GAGA Global Action for Gender Awareness

“GAGA Global Action for Gender Awareness” is set to answer the needs of raising gender awareness and of empowering women and young girls in Europe and partner countries. The project aims to enhance gender equality and young women empowerment by providing youth workers, peer educators, local organizations and international NGOs, in EU and Partner countries, with new tools and methods, training schemes, pedagogical approaches, and curricula to raise awareness on gender-sensitive issues within the local communities and at international level.The project will last 23 months and involve: Lunaria–Italy, Asociatia Universitur–Romania, Equa–Spain, Concordia-France, UPA–Uganda, KVDA–Kenya, BVBP–Peru, Chiriboga–Ecuador, CSDS–Vietnam, GREAT–Indonesia.The set of combined actions, as capacity building activities and mobility actions, forecast includes:A1. Kick off meeting-KoM in Ecuador; A2. ITC: working methods and diagnostic in Uganda; A3. Meetings with youth workers and organizations-MYWsOs in all the involved countries; A4. Study Phase-SP in Italy; A5. ITC: pedagogical approach in youth work in Italy; A6. Practical Phase 1: local trainings targeted to young people-PP1 in all the involved countries; A7. Practical Phase 2: local raising awareness activities-PP2 in all the involved countries; A8. ITC: evaluation and assessment of methods in Vietnam; A9. Follow Up-FU in all the involved countries.During the project the consortium organizations will launch, test and implement tools and non-formal learning methods and new forms of practical training scheme and curricula to be applied in EU and partner countries to foster gender equality. The project foresees to achieve the following outcomes and results: creation of a synthetic global pedagogical approach to raise youth awareness on gender; creation, testing and final assessment of tools to globally enhance gender raising awareness action; upgrading of the methodological curricula on gender to be used globally; wide-spreading at global level of the raising awareness action; capacity building action of CSOs and creation of new actions; better recognition of youth work and its quality standards; networking empowerment, both at local and national level, as well as at global one; design of a new plan of action with local organizations in the four geographical areas.The following outputs and deliverables will be produced: Synthetic guideline on project management; Questionnaire for the diagnostic in EU and partner countries with a synthetic users guideline on how to use the questionnaire; Short country reports showing the needs, in terms of youth work, methods and tools to promote gender equality, with a Prezi presentation with the main outcomes; Handbook: main outcomes of the needs assessment, synthetic vision of the global pedagogical approach, First and Second Toolkit: agenda, activities, tools and new tools developed and assessed; LLeaflet in .pdf for the on line version and Prezi.