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Active gender
research in CODESRIA dates back to 1983 and was started within
the framework of the Council’s mandate of strengthening gender
analysis in the work of African scholars. In 1996, the Gender
Programme became one of the core activities of the Council based
on the recommendation of a Gender Task Force that was set up in
1995 by a resolution of the 8th General Assembly of
members. Twinned with this main recommendation was the decision
on the mainstreaming of gender into the Council’s programmes.
The Gender Programme thus occupies a central position in the
work of CODESRIA as an activity cluster geared towards the
overall objective of growing gender knowledge through specific,
clearly targeted interventions, and as a broader programme chapeau
whose activities cut across the different elements
of the Council’s work. The main dimensions to the Programme are:
Research, research training, policy dialogue, publications and
dissemination.
The specific
objectives of the Gender Programme include the promotion of a
gender-transformative social science through a systematic
identification of new methodological concerns and instruments,
support for the formation of new paradigms of social research on
gender, and the implementation of new training regimens and
processes. The Programme also seeks to provide concrete
opportunities to a new generation of male and female scholars to
take creative approaches to gender-related research, to pose new
questions and to better avail themselves of the experiences of
senior scholars in this field. Furthermore, the Programme
encourages African researchers to engage in gender analysis as a
way of opening up questions concerning social change in diverse
African Societies. Finally, the Programme aims to promote a
better understanding of the interactions of gendered realities
among different social levels, in terms of their relationships
between household/domestic spheres, community life,
institutional arrangements, the public domain, social networks,
the state and transnational cultural and economic institutions
and flows.
In order to
realise the goals of the Programme, a combination of programme
tools were employed by the Council during the period 2000 to
2006. They include the creation of a gender-based multinational
working group, the convening of an annual Gender Institute as a
forum for research training (see the CODESRIA Programme on
Research Training, Grants and Fellowships for details), the
organisation of dedicated gender symposia for stock-taking and
agenda-setting, the facilitation of dedicated gender sessions
during major CODESRIA conferences such as the various 30th
anniversary conferences that were hosted and the triennial
General Assembly of members, and the production of a special
Gender Series within the CODESRIA Publications Programme.
Annual Gender
Symposium
The Council has, since 2002, been
organising international Gender symposia, all hosted in Cairo,
Egypt; the symposia are now organised on an annual basis.
- Cairo Gender Symposium, 2007
- Gender
Workshop CODESRIA-SIDA/SAREC 26th - 27th June 2007 (Dakar)
- CODESRIA - UNIFEM Workshop
Phase I
- CODESRIA - UNIFEM Workshop
Phase II
- Gender
Symposium 2006
- Cairo Gender Symposium, 2005
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