Gender Equality through Peoples Initiative (GEPI) Project of USS arranged 2nd batch Gender Training for right holder supported by Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) at USS Head Office conference room from 18-19 November’2019. Md. Jomil, coordinator of Agriculture, M&E of USS was delivered welcome speech and inaugurated the training. There were participated 25 right holders (women 16, man 4, adolescent girls 3 and adolescent boys 2) and they took actively participations in the training.
Objective of the training:
• To increase knowledge about gender equality.
• Initiative can be taken of participants against society made discrimination between male and female at family and society.
• Participants will be able to take mutual responsibilities between male and female
• Men and boys are engaged in initiatives to prevent violence against women.
• Participants can be play role to reduce gender based violence in family and society.
The training was facilitated by Salma Akter, GDO of USS. Question and answer, group work, videos, pictorial presentation and memorable event sharing methods were used to make the sessions attractive and participatory in the training. In training discussed topic were sex and gender, socialization, patriarchy, gender discriminations, gender need, gender equality, equity, gender awareness, role of productive, reproductive and social role, position and condition of women in family & society at present, violence, type of violence, causes & effect of violence against women, mainstreaming of gender, women rights, human rights, basic rights, women empowerment, different law of women empowerment and Initiative to earning gender equality. The training was very interactive. All participants were committed to established gender equality through playing different productive & reproductive role at their family and society. A plan has made how we reduce gender inequality at family and our society.
After training the participants explain their opinion about the training. Sapna said, “We known about different subject so we will use it our personal life and society.” Dinesh also said, “If we use our personal life we will get a happy family’’. “We found out the types of torture against women in our family and society, we did not know and thought before the training- said Niti,’’ At last Md. Abdul Kuddus Sarker, education coordinator of USS was declared end of the training. Md. Jomil, coordinator of Agriculture, M&E of USS was also present at the training closing.
