Training Course: "Youth 4 Gender Equality" in Bulgaria

Training Course: "Youth 4 Gender Equality"
10-18 June 2022 | Bansko, Bulgaria

The aim of the project is to increase the awareness of gender issues in youth work by providing youth workers practical and reflective skills in working with young people around gender equality.

In this regard, the specific objectives of the project for youth workers are:
To reflect on their understandings of sex and gender and to increase their comfort level with these issues.
To discover the main international commitments initiatives to gender equality.
To explore the causes and consequences of gender inequality.
To increase awareness of female/male stereotypes and gender biases in them. To initiate a discussion about some of the consequences of gender stereotyping.
To make youth workers reflect upon their own ideological and cultural background regarding gender role.
To recognize and understand gender-based violence as a severe form of gender discrimination and to take action to help prevent violence against women.
To discuss the role of youth workers to contribute to promoting the value of gender equality and building motivation of participants to act as gender equality advocates.
To be able to prepare an action plan for implementing concrete activities to promote gender equality at local level.