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Training Materials: Resources for Women Trainers and Learners

This section - which is aimed at both trainers and end users - offers links to resources specifically targeted at women. The resources are divided into the following categories:

"Target audience" under each listing tells you whether the resource is aimed at end-users ("General"), end-users and trainers ("General and Trainers") or only at Trainers. Resources designated as aimed at trainers include, for example, workshop curricula, PowerPoint presentations and worksheets.

For additional resources which are not specifically women-focussed use the navigation panel on the left-hand side of this page.

This section was developed by South African Women'sNet and the APC Women's Networking Support Programme.


General women- and gender-related training resources

Multimedia Gender Training Kit

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


Preventing Violence Against Women

Developed by: MMTK
Type of resource: MS Word files
Target audience: General, Women, Information intermediaries
Cost: Free access

Three units on Preventing Violence Against Women from the ItrainOnline Multimedia Training Kit: Background, issues, and main trends; Identifying internet and other resources on Preventing Violence Against Women; Developing resource collections. These materials form a workshop training kit, which trainers can adapt for face-to-face training workshops in their own contexts.

http://www.itrainonline.org/itrainonline/mmtk/vaw.
shtml


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


Women-focussed ICTs resources by subject

Online Communities and Collaboration - General

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


Finding Information on the Internet - General

Finding Internet Resources on Preventing Violence Against Women

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

This workshop kit for trainers forms the basis of a training sessions on navigating online and offline information sources of resources on VAW. Part of the Multimedia Training Kit.

http://www.itrainonline.org/itrainonline/mmtk/VAW%
202.zip


Strategic Internet Use - Knowledge management

Building civil society portals: Reflections by practitioners

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


Strategic Internet Use - General

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Idea Book: Integrating Digital Tools Into Your Projects

Developed by: Peace Corps
Type of resource: PDF file
Target audience: General, Women
Cost: Free access

"This is a practical reference for all volunteers who would like to use radio, television, computers or other ICT in their work. After an overview of ICT and the Peace Corps, the book shares examples of Volunteer and community work with ICT by sector, with additional chapters addressing how women, girls, and youth in general are using (or can use) ICT to achieve their development goals."

http://www.peacecorps.gov/library/pdf/M0085_comple
te.pdf


Web Design - Online web design communities

Wise-Women

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


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