This workshop is designed for humanitarian and development actors to build a working knowledge of SOGIESC (sexual orientation and gender identity/expression and sex characteristics) issues and inclusion of sexual and gender minorities (aka LGBTIQ+ people) within programs. Content includes terminology and concepts, diversity of LGBTIQ+ lived experience, key development and humanitarian challenges and sexual and gender minority community strengths, existing policy and guidance for development and humanitarian professionals, and working on sexual and gender minority issues within rights-based, needs-based, and localisation frameworks.

Who Is This Training For?
This workshop is tailored for staff working in program management; business development; monitoring, evaluation and learning; reporting/compliance; and similar roles within international development and humanitarian organisations. No prior knowledge of sexual and gender minority issues is assumed.

Learning Outcomes
People who take this course will build competence in:
• using key terminology and concepts
• navigating the diversity within sexual and gender minorities and the issues they face in different country contexts
• understanding key development challenges and humanitarian needs commonly faced by sexual and gender minorities
• integrating SOGIESC concerns within rights-based development framework
• starting conversations with country offices, partners and communities and assessing starting points in contexts where there may be some resistance to working on sexual and gender minority issues
• applying a SOGIESC lens to reveal implicit bias and discrimination in program design
• addressing SOGIESC issues within an intersectional inclusion framework
• working on SOGIESC issues with local organisations and within a localisation approach
• respecting protection needs and do no harm consideration

Workshop cost:  $425.00 AUD per person + 10% GST 

Monday 19th April 2021 9.00am to 4.30pm
Tuesday 20th April 2021 9.00am to 4.30pm

To apply for our , please fill in our Expression of Interest form. People on the training waiting list and current practitioners are prioritised

If you are accepted into the workshop, you will be sent a confirmation letter and invoice by Monday 22nd March 2021.

This training program focuses on the inclusion of people with diverse SOGIESC in the project cycle. The training is based on co-design principles and is used in partnership with Edge Effect’s diverse SOGIESC Spectrum tool. The tool assists practitioners to assess where their organisational programs sits of the spectrum (from exploitative to transformative towards people with diverse SOGIESC ) and it guides practitioners to take a particular approach over another depending on different contexts. Each session builds on the last and follows the project cycle

Learning objectives include:

• Understanding the complexities of data collection and how you could develop better qualitative and quantitative data collection methods.

• What it means to co-design projects with LGBTIQ+ people. This includes assessing the need for co-design and building the conditions for meaningful participation.

• The do’s and don’ts of including people of diverse SOGIESC in project implementation. Including guidance on the inclusion and participation of LGBTIQ+ people / CSO’s as partners in project implementation.

• Humanitarian and international development practitioners explore which indicators actively ignore the impacts upon diverse SOGIESC people and communities, and what you can do to specifically capture how inclusive your program is.

• Identifying threats, determining vulnerabilities, identifying capacities and determining levels of risk.

By participating in this training you will be able to answer questions including:

• Accessibility: Do project activities lead to removal of barriers for people with diverse SOGIESC? Do practices address causes of exclusion? Do they lead to relevant actions? Are they supportive of an enabling environment? Will they be sustained?

• Attitude: Does the project recognise there are different people with different characteristics? Does it recognise that people within the diverseSOGIESC community face different issues? That they face different barriers? And that people with diverse SOGIESC have different strengths?

• Communication: Do all people with diverse SOGIESC understand the messages delivered through project activities? Are messages accessible by all? Are messages conveyed properly and in acceptable language? Will they lead to desired actions?

• Participation: Can (and do) people with diverse SOGIESC participate in all stages of the project, including decision- making? Do they have a voice? Are they active? Are their decisions accepted and incorporated?

Who is this training for?

• This program is tailored for staff working in program management; monitoring, evaluation and learning; reporting/compliance; and similar roles within international development and humanitarian organisations.

• No prior knowledge of diverse SOGIESC inclusion issues is assumed.

Delivery:

• This five week course will consist of weekly 1.5 hour webinars with accompanying assignments, activities and discussions throughout the duration of the course.

• Between self paced activities and weekly webinars, it is anticipated that participants will need to spend approximately 5 hours per week on the course in total.

• The course is currently offered in English only.

• Cost: $12000 AUD

To book in this staff development opportunity for your organisation, email training@edgeeffect.org

As Part of our Not In Kansas Anymore (NIKA) project funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Edge Effect has been commissioned to develop an online foundational humanitarian training program. The pilot will be held in May / June 2021 and will be available for organisations and sector practitioners from August 2021.