Gender Seminar

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Community Name:	Ecuador
Country:	Ecuador
Volunteer(s) Name:	W Tanner
Volunteer(s) Homestate:	Georgia
Funds community contributed:	200
PPCP #:	518-330
Year of project approval:	2009
Projects started in Ecuador 2009 (6).
A Home for the Elderly, Build a Library, Build a Future, Gender Seminar, Marimba Dance Group Outfits, Milk for Kids, and Tourist Eco-Cabin
Other Projects in Ecuador (9).
A Home for the Elderly, Build a Library, Build a Future, Community Sanitation Project, First Aid Workshop, Gender Seminar, Marimba Dance Group Outfits, Milk for Kids, and Tourist Eco-Cabin
Other Projects by Volunteers from Georgia (12).
Assomada Solar Desalination Project, Atakpamé HIV/AIDS Run for World AIDS Day, Camp Latrines, Desol, Ecotourism Project Embera Indian Tribe Panama, Gender Seminar, Health Dispensary, High School Drafting Course, Kindergarten Building, Kivsharivka Youth Journalism Project II, Latrine Construction, Multimedia Room, and Women's Education and Business Center
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Mapped Projects around Ecuador (0).

Info about the Gender Seminar

The Gender and Development Committee (GAD) of Peace Corps Ecuador is a volunteer-lead organization that strives to remedy gender inequality in the country. With this mission in mind, the Gender Seminar will help Peace Corps volunteers work with their Ecuadorian counterparts to improve gender awareness. The conference provides a unique atmosphere in which volunteers and counterparts are able to have a beneficial cultural exchange regarding gender and how the roles of men and women affect community development. Volunteers and their counterparts will have the opportunity to collaborate and develop projects that are gender-sensitive.

The Gender Seminar is a two-day event with dual objectives. The first day’s objective is to discuss the meaning of gender through various gender awareness activities. The second day involves planning projects with a gender-focus using various case studies and a session in how to use the Gender Analysis Matrix (GAM) as a tool to help make Peace Corps volunteer/counterpart projects more gender-sensitive. The GAM assists the volunteer and counterpart in looking specifically at gender roles within a given community and how both women and men will be affected by a proposed development project.