Developed by: Indira Gandhi National Open University in collaboration with UNESCO
Type of resource: website
Target audience: Women
Cost: Members only

This gender training kit gives you an opportunity to upgrade your knowledge and skills in the crucial area of gender and development. The kit has 7 modules which cover issues of empowerment, governance, gender sensitive policies, education, and leadership. Each module has lessons and assessments before going on to the next module. You must sign up at the learning centre to receive the kit's modules.

http://www.ignou.ac.in/igun_gentr/index.asp

Gender and Training: Mainstreaming gender equality and the planning, realisation, and evaluation of training programmes

Developed by: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Type of resource: PDF file
Target audience: Trainers, Women
Cost: Free access

Based on the concept of "didactics that promote gender equality", manual prepared by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation for its staff and consultants, the manual defines key terms and practical tips for being gender aware in the workplace. It encourages trainers to examine content, work forms and methods, their own gender knowledge, language and communication.

http://www.siyanda.org/docs/sdc_toolkitenglish.pdf

Gender Training Wiki

Developed by: INSTRAW
Type of resource: wiki
Target audience: General, Women
Cost: Free access

INSTRAW has launched a wiki for compiling events, institutions and materials regarding gender training. Available in Spanish and English, and increasingly, French, the wiki is full of links to handbooks, indicators, and tips on gender training with a wide range of content areas including poverty, leadership, environment, and violence against women. Of particular interest for ItrainOnline users are the handbooks regarding ICTs and gender and media, although
trainers will find the site very useful overall.

http://www.un-instraw.org/wiki/training/index.php/
Main_Page

Gender for Journalists

Developed by: Commonwealth Press Union / Trish Williams
Type of resource: web site
Target audience: General, Women
Cost: Free access

This on line toolkit developed by Trish Williams for the Commonwealth Press Union is a good resource for any journalist or communicator, and one to keep in mind if your organisation hosts an interactive news site. It offers an overview of basic gender issues and sexist terms, statistics, and further gender resources. Williams, a media consultant, developed the tool because journalists play such an important role in forming society opinion. The toolkit includes brief exercises to help journalists reflect on their own stereotypes, alternatives to sexist terminology, and underlines the responsibility of media regarding gender issues.

http://www.cpu.org.uk/cpu-toolkits/gender_reportin
g/index.html

Sustainability in Telecommunication Through Gender & Social Equality

Developed by: ITU
Type of resource: MS Word files
Target audience: General, Trainers, Women
Cost: Free access

These Gender modules - which include manuals for workshop trainers and participants - were developed to fulfil the mandate of assisting ITU Member States in considering gender mainstreaming in policy and regulatory issues as well as in strategic management. Topics covered are Introduction to Regulation, Introduction to Access, Introduction to Licensing, Interconnection, Tariffs, Competition Policy, Strategic Change Management, Human Resources: A True Agent of Change.

http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/gender/Training_Resources
/index.html

Developed by: Commonwealth Press Union / Trish Williams
Type of resource: web site
Target audience: General, Women
Cost: Free access

This on line toolkit developed by Trish Williams for the Commonwealth Press Union is a good resource for any journalist or communicator, and one to keep in mind if your organisation hosts an interactive news site. It offers an overview of basic gender issues and sexist terms, statistics, and further gender resources. Williams, a media consultant, developed the tool because journalists play such an important role in forming society opinion. The toolkit includes brief exercises to help journalists reflect on their own stereotypes, alternatives to sexist terminology, and underlines the responsibility of media regarding gender issues.

http://www.cpu.org.uk/cpu-toolkits/gender_reportin
g/index.html

Developed by: APC / Karel Novotny
Type of resource: Word document
Target audience: General, Women
Cost: Free access

This paper compiles perspectives of civil society portal experiences and offers insights into design, news aggregation, keeping portals dynamic, tips for sustainability and what it means to build a community of users. The study details challenges and tips coming from practical experience.

http://www.itrainonline.org/itrainonline/english/c
s_portals.pdf

Developed by: Wise-Women
Type of resource: Web site and mailing lists
Target audience: General, Women
Cost: Free access

Wise-Women is "an international community and network dedicated to supporting women who work as, or aspire to becoming, Web designers, developers, and programmers." Membership is open to all, men as well as women. The Wise-Women Web site includes tutorials, articles and discussion lists on topics such as writing for the Web, promoting your site, Web programming and graphics.

http://www.wise-women.org/

Web Design - General

Building a Web Site Together: A Curriculum for a Team Web Site Building Workshop

Developed by: SA Women'sNet / SANGONeT / APC WNSP
Type of resource: Curriculum for facilitators
Target audience: Trainers, Women
Cost: Free access

"Building a Web Site Together - How the Women'sNet Site was Born" is a guide that presents how to develop a small site collectively, from start to finish. The workshop curriculum is organized into the following main sections: site planning, WWW (HTML) skills training and site structure concepts, building the site, site evaluation, and planning ongoing site development and maintenance.

http://www.womensnet.org.za/about/curric.htm