The Ministry of Economy teaches a course on Gender and Human Rights: Rethinking Concepts, Practices and Approaches for Social Change.

The initiative responds to an EU-funded technical cooperation facilitation project as part of commitments to support activities related to awareness-raising and training of Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development staff on issues related to gender equality and rights. Human beings.

Santo Domingo. Dominican Republic. (December 2023). The Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development, through its Directorate of Institutions for Planning and Development and Directorate of Human Resources, taught a course on Gender and Human Rights: Rethinking Concepts, Practices and Approaches for Social Change.

The initiative responds to the Technical Cooperation Facilitation Program funded by the European Union as part of commitments to support actions related to awareness and training of collaborators of the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development on issues related to gender equality. Gender and Human Rights.

The Gender and Human Rights course is part of the Ministry of Economy’s initiatives to promote and plan public policies with a gender perspective aimed at improving the lives of citizens in the regions. 30 MEPyD collaborators are trained in it.

Gender is a cultural and historical social construction and a gender perspective is a type of analysis that allows us to identify inequalities in power relations due to gender issues. It is a fundamental tool for eliminating inequality. General principles.

Ruben Volquez, Head of Training, Human Resources Directorate, and Carlos Campillo Salles, Head of Gender Division, Directorate of Institutional Planning and Development (DIBIT), gave the welcome address. Presence, at the same time, it motivated people to take advantage of the day because of its importance to provide tools to create more egalitarian and inclusive public policies based on the perspective of gender, human rights and intersectionality. The move comes within 16 days of commemorating the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the International Human Rights Day.

He informed that the training will be hybrid (in-person and virtual) and therefore educational books and videos will be published on the Ministry of Economy’s education platform.

In this sense, face-to-face time will be addressed in sessions facilitated by experts on the topics and through activities created on the Ministry of Economy’s virtual platform. Participation in virtuality is equally important and mandatory as attending in-person sessions.

Counselor Esperanza Suazo was the training coordinator. Course content establishes the following topics: gender, gender and socialization mechanisms, discrimination, stereotypes, gender intersectionality, prejudice, gender roles and gender relations, and the sexual division of labor. Gender perspective, principles of equality and equity, gender diversity, principles of equality, legislative and regulatory framework for equality and human rights.