Gender Training Material
This manual is designed for the use of staff of non-governmental organisations(NGOs) who have some experience in running workshops or training courses, andfor experienced gender trainers. Its aim is to provide practical tools for the trainingof development workers who are in a position to influence the planning andimplementation of development and relief programmes at different levels. Whilethe manual offers an introduction to the basic concepts used in gender analysis andhow to apply them to practical work, the activities are not intended for awareness-raising for grassroots groups.We hope this will be a special contribution to the field of gender training. Therehas been a strong demand from the NGO sector for training materials of this kind.When Oxfam's Gender and Development Unit (now the Gender Team) wasestablished in 1985, training in gender awareness was the first and most urgentdemand from the field offices for its services. Over the past seven years Oxfamtrainers have carried out gender training in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, as wellas with staff in the UK headquarters through regularly-programmed Gender and Development and Gender and Communications courses. The demand is stillgrowing, from within and outside Oxfam.
We trust that this manual will be a helpful response to what is an encouraging growth of awareness in the NGO sector of thecentral importance of gender analysis in development and relief work.A distinctive feature of this manual is that it combines self-awareness work,through activities which address women's and men's self-awareness and genderawareness, with training in methods of gender analysis. We believe that self-awareness in relation to gender is central to training development and relief agency staff in the use of analytical tools. Awareness training addresses attitudes,perceptions and beliefs; unless people are sensitive to gender inequalities, genderanalysis training is unlikely in the long run to change planning and practice in development and relief agencies' work. We believe that unless people's emotionsare touched, and their practices in their personal lives are brought into thediscussion, there is a risk that gender awareness will remain merely an intellectualconstruct, and will be limited in its power to bring about meaningful social change
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