GTZ Strengthens Its Capacity on Gender Issues

On 26-27 August 2008, GTZ Headquarters organized a “Regional Workshop on Gender” at the Davis Hotel in Bangkok. The training was the first piloting case from the Headquarter aiming to strengthen GTZ’s gender focal persons on the GTZ’s Gender Strategic Plan which aims to ensure that “Women and men derive equal benefit from the development-policy contribution provided through technical cooperation and can participate in designing it.”

Bangkok was selected to be the training venue as it is located in the middle of Asia with well connected transportation and communication facilities. Ten of GTZ’s ASIA gender focal persons attended this workshop. They were from China, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Nepal, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. Before finishing the workshop, they formed up the “GTZ Asia Gender Network” and pledged to integrate and mainstream Gender Issues to all GTZ programs and projects in their countries. This pledge is certainly within the interests and commitment of their partners.