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Are you involved in Development Cooperation, International Cooperation, Peace building processes, or Relief and Rehabilitation Programmes? Then this training is meant for you. It increases your expertise and updates your knowledge and skills on how to address gender issues in result orientated aid delivery. After finishing this two-day training, you will know:

WHY the promotion of gender equality is a political mandate of the European Union and relevant for external actions of the EU.
WHAT is meant by gender mainstreaming.
WHEN you should address gender issues in the cycle of operations for external action.
WHICH tools and strategies are used for gender mainstreaming in the different aid modalities.
HOW to report on gender issues.

BIZZ Transition Workshops are tailor made participative in-company training workshops. They are especially designed to strengthening the capacities of companies for enhancing social innovations which are needed for a transition towards human-centred sustainable development.

The objectives of a BIZZ Transition workshop are:

The exchange of expertise on socially, ecologically and economically sound and sustainable business processes among the participants of the workshop
Knowledge building on policies, strategies and tools for ethical entrepreneurship and good corporate governance
Development of skills for transition management.

The target groups for BIZZ Transition Workshops are higher and middle management staff of business, members of worker’s councils and trade union groups in companies, directors, shareholders and other key stakeholders of companies. The ideal workshops is gender balanced. In case of male-dominated companies, a solution has to be found to ensure that at least 30% of the participants are knowledgeable women.

Through this workshop the participants will obtain:

Knowledge and insight on:
The causes of the global social crisis (poverty and gender gap), the care crisis, the financial crisis, the climate change, the ‘Peak Oil’ crisis and the long term challenges of this multiple crisis for business
the historical origins and paradigms of the current economic model and its advantages and disadvantages for business
international treaties, political commitments and indicators for globalizing human-centered sustainable development and their relevance for business.

b. Skills and tools for transition management at company level

c. Attitudes that enable them

To explore their role and responsibilities in the process of transition towards multi-dimensional business processes based on a people-planet-profit approach
To share their own opinions and visions on what it means to take consciously part in a process of transition towards a new historic era.

BIZZ Transition Workshops are participative and help companies to define their vision, strategy and goals for ethical entrepreneurship and corporate governance that fits in the new economic era of human-centered sustainable development.

The outcome of a BIZZ Transition Workshop is a company-owned transition plan, which may include:

A strategic vision and new goals for the future
A Performance Assessment Framework (PAF) with feasible company targets and indicators
A plan for a people-planet-profit budgeting process
A benchmark for relevant labels or social-ecological indicators to be included in the Annual Accounts of the company.

Companies who implement the Transition Plan will contribute to the eradication of poverty, to the promotion of the quality of life for all, and ecological sustainability; they will establish equitable and sustainable economic, financial, social en environmental relations among employees, clients, directors, shareholders, suppliers, banks, competitors and other stakeholders.

BIZZ Transition is a fascinating challenge for companies who are ready to convert their short term profit thinking into long term strategic thinking about how to contribute to human sustainable development. BIZZ Transition is a process of smart business, as it enhances the internal motivation and ‘good feelings’ of the employees, and generates goodwill among clients, suppliers, governments, and trade unions.

Transition management will increase the chances of companies to survive the current multiple crisis and will increase their opportunities in the new economic era of globalization of human-centered sustainable development.

In the parliament, at municipality level, in the board of schools or associations: everywhere a process of priority setting and choice making is realized through the process of budgeting. A gender budget analysis assesses the implications and impact of budgetary decisions for the position of men and women in all their diversity.

Through gender budget analysis we can evaluate the responsiveness of budget allocations to the differentiated needs and priorities of men and women, and we can reveal the reasons why men and women may respond differently to the same governmental policy or measures. Gender budget analysis also provides recommendations on how the budgetary process can contribute to gender equality, equal rights and opportunities for men and women. Gender budgeting offers important tools to improve the quality and effectiveness of budget plans and processes.

OQ Consulting offers the following training workshops on gender budgeting:

Course 1: Basic Gender Budget Training:

One-day workshop for 10 to 25 participants, which gives an introduction on basic concepts and rationale for gender budgeting, tools, strategies and examples. Through exercises the participants learn to apply several instruments of gender budgeting.

Course 2: Methods, tools and techniques for gender budgeting:

Two-day’s workshop for 10 to 25 participants. After the introduction on basic concepts and rationale for gender budgeting, the participants will apply strategies and instruments of gender budgeting to case studies, which are linked to their work. In the preparation phase for this workshop there will be a selection of case studies which are relevant for the work of the participants of the training workshop.

Course 3: Gender budgeting and Aid Effectiveness:

Two-day’s workshop for 10 to 25 participants on new aid modalities and the use of gender budget instruments to promote gender equality in general budget support and sector wide approaches in development cooperation.

The trainings are only delivered on request. Are you interested in organizing a gender budgeting training? Please contact OQ Consulting to discuss the possibilities.

The most effective trainings are tailor-made to the needs of the participants. OQ Consulting can help you in making an assessment of the training needs of your organisation, institution or company and to design a tailor-made training programme.

OQ Consulting works together with the Global Academy of Caring Economics. This academy is an open network platform and think tank for new economic approaches, which are people-centered and environmentally sound.

Thematic areas of the workshops are:

History of economic thinking and paradigms of current neo-liberal economic model
Caring Economics: How is life when the economic policy uses the model of caring economics?
The unpaid care sector
Basic Income
Participative gender budgeting with the capability approach

Workshops will be announced at the page of the Global Academy of Caring Economics.