Upcoming WAGE Event
WAGE Approaches to Shifting Harmful Gender Norms: Insights and Findings from Grameen Foundation’s Gender and Power Dynamics Training
Socio-cultural norms heavily influence how human beings organize their lives, think about gender roles, and assign power, value, status, and privilege. It is well evidenced that patriarchal norms, which assign women and girls low societal status and value, form the basis of structural, relational, material, and personal barriers women face in fully participating in economic, political, and civic life. Within an economic empowerment context, women can experience these barriers in the form of limited influence in the use of household income and time poverty due to heavy household workloads. In other instances, women experience less access to finance due to stereotypes of women as poor managers of money. They also have access to less educational and professional development opportunities. All these barriers greatly hinder a woman’s ability to start or grow a business. Further, women’s economic empowerment (WEE) can increase their risk of experiencing gender-based violence (GBV) at the hands of an intimate partner.
Please join the Women and Girls Empowered (WAGE) Global Consortium on June 22 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EST to learn about findings from our evaluation of Grameen Foundation’s Gender and Power Dynamics (GPD) training—a participatory and experiential learning approach that was implemented with WAGE partner staff to shift harmful gender perspectives and behaviors that disempower women economically. GPD serves as a foundation for longer-term attitude and behavior change within WAGE’s integrated WEE and GBV programming. The discussion will contribute to WAGE learning agenda question 5: what are successful ways to design and implement women’s empowerment programs that apply the principles of a) do no harm/safeguarding; and b) diversity and inclusion.
The panel will be moderated by Muthoni Kamuyu-Ojuolo, WAGE Program Director, American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI), and will feature Awal Ahmed, Executive Director, RISE Ghana, Bobbi Gray, Senior Research Director, Grameen Foundation, and Amelia Kuklewicz, Vice President of Programs, Grameen Foundation. The panel will present evaluation findings, share local partner perspectives on organizational change resulting from the training, lessons learned from deploying the GPD training within an integrated program context, and implications of this approach for practitioners in the gender equality/women’s empowerment field. A facilitated Q&A session will follow the presentations.
Please register here if you are interested in attending the virtual panel on June 22: https://americanbar.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lUI1bf4hToyFq4Vju6E64Q.
Please join the Women and Girls Empowered (WAGE) Global Consortium on June 22 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EST to learn about findings from our evaluation of Grameen Foundation’s Gender and Power Dynamics (GPD) training—a participatory and experiential learning approach that was implemented with WAGE partner staff to shift harmful gender perspectives and behaviors that disempower women economically. GPD serves as a foundation for longer-term attitude and behavior change within WAGE’s integrated WEE and GBV programming. The discussion will contribute to WAGE learning agenda question 5: what are successful ways to design and implement women’s empowerment programs that apply the principles of a) do no harm/safeguarding; and b) diversity and inclusion.
The panel will be moderated by Muthoni Kamuyu-Ojuolo, WAGE Program Director, American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI), and will feature Awal Ahmed, Executive Director, RISE Ghana, Bobbi Gray, Senior Research Director, Grameen Foundation, and Amelia Kuklewicz, Vice President of Programs, Grameen Foundation. The panel will present evaluation findings, share local partner perspectives on organizational change resulting from the training, lessons learned from deploying the GPD training within an integrated program context, and implications of this approach for practitioners in the gender equality/women’s empowerment field. A facilitated Q&A session will follow the presentations.
Please register here if you are interested in attending the virtual panel on June 22: https://americanbar.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lUI1bf4hToyFq4Vju6E64Q.
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