Course Overview

  WERHC is pleased to announce its innovative course entitled: Promoting Development through Effective and Transformative Gender Trainings: A Training of Facili-Trainers. WGI is an initiative geared towards building a critical mass of gender equality specialists around the globe, especially in Africa. Through WGI and other tailor-made courses, WERHC is poised to transform indigenous organizations into vibrant entities that deliver quality results in a timely and accountable manner.  This course which brings together a total of 30 participants from all over Africa, is tailor-made for trainers, potential trainers, Gender Focal Persons, staff of Gender Equality departments, gender equality advocates, mentors, team leaders, programme/project managers and coordinators, middle to senior executives with facilitating responsibilities and marketing managers.

This framework can serve as a monitoring tool to assess if a reproductive health programme is really women-centred and also sensitive to gender concerns. You may choose to use the framework for designing and planning your reproductive health programme or for determining if aspects of your programme are indeed women-centred as planned. You may also want to further expand on the framework to include other aspects or elements considered important in meeting women's health

Women Empowerment and Reproductive Health Centre (WERHC) is organizing a roundtable to mark the 2008 National Safe Motherhood Day. The roundtable will feature donors, UN agencies, government representatives including parliamentarians and selected NGOs.  There will be brief presentations followed by discussions/brainstorming on strategies towards speeding up the process of achieving MDGs 4, 5 and 6.