Course

Training in Gender Analysis & Gender Mainstreaming for Practitioners working in Conflict & Post Conflict Settings in Africa: 14th to 18th December 2026, Nairobi-Kenya & Online

This training is designed for practitioners working in recovery, protection, peacebuilding and humanitarian relief. This also includes project officers, programme managers, gender specialists and policy officers in UN Agencies, Intergovernmental Organizations, Civil Society Organizations and Government Institutions.

The training aims to strengthen participants’ capacity to conduct context-sensitive gender analysis and translate findings into gender-responsive and gender-transformative programmes, interventions and institutional practices in conflict and post-conflict settings.

Training Objectives

By the end of the training, participants will be able to:

  1. Explain key concepts relating to sex, gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender relations, gender analysis and gender mainstreaming.
  2. Identify gendered power relations, roles, responsibilities, needs, interests, vulnerabilities, capacities, and access to and control over resources.
  3. Apply appropriate gender analysis frameworks and tools in conflict and post-conflict contexts.
  4. Integrate gender analysis findings into programme needs assessments and design.
  5. Apply relevant international and regional frameworks as gender mainstreaming tools
  6. Apply the Principles of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women (CEDAW) into their programming
  7. Design gender-responsive and gender-transformative programmes that address identified gender inequalities and contribute to equity
  8. Integrate gender mainstreaming throughout the programme cycle, from assessment and design to implementation, monitoring, evaluation, learning, adaptation and reporting.
  9. Develop gender-responsive indicators, data collection approaches, Monitoring, Evaluation, Adaptation and Learning (MEAL) frameworks and budgets.

For detailed information on the training, the training prospectus and application form are accessible below:.

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