NRM-LED
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Tanzania
From 6 to 8 April a Gender and Advocacy Training was
organised by NRM-LED at Kasulu District. All main project implementers – being NRM-LED staff and
selected staff of the LGAs (Local Government Authorities) the project works
with – joined the training.
Through interactive sessions, group works and role
plays, the participants were made aware of gender issues in general, and gender
issues in natural resources management in Tanzania in particular. In the design
of the NRM-LED project, gender specific indicators were included, such as
participation of women in decision making, and access to and control over
natural resources by women. But putting these things in practice requires the
appropriate knowledge and skills. Thus, the aim of the workshop was for project
implementers to acquire capacities on gender, so they can identify gender
challenges in their day to day activities, and explore ways to deal with these challenges.
This gender training was the first training of its kind to
be conducted by the project, and therefore played an important role in creating
awareness among the Project and Local Government staff. After the training some
of the participants declared that they can now see and plan things with 'gender
lenses'.
It was the first gender training, but it will not be the last, because
– as we all know – working on equal chances for women and men is not a one day
effort!
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