ANNOUNCING: New Training Module on Gender Responsive Education in Emergencies

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Subject: ANNOUNCING: New Training Module on Gender Responsive Education in Emergencies

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ANNOUNCING: New Training Module on Gender Responsive Education in Emergencies

 


Dear INEE members,

The INEE Pocket Guide to Gender can be a helpful tool in capacity development for gender responsive education.

 

INEE, the INEE Gender Task Team, and the Global Education Cluster are pleased to announce the addition of a new training module on Gender Responsive Education to the Education in Emergencies Training Package.

 

The Gender Responsive Education in Emergencies Module complements the rest of the training package by promoting the importance and necessity of mainstreaming gender into education in emergency programs and policy decisions.  It provides tools for supporting integration and achieving quality and accessible education for all. The module consists of presentations, handouts, interactive dialogue sections and exercises to guide participants through the various steps of integrating gender in their education work. The module can be tailored for the beginner learner on gender or it can be used with advanced practitioners. 

 

The CORE key learning points include:

  • Identifying what a gender-responsive approach to education entails
  • Using a gender framework that builds from the IASC ADAPT and ACT Collectively tool
  • Creating gender-based strategies to support the INEE Minimum Standards
  • Reflecting on best practices and developing action plans to support gender mainstreaming efforts

The module was developed for INEE and the Global Education Cluster by Jessica Lenz, in consultation with members of the INEE Gender Task Team, the Education Cluster Working Group, and INEE Working Group on Minimum Standards and Network Tools. 

 

Would you like to explore the whole Education in Emergencies Training Package? The package contains the following 15 modules with presentations, facilitators' guides and exercises, available on the INEE Toolkit

 

0.   Guidance and Time Tabling

1.   The Rationale for Education in Emergencies

2.   INEE Minimum Standards Framework

3.   Technical Components for Education in Emergencies

4.   Education in Emergencies Coordination

5.   Action Planning and Follow-Up

6.   Assessment

7.   Programme Design, Monitoring and Evaluation

8.   Links Between Education and Other Sectors

9.   Contingency Planning

10.  Early Recovery and Transition

11.  Advocacy and Policy

12.  Risk Reduction

13.  Teaching and Learning

14.  Human Rights and Accountability

15.  Gender Responsive Education

16.  Inclusive Education

 

OTHER TRAINING AND CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES

 

E-learning Module on the INEE Minimum Standards: If you wish to learn more about the INEE Minimum Standards, the INEE e-learning module can help you. Employing a variety of resources and methods, the module uses the example of the Darfur refugee crisis to demonstrate how the INEE Minimum Standards can be used as a framework for designing quality education programmes in conflict-induced situations. 

 

Training Adaptations: The Education in Emergencies Training Package has already been used in many contexts, and the training materials have been adapted to suit the context and participants' needs for each training. The training adaptations are available on the INEE website. If you wish to share your training agenda and supporting materials, please contact minimumstandards@ineesite.org.

 

Tracking Trainings: We'd love to hear about any trainings and workshops on the INEE Minimum Standards or Education in Emergencies that you have facilitated or are planning. This information will help us compile the 2012 Annual Training and Capacity Development report. Please email the form and a short training/workshop description to minimumstandards@ineesite.org.

 

The INEE Gender Task Team works to support gender mainstreaming and attention to gender equality in and through education in emergencies, post-crisis and contexts of fragility. The Task Team collaboratively develops resources and tools, advocates for gender-aware programming, and facilitates training and capacity building to help practitioners respond to gender and education challenges faced during situations of crisis and recovery. To find out more go to the Gender Task Team webpage. To join email gendertt@ineesite.org.

 

For more information and questions on the Education in Emergencies Training Package and capacity development initiatives of INEE and the Education Cluster, please contact minimumstandards@ineesite.org and educationclusterunit@gmail.com.

 

Sincerely,

INEE Secretariat and the Education Cluster Unit

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Women Leaders Combating Child Marriage: Perspectives from Liberia & Pakistan

From: Vital Voices Global Partnership [mailto:info@vitalvoices.org]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 11:30 AM
To: Kathy Evans
Subject: Women Leaders Combating Child Marriage: Perspectives from Liberia & Pakistan

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Vital Voices, Girl Up and Girls Not Brides USA

Cordially invite you to a panel discussion:

Women Leaders Combating Child Marriage:
Perspectives from Liberia & Pakistan

Featuring: 

Rosana Schaack and Samar Minallah Khan

Vital Voices, Girl Up and Girls Not Brides: US Partnership to End Child Marriage are delighted to welcome these two extraordinary women leaders for an interactive panel discussion about their efforts to combat child marriage in their respective countries.

Friday, June 8, 2012

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM

(light breakfast served)

Location:

Vital Voices Global Partnership

1625 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20036

To RSVP by June 4:

Please email humanrights@vitalvoices.org

Watch live via Ustream

Rosana Schaack is the Founder and Executive Director of Touching Humanity In Need of Kindness (THINK) Inc., a non-governmental organization using innovative livelihood initiatives to help disenfranchised segments of society, especially children, adolescent girls and young women, empower themselves and achieve a better quality of life. She is also a consultant on gender and child protection for Samaritan’s Purse International Relief, for whom she previously served as Program Manager of Child Protection for six years.

Rosana has over 15 years of experience as a public health nurse and is passionately committed to human rights advocacy, with special expertise in prevention and response to gender-based violence and child protection. Ms. Schaack was a 2007 Humphrey Fellow and a 2008/2009 Recipient of the Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals from the University of Minnesota. She was a 2010 AGALI Fellow and is a delegate of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Women.

Samar Minallah Khan is a Pakistani documentary filmmaker and an anthropologist with an MPhil in Anthropology and Development from the University of Cambridge, UK. Samar is one of the first Pakistani women who has used film to give voices to the women of Pakistan. In Pakistan, Ms. Minallah runs a non-government organization called ‘Ethnomedia,’ which works in the fields of advocacy and awareness-raising. At Ethnomedia, she uses documentaries and other forms of media as tools for social change.Through different mediums of communication, she highlights human rights violations and challenges culturally-sanctioned forms of violence.She has traveled to rural and tribal areas to give a voice to women who are kept away from the eyes and influence of the outside world. She believes in the power of film to generate dialogue and understanding on issues that are otherwise invisible and unheard. By doing so, she has managed to give a new meaning to advocacy and documentary filmmaking in Pakistan. Her documentaries are being used for advocacy and awareness-raising by both government and non-government organizations and media in Pakistan. 

She has received several national and international awards for her work in the field of media. These include the Roberto Rossellini Award (2009); the  UNICEF/ABU/CASBAA Girl Child Rights Award (2005); the Perdita Huston Human Rights Activist Award (2007), and the Civic Courage Award (2009), presented to her by the Center for Civic Education, Pakistan. Finally, she was honored as a Cheng Lin Tein Fellow by the Asia Foundation in 2010. 

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Yammer Gender Group is the New GenderDev

For those of you haven’t seen the messages from Richard, our Posterous accounts (like GenderDev) will be going away. All IREX employees will be encouraged to start using Yammer.

If you want to email updates to our Yammer Gender Group, send your message to gender+irex.org@yammer.com. The same formula works for the other Communities of Practice as well (e.g., conflict+irex.org@yammer.com, etc.)

Thanks,

Randal

P.S. I’m testing the new email for the Yammer Gender Group with this message.

IREX Posterous Spaces Going Away!!

Dear Colleagues,

To focus our attention on Yammer, which has everything that Posterous has and more, the Posterous spaces will be going away very shortly (this week). Please check your Inbox for an introduction email from Yammer, if you did not already have a Yammer account under your irex.org email address.

Thanks and happy instant messaging on Yammer! Please email me with any questions at rfox@irex.org.

Thanks,

Richard

US National Committee for UN Women Conference: June 2, 2012

FYI, I'm thinking going to this.

2012 ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND MEMBER MEETING

Women Lead: 
Politics, Civil Society, and Peacebuilding Worldwide

Saturday, June 2, 2012
9 a.m. until  5 p.m.


Come to  town a day early to be a voice for UN Women on Capitol Hill!
 

George Washington University
Marvin Center
 800 21st Street NW,  Washington, DC  20052

Please join us for our 2012 Annual Conference as we gather national and international experts for a day-long conversation on women’s leadership.  The past 12 months have witnessed women stepping more forcefully into the public arena to assert and protect their rights, whether it was to protect pensions or demand democracy on the streets of Sri Lanka and Yemen, hold perpetrators of sexual violence accountable in the courts in the Balkans, or to include their voices in hearings on Capitol Hill.
 

This year's conference will focus on three areas: elected representation in the political arena, leading local organizations for change within civil society, and leadership in global post-conflict peacebuilding movements. Our distinguished speakers will highlight not only what work needs to be done for women to lead and participate, but also focus on areas where progress is being made.  Take a look at our conference agenda and exciting group ofdistinguished speakers!
 

Come to town a day early to be a voice for UN Women on Capitol Hill!


The US National Committee for UN Women cordially invites you to "Human Rights are Women's Rights - A Morning on the Hill," USNC-UN Women’s 1st Congressional Education Day, on Friday, June 1, 2012 from 9 a.m. until 12 noon. The Congressional Education Day will include a breakfast reception and training on how to talk to Elected Officials and their staff, followed by visits to your elected official’s office.   Check back here in the next few weeks for more details.


 

REGISTER online now or download a mail-in registration form

Mail your registration payment to the USNC office at:  USNC-UN Women, 1120 20th Street NW, #720, Washington, DC  20036.   A complimentary box lunch will be provided to conference attendees and a networking reception will be held at the end of the conference.

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Women's Leadership in Post-Conflict Liberia: My Journey

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The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, The Angie Brooks International Centre for Womens Empowerment, Leadership Development, International Peace and Security, and the African Women Development Fund present:

 

Women’s Leadership in Post-Conflict Liberia: My Journey

With Author Olubanke King-Akerele and

Special Keynote Address from President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

(via video-conference)

 

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

from 10:00am-12:00pm

6th Floor Flom Auditorium

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

 

Women’s Leadership in Post-Conflict Liberia: My Journey traces former Liberian Minister of Foreign Affairs Olubanke King-Akerele’s professional journey from her service as a young technocrat in the late 1960s through her 24 years of international service, with special attention paid to her public service from 2006-2010. She shares both self-reflections and lessons learned, addressing both the challenges faced during post-conflict reconstruction of Liberia as well as providing outlined responses to those challenges.

 

This event will feature an introductory keynote address via video-conference by H.E. Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf, President of the Republic of Liberia, followed with presentations by Author Olubanke King- Akerele and Emmett Dennis, President, University of Liberia. They will be joined by two full panels, one in Washington, DC and the other in Liberia, which will participate in the open dialogue discussion after the scheduled presentations. A book signing will take place following the event in the 6th floor atrium with light refreshments.

 

Please see full agenda and speakers list for details from our website by clicking HERE.

 

Please send all RSVPs to: alyson.lyons@wilsoncenter.org

 

Directions to the Wilson Center can be found here:  www.wilsoncenter.org/directions


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"Saving Face" - Screening & Conversation with Oscar-Winner Obaid-Chinoy - Event

United States Institute of Peace

 

"Saving Face" - a Special Screening and Conversation with Oscar-Winner Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy

May 22, 2012, 1:30pm-3:00pm EDT

Location:
U.S. Institute of Peace
2301 Constitution Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20037 | Directions

Please read: Important information for guests attending public events at USIP.

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In February 2012, Pakistan celebrated its first Oscar winner, the Karachi-born and raised Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, whose documentary "Saving Face" won the Academy Award for Documentary (Short Subject). The documentary follows two survivors of acid attacks, Zakia and Rukhsana, highlighting the challenges they face in recovery and in achieving justice. In March, Pakistan received a somber reminder of the depth of these challenges with the suicide of Fakhra Younas, a Pakistani woman grievously wounded in a May 2000 acid attack, for which her ex-husband was acquitted.

Join USIP for a special screening of "Saving Face," followed by a conversation with filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy on the documentary, and more broadly on the state of Pakistan's women, and how acid attack violence presents an opportunity for a greater role for women in addressing Pakistan's challenges.

Featuring:

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy
Emmy and Academy Award Winning Documentary Filmmaker; and
Co-Director, "Saving Face"

Kathleen Kuehnast, moderator
Director, Center for Gender and Peacebuilding
U.S. Institute of Peace

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Please contact Stephanie Flamenbaum with any questions about this event.


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Journalists should contact Allison Sturma at asturma@usip.org.


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INVITATION WASHINGTON DC: "Let me not die before my time": A panel discussion on domestic violence in West Africa, May 21

 

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THE INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE
Invites you to attend:

LET ME NOT DIE BEFORE MY TIME:
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN WEST AFRICA
Please join us for a discussion about the International Rescue Committee’s critical report on the global issue of domestic violence, focusing on West Africa.

Monday, May 21, 2012
Panel Discussion at 4:30 pm            
Cocktail Reception at 6:00 pm

 
1777 F Street, NW, 1st Floor

Washington, DC 20006

Space limited.          Please RSVP to Virginia Zuco by May 17th at:
212 551 2726 or Virginia.Zuco@rescue.org

 

Panelists:

 

George Rupp
President and CEO, International Rescue Committee

 

Pamela Shifman
Director, Initiatives for Girls and Women, NoVo Foundation

 

Heidi Lehmann
Director, Women’s Protection and Empowerment, International Rescue Committee

 

Moderator:

 

Susan Dentzer

Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs

 

Others to be confirmed.

 

Years after the end of war in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast, women continue to suffer violence at alarming levels and with shocking frequency. The primary threat to women’s lives in post-conflict West Africa is not strangers or men with guns, it is their husbands.  In these countries, more than 60% of women seeking assistance from the IRC after suffering violence and abuse are victims of domestic violence.

We invite you to join us in a discussion of how domestic violence can be better prioritized on the humanitarian agenda.  Representatives of the IRC-led Commission on Domestic Violence will talk about their recent trip to Sierra Leone and Liberia where they met with women, survivors, traditional leaders and key government officials, including President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.  As the United States deepens its commitment to women through the U.S. National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security, now is an important moment to discuss how domestic violence can be recognized as the public health crisis it is.



THE INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE
 (IRC) responds
to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. For over 75 years, we have offered lifesaving care and lifechanging assistance to refugees forced to flee from conflict or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, the IRC leads the way from harm to home.

 From Harm to Home | Rescue.org

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INVITATION: "Let me not die before my time": A panel discussion on domestic violence in West Africa, May 21


 

 

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THE INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE
Invites you to attend:

LET ME NOT DIE BEFORE MY TIME:
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN WEST AFRICA
Please join us for a discussion about the International Rescue Committee’s critical report on the global issue of domestic violence, focusing on West Africa.

Monday, May 21, 2012
Panel Discussion at 4:30 pm            
Cocktail
Reception at 6:00 pm

 
1777 F Street, NW, 1st Floor

Washington, DC 20006

Space limited.          Please RSVP to Virginia Zuco by May 17th at:
212 551 2726 or 
Virginia.Zuco@rescue.org

 

Panelists:

 

George Rupp
President and CEO, International Rescue Committee

 

Pamela Shifman
Director, Initiatives for Girls and Women, NoVo Foundation

 

Heidi Lehmann
Director, Women’s Protection and Empowerment, International Rescue Committee

 

Moderator:

 

Susan Dentzer

Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs

 

Others to be confirmed.

 

Years after the end of war in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast, women continue to suffer violence at alarming levels and with shocking frequency. The primary threat to women’s lives in post-conflict West Africa is not strangers or men with guns, it is their husbands.  In these countries, more than 60% of women seeking assistance from the IRC after suffering violence and abuse are victims of domestic violence.

We invite you to join us in a discussion of how domestic violence can be better prioritized on the humanitarian agenda.  Representatives of the IRC-led Commission on Domestic Violence will talk about their recent trip to Sierra Leone and Liberia where they met with women, survivors, traditional leaders and key government officials, including President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.  As the United States deepens its commitment to women through the U.S. National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security, now is an important moment to discuss how domestic violence can be recognized as the public health crisis it is.



THE INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. For over 75 years, we have offered lifesaving care and lifechanging assistance to refugees forced to flee from conflict or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, the IRC leads the way from harm to home.

  From Harm to Home | Rescue.org

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