TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Nunzio Soricaro
JAMBO Young Women Empowerment to Improve Quality of Youth Work and Volunteering in EU and Partner Countries is a Capacity Building project implemented by Lunaria, in partnership with Concordia France, Grenzenlos Austria, KVDA Kenya, UPA Uganda, and TYCEN Tanzania.
The project took place from the 1st of October 2014 to the 30th of September 2015 and was implemented thanks to the support of the Erasmus+ Program, within the Key Action 2.
The project aimed to empower youth social workers and provide them with new tools, to enable them to favor women's participation in international voluntary service projects.
The project contributed to explore gender issues in different societies, linking the deep-rooted analysis ran in the African countries on gender sensitivity to
the participation of young women and men in International Voluntary Service.
The project was structured as follows:
- Feasibility study in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
- Training course in Kenya on gender issues - Youth Meetings in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
- Training course in Uganda on project management - Implementation phase in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
- Training course in Italy (Training of Trainers)
Training course in Kenya: the training, targeted 27 participants from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania and 4 experts.
Training course in Uganda: the training, targeted 27 participants from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania and 4 experts.
Training course in Italy: the training saw the active involvement of 27 participants from Italy, France and Austria and 3 experts from Eastern Africa organizations who participated in the previous training courses.
Participants were youth workers and young people, who actively took part in all the actions implemented.
The project was a powerful tool to promote gender equity and enhance women's participation in IVS activities. It has been achieved by developing
concrete tools and working methods to tackle gender sensitivity and gender issues through non-formal education approaches.
All the activities had in common a horizontal methodology aimed to develop the cooperation and a bottom-up approach, starting from the needs analysis and the work developed by the youth workers and the young people involved in the process. For the entire duration of the project were applied methodologies based on non-formal education methods, so to stimulate the active participation, the self-reflection and creativity, and the ‘learning by doing’ process.
The three training courses accounted for "training in action" sessions to create the ground for peer-to-peer learning, to further develop some of the methods acquired, to give participants the chance to facilitate some of the activities.
Training in Kenya:
• to reflect on the role of men and women within the Eastern African countries involved in the project;
• to deepen the knowledge about leadership and to develop new skills to manage the gender-related conflict;
• to share good practices and projects in promoting gender equality;
• to share methodologies and tools in order to favor women empowerment in terms of leadership and soft-skills;
• to provide participants with different tools (PAR Participatory Action Research methodology - questionnaire - non-formal education working methods to actively involve a group) to organize and run the Youth Meetings taking place in February and March 2015.
Training in Uganda:
• to create a common ground of knowledge to work together;
• to share the youth meetings results and outcomes (mind maps, questionnaires);
• to share experiences and good practices on international IVS projects with a particular focus on gender equality;
• to provide participants with tools to design, lead and evaluate international IVS projects with a particular focus on gender equality (how to run a needs assessment, set up monitoring and evaluation system, visibility and budget);
• to “practice” how to conceive, design and write a project proposal;
• to provide participants with different non-formal education methods to run the following phases (Study Phase and Implementation Phase taking
place in May and July 2015).
Training in Italy:
• to create a common ground of knowledge about JAMBO project to work together (gender definition(s) – gender in family, society, and economy);
• to set the ground to deepen gender issues;
• to assess, capitalize and share the results of the project specifically concerning women empowerment in African countries;
• to experiment and asses, from the EU participants perspective, some of the working methods applied during the training in Kenya and Uganda;
• to give participants the chance to transfer and multiply the knowledge acquired;
• to share and exchange new ideas about new possible projects/actions.
Link toolkit: https://www.lunaria.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/JAMBO_Tool-Kit.pdf
I co-conceived the project and I was part of the pool of trainers throughout the entire project (feasibility visit, training in Kenya, Uganda and Italy) designing educational modules, introducing tools and methods and leading sessions.