WIDE, VIDC and Red Cross invite to a workshop facilitated by Luis Lineo & Alexander Öze

Morning session for all genders (9:00-13:00)
Afternoon session for persons identifying as men (14:00-16:00)

Gender equality is a key factor for development and sustainability. Achieving gender equality requires everyone, not only women and girls but also men and boys as well as persons identifying as LGBTIQA+.
The main objective of the workshop (morning session) is to understand why the active involvement of men and boys for a gender just society is crucial and to enable participants to mobilize project partners for this purpose. Participants will learn from good practice examples such as the „Redefine“ project in the Caucasus region, implemented by MÄN. The facilitators will also zoom in on the important role of men & boys in promoting SRHR & menstrual hygiene based on an example from Lebanon. At the same time, the workshop will provide space for (self-)reflection on gender discrimination and masculinity norms and give insights on how destructive or toxic masculinities can be transformed.
The afternoon session is only for participants who identify as men. It will provide a safe, judgement-free space for a deeper understanding of different types of masculinities as well as vulnerabilities of men and for self-reflection on various gender roles as men on a personal and social level, e.g. as fathers, partners, etc. In this session MÄN’s methods for engaging men and boys in gender equality will be applied.

Participants
All persons who are interested in the topic and in particularly persons working in international cooperation (development cooperation and humanitarian aid) or similar fields on all levels (project management, organizational management, communications, advocacy and policy…).

Facilitators

Luis Lineo works at the MenEngage Europe Secretariat and at MÄN (Men for gender equality in Sweden). He has 20 years of work experience as facilitator and trainer on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), gender equality, men, boys, masculinity norms and violence prevention and has conducted trainings in Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America. Luis has worked with the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (RFSU) and between 2014 – 2018 he was the chair of MÄN. Born and raised in Ukraine with parents from Chile, he has lived, studied and worked in Sweden since the age of 12. He is the father of two children aged 10 and 15.

Alexander Öze is a Red Cross trainer and consultant for water, sanitation and hygiene projects in humanitarian and development settings in Sudan, Pakistan, Ethiopia and Lebanon. As these issues are highly gendered, he has a keen interest in the intersection of technical questions and social norms. He is an engineer by profession and has been working for the Austrian Red Cross since 2005. He is the father of three children.

Registration until October 31, 2024: wurzer@wide-netzwerk.at 
Limited number of participants (max. 20)
If you identify as man, we would like to kindly invite you to attend the afternoon session as well.

Contribution
Participation is free. We kindly ask you to let us know asap if you should be unable to attend the workshop after you have registered.

Welcome and opening by WIDE and VIDC

Janine Wurzer is working in international cooperation for more than 20 years; she has supported the design, implementation and monitoring of women’s and girls’ empowerment projects in many countries especially in Eastern Africa. Since 2016 she coordinates the WIDE network. She is experienced in facilitating gender trainings and engages for gender equality & diversity as an activist and mother.

Nadja Schuster is a sociologist, feminist and has been a gender expert at VIDC Global Dialogue since 2011, where she works on gender sensitization of all genders in the context of migration and on sexual & reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Engaging men & boys for gender justice has been a thematic focus of VIDC since 2011. Nadja coordinates also the feminist SRHR working group funded by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) and is editor-in-chief of the VIDC online magazine Spotlight. She loves her role as a mother of a 5-year-old son.

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