Gender equality and inclusion

Adolescent Girls' consulation toolkit

The Adolescent Girls Consultations Toolkit aims to providing practical tools and tips for consulting with diverse adolescent girls, their families and their communities, for any type of programming. It is intended to lay a foundation to build a common understanding and coordinated approach to creating a participatory space to engage adolescents and adults in all their diversity and other key stakeholders on the aspirations, challenges, needs and priorities of Adolescent Girls and Young Women.

It includes three main components covering the entire consultations process:
i) general tips and techniques for preparing for consultations with adolescent girls, including adapting tools
ii) guidance on managing the consultation process, including managing inputs and facilitating team de-briefs
iii) a general overview of the data processing and analysis phase, as well as an initial community share-back process.

The toolkit is primarily intended to support development practitioners, government, civil society, technical staff (e.g., gender equality, education, health, protection, economic empowerment, monitoring and evaluation), as well as program and business development managers responsible for or supporting primary data collection and analysis exercises. The toolkit can be adapted for use in different contexts and during different processes, including program design, intersectional gender assessment as well as other sector assessments, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and research processes.

Architecture of Gender Transformative Programming

As part of our strategic framework, Plan International Canada is committed to achieving 100% gender aware or transformative programming in all its initiatives by 2022.

Achieving gender equality, promoting gender justice, realizing women and girls’ rights and fostering an inclusive society are core objectives of our work as an organization dedicated to child rights and equality for girls.

This programming and measurement framework forms the basis of our gender transformative programming to ensure shared ownership and understanding across programming staff and to provide a consistent and measurable approach across sectoral programs such as in education, health, climate change, economic empowerment etc.

Promoting Men’s Engagement Globally

While men’s engagement in early childhood development is gaining policy momentum, operationalization of these objectives will require consideration of the various barriers and obstacles that exist to men’s engagement in the care and development of young children, in different contexts.

This paper presents Plan International Canada and Promundo’s collective programmatic reflections and recommendations on promoting men’s engagement as equitable, nonviolent fathers and caregivers in children’s early lives.

Gender Equality Newsletter: Focus ‘n GE

Plan International Canada releases a bi-annual newsletter on a core topic highlighting different Plan International Canada supported projects around the world that work to advance gender equality. In each edition you will gain insight on how our gender equality team does their work through images, stories, impact data and more.

2020 – March, April

2019 – March, October

2018 – April, July, October

2017 – March, June, September, December

Gender Responsive Pedagogy and Teacher Training

This comprehensive teacher training pack developed by Plan International Canada provides an introduction to key gender-related issues and concepts in education, and then mainstreams gender considerations into teaching skills, including child-centered instructional methods, classroom management, lesson planning, positive discipline, evaluation and assessment and reflective practice.

SHOW: Gender Equality Guides

Plan International Canada’s under its Strengthening Health of Women and Children (SHOW) project developed several guides to help operationalize its gender equality strategies focusing on adolescent girls, women, men, religious leaders, and health professionals. Among these, the guides related to male engagement and religious leaders were jointly developed by Plan International Canada and Promundo.

• Gender-responsive MNCH/SRH Service Delivery
• Adolescent Friendly MNCH/SRH Service Delivery
• Promoting Gender Equality in MNCH/SRH Education: Guide for Capacity Building of Community Health Workers
• Women and Adolescent Girls’ Empowerment and Gender Equality (GE) in Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs): Engaging Women, Men, and Adolescent Girls and Boys (GE Guidance for MNCH/SRH Programs Incorporating VSLA in Support of Better MNCH/SRH Outcomes)
• Guidance Note on Male Engagement in Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health/Sexual and Reproductive Health
• MNCH/SRHR Advocacy Guidance Note: Male Engagement in Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health/Sexual and Reproductive Health
• Communications/SBCC Guidance Note: Male Engagement in Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health/Sexual and Reproductive Health
• Guidance Note: Working with Religious and Traditional Leaders to Promote Male Engagement in Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health/Sexual and Reproductive Health
• Fathers Club Manual: Engaging Men in Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health and in Sexual and Reproductive Health for the Multi-Country SHOW Program
• Assertiveness and Leadership Training for Female CHC Members