GGCA Gender and Climate Change Training Manual - Women's ...

Notes for trainers
training:
A variety of different actors and stakeholders can be involved in the
• Representatives from the Ministry of Environment
• Representatives from the Ministry of Energy
• Representatives from the National Risk Reduction Platforms
• Representatives from other Ministries, such as Agriculture, Finance,
etc.
• The Ministry of Women’s Affairs/Gender
• Parliamentarians
• Researchers and academics
• United Nations institutions
• Civil society organizations
• Women’s groups
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All these representatives/entities carry out different activities, which
result in different training needs. To make your gender and climate change
training as successful as possible, you should take the following ten 1
steps into
consideration:
1. Target group
You must first define your target group. A training course designed for
members of a women’s activist group, who are not familiar with climate
change issues, would contain different topics from a training course aimed at
government officials working in the Ministry of Environment, who may conversely
never have heard of basic gender concepts or gender analysis tools. If previous
knowledge of potential target groups suggests they are too diverse, it is advisable
not to bring them together in one training course, as you may need to cover
too many different topics in detail, which may be less interesting for some
participants.
However, in some cases, a training course may provide a platform for an
exchange of knowledge (e.g., between gender experts and climate change
specialists in your country) and you may want to act more as a facilitator
of this knowledge-sharing process than as a trainer. You should also take into
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These steps have been adapted from Schneider, K. (2006). Manual for Training on Gender Responsive Budgeting. Eschborn,
Germany: GTZ.
Introduction