Gender and Livelihoods: A Gender Transformative Approach
Enabling practitioners to introspect on their work and integrate a gender transformative approach in their programmes.
In the last two or three decades, government and non-governmental programmes have been targeting women and women’s groups as a strategy to meet their development goals. However, many of these programmes use a service delivery approach or an inclusion lens that address the immediate needs rather than the strategic needs of women.
Such programmes often leave existing power structures underlying the world of work unaltered and unchallenged. This results in incremental benefits to women without any substantial change in their overall status in family, community and market.
Development programmes sometimes also take an instrumentalist view of women’s role in economic development without investing sufficiently in women’s agency, voice and visibility. As a result, the programs often fall short of creating substantial transformative change on the ground.
Keeping these critical concerns in view, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru is offering a short course for development practitioners to address these issues and gaps, to enable practitioners to introspect on their work and integrate a gender transformative approach in their programmes.
The course will explore how gender inequalities shape and influence labour and livelihoods, and the measures required for livelihood interventions to become gender transformative.
The learning outcomes of the course are:
- To understand how gender and power across family, community, state and market institutions impact livelihood opportunities, choices, and outcomes.
- To use an intersectional approach to examine the relationship between gender and labour.
- To understand how to integrate gender lens in livelihoods programmes/interventions.
- Patriarchy and how it shapes the world of work.
- Women’s work: Histories and struggles
- Intersectionality-caste, class, gender (spectrum), sexuality, disability
- Gender, migration, work
- Gender and technology
- Globalisation, informalisation and feminisation of work
- Integrating a gender lens in livelihoods
This course will be offered to organisations/practitioners who work or intend to work in the domain of livelihoods. This includes individuals working in the livelihood programmnes of the Government and NGOs, consultants working in the livelihoods space, and journalists who write on these issues.
The participants should have a minimum of 2 years of work experience in the development sector.
The criteria are set keeping in mind the intent that the participant would be able to integrate the learnings from the course into their practice within their field and organisational contexts.
All applicants must possess a working knowledge of English.
Azim Premji University is committed to diversity and inclusion, and we encourage participants with different genders, disabilities and social backgrounds to apply.
Applicants will be shortlisted based on their written applications. The last date for submitting applications is 31 May 2024. The selected candidates will be informed by 7 June 2024.
Participants should expect an engaging and interactive six-day programme focused on perspective-building, reflection and participatory learning through group activities. Participants will receive a ‘Certificate of Participation’ from Azim Premji University upon attending all the sessions.
Click here for more details about the August 2024 batch.
Course Faculty
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Annapurna Neti
Annapurna has been working in the areas of SME financing, Microfinance, Financial Inclusion and Social Performance Management for 10 years. She has extensive field experience in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. She has worked with Small Industries Development Bank of India and has been a consultant to multiple organizations in the development sector.
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Deepa E
She has worked at Loyola Institute of Social Science Training and Research (LISSTAR), Loyola College, Chennai as Research Fellow, and as a Researcher for the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) funded research project on ‘Precarity and Covid’. She completed her doctoral research in Women’s Studies from Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS), Chennai, Tamil Nadu.…
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Manjula M
Manjula M works on the ecological, social and economic dimensions of rural livelihoods especially sustainable agriculture and conservation of natural resources.
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Nilanjana Sengupta
Nilanjana Sengupta has worked as an academic and practitioner in the space of Gender and Development for nearly two decades. Her work is interdisciplinary and located at the interface of gender studies and development studies. She has taught at various universities including Jadavpur University, Kolkata and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Tuljapur and Mumbai,…
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Richa Govil
Richa Govil is the Director of the School of Development at the University.Richa has worked for about 20 years in roles spanning research, business strategy, school education, financial inclusion, agriculture interventions, teaching and training.
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Rajesh Joseph
Rajesh has more than 14 years of experience in the field of urban poverty dealing with issues of unorganised labour, financial inclusion, social security, migration, job placement, training and skill enhancement in the informal sector of the economy. He was previously associated with MAYA in their livelihood initiative, initiating Self Help Groups, Cooperatives, and Workers’…
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Rosa Abraham
I am an economist interested in issues relating to India’s labour market. My research focuses on informal work and women’s employment with particular interest in issues at the intersection of labour statistics and women’s work. At the Centre for Sustainable Employment, I have been involved in the State of Working India reports and in the…