Graduation from a Gender Perspective

Gender Mainstreaming for Shiree Beneficiaries

Lesson Learning WorkshopBarisal, February 4-6, 2013

What are the main challenges to Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

that our female Shiree beneficiaries continue to face?

• Dowry/Early Marriage• Sexual Violence/Abuse• Sexual Harassment/Eve-

teasing• Division of Household tasks• Abandoned

Women/Female-headed households

• Intra-household differences of Poverty/Graduation

• Girls’ access to education: enrollment and graduation

• Women’s Lower job training opportunities

• Unequal Wages• Women’s Access to paid

work• Others?

Group Exercise

• 4 Groups with one Gender Topic Each: - Dowry/Early Marriage- Sexual Violence/Abuse/Harrassment/Eve-teasing - Access to Education/Job Market/Equal Wages/Business - Intra-HH differences of IGA/Graduation

• Discuss and Answer Questions:1) What are NGOs currently doing?2) Why does it continue? (Social structures, norms, attitudes, values, power

hierarchies)3) What can NGOs do differently?

Overarching theme: Powerbrokers! Male/Leader attitudes, Engagement of Men/Leaders/Communities in gender mainstreaming process

Open Discussion: What can NGOs do differently

in Gender Mainstreamingfor Gender-Equal Graduation?

How to change attitudes of powerbrokers and engage them in gender mainstreaming process?

Example: husbands, sons, male authorities, male religious leaders

Thank You!