Date:
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes:
Reconstruction and Peacebuilding
Gender talk hits town as parallel gender training and capacity workshops will be held at the same time in Gaborone and Mogoditshane. Johannesburg-based GEMSA and Gender Links will hold two different workshops at the Big 5 lodge in Mogoditshane. The workshop on gender, elections and media training would commence thirty minutes after the gender and local government and media workshop in the same premises.
According to GEMSA-Botswana facilitator, Keabonye Ntsabane, among things that would be discussed are key issues, which would ring up changes in gender and media issues, cross cutting issues on HIV/AIDS and gender violence and workplace policies and practices.
On Monday, a book titled 'At the coal-face, gender and local government in Botswana' will be launched.
On the other side of town, the Ministry of Agriculture would be holding a training and capacity building workshop at Maharaja conference centre. The Ministry is in the process of mainstreaming gender at all levels as per the recommendations of the sector's gender policy framework.
