| Short
Summary |
This issue of Links summarises experiences
shared and lessons learned at "Gender Mainstreaming Leadership
Workshop" held in Scotland for Oxfam staff. The workshop concluded
that mainstreaming gender is particularly tough because it requires
not just skills and experience, but also great commitment to change
attitudes and beliefs, and to overcome prejudices. The workshop had
two main outcomes. Firstly, workshop participants felt that Oxfam
could not expect gender to be mainstreamed at programme level if
Oxfam itself could not manage to mainstream gender in the workplace.
They thus developed recommendations for internal change in Oxfam,
several of which are now being implemented. Secondly, a global
gender equality leadership structure was established for Oxfam. The
newsletter describes these developments as well as presenting
experiences shared in the workshop on: conflict in Sierra Leone;
peace building in Rwanda; urban livelihoods in North India; coffee
production in the Dominican Republic; supporting lone parents in the
United Kingdom; and gender networking in East Asia. |
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