Where: Carmelite Centre, 56 Aungier St, Dublin 2.
When: 4th February 2020 from 9.30am to 4pm
The DSAI Gender Study group is pleased to announce our first learning event for 2020.
To confirm your attendance at this event please rsvp to carol.wrenn@trocaire.org
The following speakers are confirmed but if you would like to present on your own organisation’s work in this area please specify this when you register.
Speakers:
Dr Carol Wrenn is one of Trócaire’s Women’s Empowerment Advisors and will present on Trócaire’s “Masidama” approach: Masidama means “Thinking differently”. Through Masidama, Trócaire supports partner field officers and community facilitators to analyse the gendered social norms in their own contexts, reflect on their own personal beliefs and learn strategies to support communities to effect change so that both women and men have equal rights and opportunities throughout their lives. The approach specifically focuses on women’s access to and control over resources and women’s participation in decision making.
Bio: Dr. Carol Wrenn is Trócaire’s Women’s Empowerment Advisor, She holds a PhD in Anthropology from NUI Maynooth which focused on women’s participation in decision making structures in northern Odisha, India and she has 15 years’ experience working within the international development sector specifically on programming and policy related to women’s rights and gender equality.
Dr Paul Chadwick from University College London, will conduct an interactive workshop introducing participants to the core principles of the Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW), an approach refined by UCL’s Centre for Behaviour Change and speak about opportunities and barriers to using an approach such as this in ActionAid’s Women’s Rights Programme in Ethiopia, Kenya and Nepal.
Bio: Dr. Paul Chadwick is Associate Professor and Assistant Director of the UCL Centre for Behaviour Change where he works on the development of interdisciplinary approaches to research and practice in behaviour change. Paul has been at the forefront of developing, evaluating and disseminating evidence-based approaches to obesity and diabetes management in the UK and internationally and works on several large-scale trials of behaviour change interventions funded by the CDC and NIHR. He oversaw the development of the worlds first interdisciplinary MSc programme in Behaviour Change.