The training aims at enhancing skills of participants that are already working on gender justice, development and humanitarian areas and or church-related environments to:

• Increase the effectiveness of their work by getting acquainted with UN mechanisms such as the CEDAW Convention. Participation at the 74th CEDAW session in Geneva and workshops for drafting shadow reports during the training are the backbone of the training.
• Design local advocacy actions that reduce women and girls' vulnerability by adequately addressing issues of sexual and reproductive health and rights, using innovative methodologies such as the Theater of the Oppressed, from Augusto Boal.
• Explore successful strategies to relate to lay and religious leaders, authorities and other civil society actors.
• Strengthen their skills in affirming women’s rights from a faith perspective and getting acquainted with the opportunities, language and strategies to ensure progress in this area.

Department: Department for Theology and Public Witness

Program: Women in Church and Society

Language: English with interpretation in Spanish

Partners in the organization of the Training:

• The Lutheran World Federation (LWF)
• World Council of Churches (WCC)
• FinnChurchAid (FCA)
• Church of Sweden (CoS)
• Mission 21 (Evangelisches Missionswerk Basel)

LWF Women in Church and Society

UN CEDAW Convention

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Resources

Women Advocacy Handbook 3 April 2019 A composition of articles that aims to strengthen the churches and FBOs capacity to advocate for women’s human rights from a faith perspective. The Participation of Women in the Ordained Ministry and Leadership in LWF Member Churches 29 March 2017 A baseline assessment among LWF member churches carried forward in 2016 on the proportion of women in decision-making positions and in the ordained ministry. Department for Theology and Public Witness (until 2019) LWF Gender Justice Policy 15 February 2017 An LWF framework for inclusive and sustainable communities, churches and programs throughout the global communion Department for Theology and Public Witness (until 2019) Women on the Move postcards 14 March 2016 Series of six postcards shining the spotlight on the female heros of the Reformation movement Department for Theology and Public Witness (until 2019)