𝐆.𝐀.𝐋.𝐒 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐄𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞

The 5-day Gender Action Learning Systems workshop which was attended by the Nature+ project partners in Mutare ended on a high note with participants fully equipped to implement and engage in an overdrive gender mainstreaming.

The workshop is being attended by participants from ADRA Mozambique, MICAIA, TSURO Trust, Canadian Foodgrains Bank, ADRA Kenya, World Renew Kenya and Government officials, saw participants being taken through the vision journey tool, interrogating the challenges and opportunities for participants to reach their visions.

The delegates were also taken through the family set up, looking at the linkages which leads to a happy family with a thorough household methodology aspect as a way of ensuring gender equality across.

Gender Action Learning Systems is a trending approach in gender mainstreaming, which is inclusive and bridges intersectional barriers in communities for example illiteracy.

The approach enables communities to have a better understanding of mainstreaming gender in the development. It is a participatory and sustainable tool in which participants do not only receive knowledge, but they create it.

After the 5-day training workshop, the delegates were equipped on different tools and capacitated to roll out similar training programs within their organizations and to the different communities in which projects are being implemented.

A community action plan which will be developed becomes the roadmap for an inclusive gender mainstreaming.

Through advocating gender inclusivity this will help to remove barriers and create gender equality and social inclusion and addresses the root causes of inequality and exclusion within communities.

GALS will help to increase access, decision making and participation of women in decision making and leadership positions. It will give communities a clear picture of what they hope to achieve in their communities and the journey to achieve that.