In its urge to keep on improving on the capacity of its staff, the management of COMINSUD has organized an internal training for all its office-based staff on Gender Mainstreaming 2.0.
The essence is to ensure that staff incorporate all aspects of Gender Mainstreaming 2.0 in their work. It should be recalled that COMINSUD’s activities cut across domains including; Protection, WASH, Health, General Food Distribution and Nutrition.
The key focus of the training was to enable staff understand the difference between Gender Mainstreaming and Gender Mainstreaming 2.0. It also focused on discussing key aspects of information, inclusion, participation and decision that are prominent with the new concept.
COMINSUD’s Protection Officer, Mukete Palmer and Social Counselor, Atekwana Vivian guided the presentations. They came out with the fact that there is a slight difference between the two related concepts. Gender Mainstreaming 2.0 is an advanced approach to Gender Mainstreaming that goes beyond the basic integration of gender considerations and seeks to challenge and transform actions with the underlying power dynamics and gender inequalities.
Gender Mainstreaming 2.0 is an emerging approach under Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, which is proposed as a continuous more collaborative process of translating broad policy commitments into actionable shifts in policy implementation that are different from traditional models of global development.
The importance of Gender Mainstreaming cannot be overlooked in development work as it ensures that policy-making is of higher quality with a greater relevance for society, because it makes policies respond more effectively to the needs of all citizens – women and men, girls and boys despite their gender identities.
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