Venue: SDPI, #3, UN Boulevard, Diplomatic Enclave-1, G-5, Islamabad, Pakistan
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (daily)
Workshop fee: Rs 4,000 |
 Introduction
Women, especially in the rural environment rely heavily on the natural environment. The increasing use of pesticides and other chemical inputs has made much of the environment poisonous with little to offer for sustenance. In addition, productive lands are being used for cash crops rather than for household food security. This means that women in the rural sector now face increasing difficulties fulfilling their social role as ‘care-givers'. The degradation of natural resources, therefore, inevitably transforms and even undermines basic livelihood patterns, making the situation of rural women difficult with an increase in workload, a decrease in income and a worsened state of health.
With rural to urban migration, the urban environment is facing a different type of crisis: The urban worker is pushed into the informal sector, where poor work conditions and low wage/piece rate scales prevail. The informal sector predominantly accounts for women's urban employment. While poor urban women are forced into low paid work under economic stress, they are often unable to access adequate food and clothing as these become more and more dear.
Hence, the present system of production and consumption in many instances provides no answer for sustainable development and increases rather than reduces gender inequality. In development interventions, national and international actors have rarely considered the potential impact on gender equality with an increase in gender gaps in access to resources - human, natural, and financial - as a common outcome. The workshop aims to bring forth an intensive grasp on the issues of poverty, deprivation and environmental degradation faced by women in Pakistan, both in the urban and rural sector.
Who should attend?
The workshop will benefit the public, private and NGO sector organizations.
Objectives
To enable the participants to:
- Know a brief history of women and development
- Understand issues of gender in economic development, distribution and inequality
- Learn how deprivation and environmental degradation is faced by women in Pakistan
- Understand the impact of migration ( from rural to urban areas ) in Pakistan
Methodology
It will be an interactive and participatory workshop comprising informal lectures, power point presentations, group exercises and case studies.
Contents
The workshop contents will comprise of the following three modules:
Session I
Introductions and guidelines for the workshop
Session II
Introduction to the workshop
(a) What is development?
(b) A brief history of women and development
(c) Productions systems; economic development in the post war period, actors and policies including Green Revolution. Issues of distribution and inequity; issues of gender within all this.
Session III
Solving Problems
- Development and environment
- Economic development: structural adjustment programs
- Issues of distribution and inequity; issues of gender within all this
Session IV
- Globalization and the WTO Agreements
- Genetic engineering and the environment
- Actors and factors (WTO Agreements especially those impacting the environment)
Session V
- Women and migration
- Informalization and flexibilization of work
- Specific analysis of particular sectors and case studies
- Practical issues facing women in Pakistan into the above context
Resource persons
Dr Azra Talat Saeed, B.Pharm from university of Karachi, MS Pharmacy from university of Utah; Ph.d Pharmacy from university of MN in Pharmacy; have taught in university of Karachi Women Studies for 7 years; Currently Convenor, Women and Environment Task Force, Asia Pacific Forum on Women Law and Development; Director, Roots for Equity, an NGO working on Globalization, Sustainable Agriculture, Women Workers, Child Labour and Education. Dr. Saba Gul Khattak , executive director, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, holds a PhD in political science. Dr. Khattak specializes in comparative politics and her research focuses upon the political economy of development, feminist and political theory with a focus on state theory. Specifically, she adopts a rights-based approach and concentrates upon women's issues in the context of labor and refugee rights, governance and regional peace and violence. She actively contributes to dialogues on these themes at different fora in Pakistan and abroad. Dr Khattak has provided regular policy advice on these issues to democratic governments in Pakistan.
Dr. Karin Astrid Siegmann earned her Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of Bonn Germany. She holds a Master of Economics from the University of Cologne, Germany. Her specialisations are the effects of globalisation on the various dimensions of gender equality. Research interests include feminist, development, and labour economics as well as innovative economics methodology. She has implemented empirical research in countries as diverse as Bangladesh, Niger and Indonesia. Before joining SDPI, she worked as a junior fellow at the Center for Development Research ( ZEF ) at the University of Bonn, Germany, and at the Südwind Institute for Economics and Ecumenism in Siegburg, Germany. There, her focus was on the sustainability of multinational corporations' activities as well as on the effects of international financial flows on development.
Deadline for registration
Completed Registration forms should reach the Senior Training Coordinator via fax or mail latest by 15 September 2004. The institute will confirm registration upon receipt of fee by a return fax. Please use a separate registration form for each nominee. Please note that seats are limited and applicants will be registered on a first come, first served basis. Registration will close if all the seats are taken up before the last date.
Discount
SDPI members are eligible for 7.5% discount. Organizations nomination five or more persons will be given 15% discount.
PEP partners and HRDN members are eligible for 15 percent discount. This concession would be available if two or more nominations are received. HRDN members should send their nominations through HRDN secretariat.
Withdrawal requests will be processed as under:
| 10 or more days before workshop |
Full refund |
| Nine to four days before workshop |
75 percent refund |
| Three days before workshop |
50 percent refund |
| Two or less days before workshop |
No refund |
Cancellation/Postponement
SDPI reserves the right to cancel or postpone the workshop if circumstances require. In such an event, SDPI will ensure that registered participants are informed as soon as possible. SDPI will also refund registration fees according to our refund procedures.
Award of certificates
Trainees successfully completing 85 percent of the workshop would be awarded certificates.
PEP partners and HRDN members are eligible for 15 percent discount. This concession would be available if two or more nominations are received. HRDN members should send their nominations through HRDN secretariat.
Training venue
The training workshop will be held at the SDPI, Islamabad
Time
9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (daily) Contact Person
For further details, please contact Senior Training Coordinator, Brig. (retd) Mohammad Yasin (yasin@sdpi.org) at tel. ++92-51-2278134 or fax: 92-51-2278135.
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