New FAO online policy-makers course on gender and food security

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

http:// https://www.genderaquafish.org/2014/10/17/new-fao-online-policy-makers-course-gender-food-security//elearning/#/elc/en/course/FG

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