The IUCEA conducts a workshop on Gender and Youth

Gender mainstreaming is recognized today as a major issue on international human rights agenda and human centered development agenda. The mandate to mainstream gender into all development agenda is derived from the United Nations policy and programme activities in the 1997 Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). This was based on the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. 

The IUCEA adopted the Proceeding of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and is obliged to implement it in all its departments in both public and private universities through gender mainstreaming policies and strategies. It’s important that all institutions of higher learning adopt this strategy in their operational terms.

Gender mainstreaming was defined by ECOSOC in the 1997 Agreed Conclusion as; “…the process of assessing the implication for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programs in all areas at all levels”. It is a strategy for making women’s as well as men’s concerns and experiences an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in all political, economic and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated. The ultimate gaol is to achieve gender equality.

In this regard the IUCEA organized a workshop on Gender and Youth from 26th -27th January, 2010 at Kenya School of Monetary Studies, Nairobi.

The objective of the workshop was to create competence and raise consciousness for university delegates in the East African region through a better understanding of how gender perspectives are relevant to their responsibilities and work efforts in a university setting. The workshop was also intended to increase their insights in identifying practical ways those individuals and divisions can act in order to main-stream gender in their operations and by use of Information and Communication Technology

Participants of the Gender and Youth workshop, 26th-27th march January 2010