25 July 2013, Ha Trung, Viet Nam – Farmers using a net to catch fish from a pond at their farm. Photo: FAO
To educate policy-makers and programme developers, FAO, with support from the European Commission and the Gender and Water Alliance has created a new online course on gender and food security.
Here is the link for the course
The course is free online; all it takes is your time and dedication. The 14 lessons are grouped into 3 units as follows:
Unit 1 Overview of gender concepts and principles
- Lesson 1.1 Closing the gender gap
- Lesson 1.2 Gender roles, gender discrimination and gender equality
- Lesson 1.3 Gender dimensions of food and nutrition security (FNS)
Unit 2 Gender in Food and nutrition security policy and legislation
- Lesson 2.1 International commitments on gender equality
- Lesson 2.2 Gender statistics for informing policy and legislation
- Lesson 2.3 Producing gender statistics
- Lesson 2.4 Formulating gender-responsive food and nutrition security (FNS) policies
- Lesson 2.5 Translating national food and nutrition security (FNS) policies into a gender-responsive plan of action.
- Lesson 2.6 Gender advocacy for food and nutrition security (FNS)
Unit 3 Gender in food and nutrition security programming
- Lesson 3.1 Conducting a gender analysis for programme design
- Lesson 3.2 Designing gender-responsive Food and Nutrition Security projects and programmes
- Lesson 3.3 Gender-sensitive monitoring and evaluation for Food and Nutrition Security
- Lesson 3.4 Gender and programme implementation
- Lesson 3.5 Addressing gender in organizations working on food and nutrition security