Unlearning Patriarchy: Expanding Impacts of Gender Training

As PRIA approached its 40^th Anniversary in February 2022, we co-convened conversations on several thematic areas in which PRIA has worked –

• Empowering civil society
• Decentralised community governance
• Making the gender leap
• Sustainable urban future
• Citizen participation
• Building a knowledge democracy

These dialogues seek answers to several urgent questions – towards building a robust and sustainable tomorrow, for our country and globally, and what PRIA needs to do to become future ready, and continue to contribute effectively in co-creating the future.
 
We had a Samvad conversation on Unlearning Patriarchy: Expanding Impacts of Gender Training on 28 September 2021, organised in partnership with UN Women, CYSD and Martha Farrell Foundation.
 
Focused training programmes on women’s equality in educational institutions and development agencies began in the early 1980s in India. Women’s leadership in male-dominated domains of governance and politics was further supported through intensive training in the late 1990s onwards.
 
While gender integration in budgeting and planning of development policies and programmes seems to have become commonplace, critical reflections of everyday attitudes, values and behaviours of women and men in gender training programmes have been somewhat limited. Despite a long and rich history of gender training in India and the region, societal impacts on promoting gender equality remain weak. Read more.
 
In this conversation we will be discussing:

• What lessons can be drawn from past approaches to gender training?
• How can larger efforts be coalesced to broaden impacts of gender training towards equality?

Click here for the webinar recording