Gender And Development
Course Content and Outline
Introduction (3CH)
- Key definitions
- The concept of gender
- Concept of development/economic development
- National gender policy (Uganda as a case study)
- Test questions
Gender awareness (3CH)
- The need for gender awareness
- Women in development in a historical perspectives
- Gender roles, the family and household
- The heterogeneity nature of household structures
- Test questions
Policy approaches to women in development in developing countries (4CH)
- Objectives of the policies
- Actors and actions of the stakeholders
- Obstacles in the implementation of policies
- Test questions.
The gender planning process and the implementation of planning practice (9CH)
- Gender planning
- Planning traditions or groups according to Safire
- Issues in gender planning
- Gender planning: Characteristics of a new planning traditions and its methodology
- Methodological tools and principles
- Gender planning procedures
Realities and norms of participatory development (6CH)
- The meaning of participatory development
- Objectives
- Basic principles of participatory development
- The position of women and men
NGOs as for gender and development (3CH)
- Approaches of NGO activities
- The social and political agenda of NGOs in gender issues
- Women ‘s organizations
- How to do women organize”/ Classification of women NGOs
Gender issues in agriculture (3CH)
- Sex stereotyping in development- planning and policy
- Resource constraints
- Development planning and gender issues in rural development
- Policy issues
Gender and the legal framework (6CH)
- Women and the law
- The global platform for actions and areas of concern
- Human rights of women
- Actors in women’s human rights
Critical/contentious issues for discussions (4CH)
- Women’s active participation in politics
- Domestic violence
- Bride wealth
- Property ownership
- Affirmation action and gender equality
MODE OF DELIVERY
- Lectures
- Practical assignments
- Field trips
- Documentaries
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND / OR EQUIPMENT
- Whiteboard and Markers
- Flip Charts
- LCD Projectors
- CDs, DVDs and Tapes