Tools: Training – CARE Gender Toolkit

Tools: Training Teams

Basic Concepts: Gender / Power

Name	Source	Description
Discussing Power and Women's Empowerment	CARE International - Uganda	Exercise to reflect on various types of power and how participants perceive power - its sources, types and influence on society.
Discussing Sexuality	CARE-SAA Toolkit	Introduction to WHO's circles of sexuality and reflection on the relationship between gender, sexuality and our work.
Gender Areas of Inquiry	CIGN	Framework developed by CI Gender Network for gender analysis. For each area listed, analysis teams must consider how agency, structures and relations interact to reinforce or transform gender inequality.
Gender Continuum	CARE-SAA Toolkit	Helps staff analyze their own approaches toward women's empowerment, across agency, structures and relations.
Gender Ideals	CARE-SAA Toolkit	Uses brainstorming, illustration (or in some cases sculpture modeling) to discuss what defines an ideal man, woman, boy or girl (structures, relations, agency).
Silent Power Exercise	Multiple	Exercise to reflect on power in our own lives and hot it may be possible to influence the balance of power in development settings.
Women's Empowerment Illustration	CARE-Strategic Impact Inquiry	Depict through pictures the concepts within CARE's women's empowerment framework.

Experiences: Gender / Power

Name	Source	Description
Appreciative Inquiry-Dialogues Valorisants	CARE International - Burundi (K McIlvaine)	Explores a person's experiences of positive change and aspirations to understand his/her stories of change /achievement (agency), in addition to the structures and relationships that have supported or raise barriers in these transformative experiences.
Daily Time Use	Multiple	Looks at what tasks and leisure time comprise men’s and women’s days (agency); and how gendered activities are valued, respected or awarded through income; the exercise can uncover gendered norms and attitudes about men’s/women’s work (structures).
Experiential Workshop on Power	CARE International - Ecuador	Explores how people experience power in order to raise self-awareness (agency). As part of the SII, CARE Ecuador used this methods for both healing as well as to collect information through play resources.
Fishbowl Exercise	CARE-SAA Toolkit	Exploration of participants' experiences, and perceptions about social issues.
Gender Socialization	Multiple	Looks at how boys vs. girls are socialized in terms of what skills, behaviors and perceptions they learn to adopt (agency), how they relate with others (relations) and the values that underlie socialization of children from birth to marriage (structures).
Life Histories-Timelines	CARE - Situational /UCP Analyses (B Bode)	Explores individual men’s and women’s actions, activities and attitudes across their life (agency), in addition to structural conditions and relationships that have shaped their opportunities, experiences and outlooks.

Discussing Assumptions / Values

Name	Source	Description
Discussing Sex	CARE International - ECARMU (T Klouda)	Exercise with participants to gain comfort speaking openly about sex and sexual pleasure, linking how gender and sexuality relate to our work.
Gender and Power Scenarios	CARE-SAA Toolkit	Reflection on power, social status, sexuality and discrimination.
Gender Equality Attitudes-Values Clarification	Promundo (G Barker, GEM Scale)	Gauges men’s (or women’s) attitudes about gender equality (agency). It can also then be used to understand the broader values and norms that drive attitudes (structures), as well as give a sense of the dynamics surrounding gender relations.
Mini-Exercises	CARE International - Uganda	Puzzles to get people thinking about gendered assumptions.

Facilitation / Analysis Training

Name	Source	Description
Critically Explore Foster and Challenge	CARE International - ECARMU (T Klouda)	Help staff uncover layers and perceptions about exclusion and inequality.
Facilitation Role-Play	CARE International - ECARMU (B Bode)	Practice exercise for staff to learn about good facilitation and teamwork.