Start Date : 1 Sept 09   End Date : 15 Sept 09 Location: Mount Carmel Training Institute, Israel

UN-HABITAT is facilitating a training-for-trainers programme on gender and local governance in collaboration with the Mount Carmel Training Institute in Israel.  A total of 25 participants from local government training institutions from Africa, Asia and Latin America will attend the training.  Local governments have the potential to bring about transformative change to improve gender equality and ensure that women and men have equal say in how cities and municipalities are organised and managed.  This programme aims to help local governments to maximise that potential by improving their training programmes through the integration of gender perspectives.  In the local government context, this will help to strengthen urban planning and the provision of services, with the needs and priorities of men and women addressed more effectively and more equitably. The course comprises of the following modules:

• Introduction to gender training
• Participation of women in local government, and the role of quotas.
• Women/Gender in the Israeli society
• Women and land rights/housing
• Gender and urban planning
• Gender budgeting/Women and local government financing
• Women and local economic development
• Media and gender
• Women and the Urban Environment/Climate Change
• Violence against women/Safer cities