community programming that shifts power and advances genuine equality.
Designed for an international audience from officer to director level, the programme moves beyond gender mainstreaming to transformation: analysing power and norms, engaging men and boys, working with women’s collective agency, and measuring normative change. Participants learn to lead programming that is intersectional, evidence-based, and capable of producing lasting shifts in gender relations.
Course Objectives
Upon the successful completion of this program, attendees will be able to:
- Critically appraise gender-transformative approaches
- Distinguish gender-sensitive, responsive, and transformative programming
- Conduct gender and power analysis
- Analyse social norms and their drivers
- Design gender-transformative interventions
- Shift harmful gender norms
- Engage men and boys constructively
- Strengthen women’s collective agency and leadership
- Apply intersectionality in programming
- Address structural barriers to equality
- Integrate transformation across sectors
- Manage backlash and resistance
- Measure normative and power change
- Build organisational gender capacity
- Sustain transformative change
- Anticipate emerging trends in gender-transformative practice
Course Outline
- Module 1: Gender-Transformative Approaches
- Module 2: Sensitive, Responsive & Transformative Programming
- Module 3: Gender & Power Analysis
- Module 4: Social Norms & Their Drivers
- Module 5: Designing Transformative Interventions
- Module 6: Shifting Harmful Gender Norms
- Module 7: Engaging Men & Boys
- Module 8: Women’s Collective Agency & Leadership
- Module 9: Applying Intersectionality
- Module 10: Addressing Structural Barriers
- Module 11: Integrating Transformation Across Sectors
- Module 12: Managing Backlash & Resistance
- Module 13: Measuring Normative & Power Change
- Module 14: Building Organisational Gender Capacity
- Module 15: Emerging Trends: Gender-Transformative Practice
Who Should Attend
This advanced programme is designed for international gender advisers and specialists, programme directors, GEDSI and technical leads, and senior officers responsible for gender-transformative programming across INGO, national NGO, and donor settings.
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