COURSE SCHEDULE

Training Course Period: 12-23 May 2025

Online Phase: 12-19 May 2025
Face to Face Phase: 20-23 May 2025

COURSE OBJECTIVES

The course, in the long run, aims to promote gender and socially responsive on-ground resilience to climate change and disasters. The course aims to strengthen the technical and advocacy capacities of the participants in GESI.

COURSE CONTENTS

Module 1: Fundamentals of Gender and DRR (Online)

This foundational module covers important concepts, terminologies and frameworks on gender, disaster preparedness and humanitarian response necessary for understanding the gender and DRR inter-linkages in the first session. The second session breaks the myths around gender, which is often misunderstood in binary form. An intersectional approach is the foundation for understanding what are the different marginalized groups and how they are disproportionately affected by disasters. The final provides an overview of transformative approaches to achieve effective and sustainable disaster risk reduction and build climate resilience.

Session 1.1: Concepts and terminologies on gender, disaster preparedness and humanitarian response.
Session 1.2: Understanding the intersectional perspective.
Session 1.3: Gender Transformative Approaches

Learning outcomes: At the end of module 1, the participants will be able to understand key concepts for relevant to gender literacy, understand the interlinkages of gender with climate change and disasters and get a glimpse of gender transformative approaches relevant to preparedness and response.

Module 2: Enabling environment for mainstreaming gender in climate change and disaster risk reduction.

This module will pick the foundational threads in its first session and cover gender dimensions and key issues around GESI in different sectors. Understanding the different levels of risks borne by different sections is the important first step to building long-term resilience. The first session will also provide a snapshot of the global policy landscape and mandates at the interface of climate change, disasters and gender and key international policies on gender. The second session will focus on engendering climate change and disaster risk reduction policies and plans and how these global frameworks and mandates influence national-level planning processes and reporting.

Session 2.1: Sectoral linkages & global policy frameworks
Session 2.2: Mainstreaming gender in national policies and plans.

Learning outcomes: At the end of module 2, the participants will be able to identify key gender mandates in the existing climate and disaster international frameworks and identify mechanisms in which these global mandates impact domestic policies and planning.

Module 3: Disability-inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction

Session 3.1: Introduction to DiDRR
Session 3.2: Practical Approach to Inclusion

Module 4: Gender Mainstreaming Tools and Frameworks

Designing gender-responsive projects requires robust gender analysis and incorporating the results in the design of a project. This module will focus on the conventional and emerging tools for gender mainstreaming at different stages of a project cycle. The first session will cover critical elements of project design and gender action plans. This will be followed by tools for problem analysis, project preparation, and implementation. The final session will delve into monitoring and evaluation and cover indicators, best practices and key issues around reporting and verification. This module will conclude by extending the project-level mainstreaming to a programmatic perspective of gender mainstreaming.

Session 4.1: Gender responsive project planning preparation and design/ Gender Action Plan
Session 4.2: Tools and Frameworks for mainstreaming gender in different stages of a project cycle
Session 4.3: Gender-responsive monitoring and evaluation

Learning outcomes: At the end of module 3, the participants will be able to understand the importance of gender analysis, identify important tools and frameworks for mainstreaming gender in projects and be cognizant of key challenges in monitoring and evaluation of gender outputs.

Module 5: Gender-responsive Budgeting and Climate Finance

At a policy level, one of the most effective ways for ensuring GESI mainstreaming is to ensure more accountability in public finances flowing for development through gender-responsive budgeting. The session on gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) will delve into the fundamentals of public finance for meeting gender goals. It will break the myth that GRB is simply increasing budgets for gender programmes but a more responsive way of managing public funds going into development programmes for enhancing gender equality. The second session in the module provides an overview of global climate finance architecture and the gender mandates around them. It analyses the existing funding mechanisms with the gender lens and provides potential ways of engaging while accessing these funds.

Session 5.1: Fundamentals of GRB and progress so far in the Asian context
Session 5.2: Gender and climate finance.

Learning outcomes: At the end of module 4, the participants will be able to understand the role of GRB as a strategy for gender mainstreaming in national-level developmental action and understand the gender inclusion provisions in different climate financing mechanisms.

Module 6: Advocacy for upscaling gender in Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction

Mainstreaming GESI in climate change and disaster risk reduction policies, plans, strategies and projects requires active advocacy by different stakeholder groups. This module split into two sessions, will cover the importance of partnerships and networks, meaningful engagement of stakeholders, and developing changemakers for accelerating gender-responsive climate action. This module will also cover elements of stakeholder analysis and what constitutes meaningful participation of stakeholders. Through the sessions, the key foundation for advocacy will rest on proper communication, knowledge transfer and cooperation for capacity building.

Session 6.1: Partnerships and networking for gender in Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction – entry points for CSO engagement
Session 6.2: Changemakers – empowering men and women and good practices for GESI

Learning outcomes: At the end of module 5, the participants will under the importance of partnerships in advocating for mainstreaming GESI, the significant role of changemakers and identify the entry points in their areas or work for initiating gender mainstreaming.

How to Apply:

Interested individuals and organizations can register online at www.adpc.net/apply.

For more information about the course, you may also contact Apibarl Bunchongraksa at apibarl@adpc.net and telephone numbers +66 22980681 to 92 ext. 132.