294786
Responding to global issues of youth and gender inequality
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
: 12:30 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.
Throughout Peace Corps' 52 year history, Volunteers have worked closely with community members, especially women and girls, to support gender equality and improve access to resources. Volunteers receive pre-service training that includes language, cross culture and technical training. Volunteers are also introduced to an approach called Participatory Analysis for Community Action (PACA) that helps provide them with a gender lens for community analysis that is intended to spark reflection with partners about the role that gender plays in access to community resources. Since 2011, Peace Corps has been working to standardize and codify many of the training and intervention materials for Volunteers. This standardization has resulted in more quality-assured community-entry, gender and Camp GLOW model training. BE (boys empowerment) Camp and Student-Friendly Schools are newer programs for Peace Corps, but follow a model similar to that of Camp GLOW. These improvements include establishing fundamentals for enhanced camp quality, working with local partners to ensure the health and safety of campers, and identifying more outcome-driven monitoring and evaluation approaches.
Learning Areas:
Advocacy for health and health education
Assessment of individual and community needs for health education
Diversity and culture
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Learning Objectives:
Identify at least three tools of the gender-sensitive, participatory community analysis approach in which Peace Corps Volunteers are trained to conduct upon their entry in new communities.
Describe what the focus in/train up process is.
Presenting author's disclosure statement:Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have had many years of experience, domestically and internationally, working on issues of violence against youth and women and effective strategies to address this enormous challenge.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines,
and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed
in my presentation.
