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

training concepts to “real-world” situations, in order to encourage ownership of
the concepts learned.
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It is also important to consider who is delivering the message. Decision
makers may be more receptive to a message coming from a well-known expert
or high-profile presenter. For example you might want to have an intervention
from a former prime minister or a Nobel Prize winner.
8. Designing exercises
This manual provides a number of different exercises that you may want
to use in your training course on gender and climate change. However, these
exercises are merely intended as suggestions: you may choose to change them
slightly to adapt them to your own purposes, or indeed to create your own,
completely new exercises.
9. Prepare handouts and background reading materials
You will also find handouts in the manual that you can copy and
distribute in the course of your training. You may also want to consult some other
useful manuals on gender and climate change and case studies from different
countries, which are available on several websites. At the end of this manual you
will find an appendix with an annotated bibliography listing additional reading
material and useful websites. Information that is relevant to the context that the
participants operate in on a daily basis, whether locally, nationally or regionally,
will help the training sink in.
10. Evaluation
At the end of every training course, you should ask participants to
evaluate the training. The evaluation method can vary according to the length
of the training course. If you have delivered a very short training course (e.g., one
day), you could ask participants to take two coloured cards and to write down
on one “what I have learnt today”, and on the other “what I felt was missing
today”. After a longer training course, you may find it more useful to distribute a
questionnaire that has to be filled in by participants.
We would like to keep this manual up-to-date. Therefore we would
highly appreciate your feedback. Any comments about your experience with
using this manual, the usefulness of the different modules, handouts and exercises,
and information you missed should be sent to info@gender-climate.org.