Publications

 

Training and gender

FORMUJER
Regional Programme to Strengthen the Vocational and Technical Training of Low-Income Women

Formujer Programme
A Training Policy Model for Enhancing Employability and gender equity: The Formujer Programme. 2004, 283 p.

 

 

FORMUJER Programma
Gender and competency-based training:Conceptual contributions, tools and applications. Montevideo: CINTERFOR/ILO, 2006.

 

 

FORMUJER Programme
Estrategia de comunicación: una herramienta para la gestión de políticas de formación y equidad. Communication strategy: a tool for managing training and equity policies. Montevideo: Cinterfor, 2003

 

 

 

Programa Regional Formujer
Incorporación de la perspectiva de género en la formación profesional: materiales didácticos. (Incorporating a gender perspective into vocational training: teaching material). Montevideo: Cinterfor, 2001

Despite their growing participation in the world of labour and the high educational levels they have reached, women continue to be affected by discrimination and inordinate demands limiting their access to employment and to personal and vocational development. This reality cannot be explained without reference to a complex process of differential social roles and hierarchical spaces and values based on sex. This gender differentiation conditions choices and places "reserved" for men and women in the personal, labour and professional fields, and establishes a sexual division of labour and occupational segmentation. Consequently, adopting a gender perspective and incorporating it into the analysis and design of employment and training policies is an essential requirement and a precondition for effectively ensuring equal opportunities for men ad women, and combating poverty. If training policies do not take an overall and organised attitude to question and deflate such social practices, they inevitably replicate and reinforce them.   In support of this attitude, the FORMUJER Regional Programme intends to develop a "resource kit" comprised of methodologies, strategies and teaching tools. The materials in this volume are along those lines. They have been devised for gender educational inputs for the training of teaching and technical staff at VTIs. They are aimed at developing basic knowledge and a common denominator for detecting and modifying gender signs in training policies and practices.

 

Guzmán, V.; Irigoin, M.
Training modules for employability and citizenship
(Training modules for employability and citizenship).
Montevideo: Cinterfor, 2000.

These "Modules" are part of a series of methodological materials that the FORMUJER Programme is developing to upgrade the quality and relevance of technical-vocational training in the region, and to include and/or strengthen gender equity so as to favour women’s participation. They incorporate an active methodology based on participation and dialogue, allowing for feedback and suggestions to enhance teaching materials. The authors’ proposal has been validated by regional co-ordinators, by the technical teams of the executing units in the four countries involved in the project, by their teaching, technical and managing personnel, and by the Technical Director of the scheme ‘Women in Development’, of the IDB Department of Social and Sustainable Development Programmes. Men/women teachers play a crucial role not only in the Modules’ implementation process but also in their future development, based on the experiences gathered in Argentina, Bolivia and Costa Rica, as well as in other countries of the region wishing to replicate the trials in their specific contexts. The present edition is to be considered as reference material to be adapted to the characteristics of the countries that use it.

 

 

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