Aim:
To familiarise students with socio-economic factors which constrain or facilitate women and men’s meaningful participation in development at the household, community, national, and global levels.
Objectives:
- To enable students understand different gender concepts;
- To equip students with skills that will help them identify where gender interventions may be made in social and economic development activities and systems
- To enable students analyse the implications of significant gender differences for development planning and implementations.
Topics
- Introduction to Gender Concepts and Terminology
- Key Gender Concepts
- Terminology commonly used in Gender and Development
- Social Construction of Gender
- Theoretical Perspectives on Socialization
- Gender Davison of Labour
- Gender Theories and Their Relationships to Development
- A Brief background of their Relationship to Development
- Development of Feminism
- Diversification and Division: Feminism and Gender
- Brand of Feminism
- Historical development in Gender and Development Approach
- The meaning of Development
- Why Gender is a Development Issue
- Modernisation Theory
- Dependency Theory
- Women in Development (WID)
- Women and Development (WAD)
- Gender and Development (GAD)
- Gender mainstreaming
- Practical Gender Needs/Interests
- Strategic Needs/Interests
- Gender budgeting
- Definition of gender budgeting
- Background to gender budgeting
- Gender budgeting as part of gender mainstreaming
- Preparation of Gender-Sensitive Budgets
- Prerequisites for gender budgeting
- Stages for gender budgeting
- Tools for gender budgeting
- Gender budgeting at different levels
- Central government
- Sectoral/departmental
- Regional/local government
- Programme
- A gender budget pilot initiative
- Role of civil society in gender budgeting
- Case studies from:
- Civil society influencing macroeconomics policy from gender perspective
- Academics-international conferences, seminars, consultancy reports
- Gender as a human right issue
- A review of international, regional and national instruments pertaining to gender issues
- Human right and gender
- Gender and law
- Gender –Based violence
- Violence against women
- The Sociology-economic profile of women and men
- Definitions of poverty
- Measurement of poverty: The Poverty line
- Identifying the poor
- The feminization of poverty
- Theories of poverty
- Strategies to redress Gender-based poverty
- Gender sensitivity in development, policy and planning
- Planning
- Development Planning
- Past and present conceptualization of Development Planning
- Social planning
- The relationship between policy and planning
- Inequality, dependency and social planning
- Social policy and social change
- Gender sensitivity/insensitivity of past and present policies at national and Internationals levels
- Why gender planning
- The role of information in strategies to mainstream
- Gender issues in planning and policies
- Checklists on policy environment
- Methodology of an engendered social research
- Relationship between gender theory and practice
- Gender sensitive identification of research problems
- Gender analysis and gender analytical frameworks