| Facilitating
assessment and mainstreaming processes with a focus on gender and
HIV/AIDS
Verona Groverman provides
long term support for gender mainstreaming related to policy and
strategy development, , planning, capacity building, and institutional
aspects. She also gives short term inputs to strengthen capacities
of the key personnel in gender and HIV/AIDS mainstreaming and to
improve the functioning of an organisation from a gender or HIV/AIDS
perspective using a specific model for organisational assessment.
She applies different participatory methods to involve people concerned
in these processes of change. (Read more in news)
Verona Groverman has been
involved in various gender and HIV/AIDS mainstreaming processes
in which she has built up a strong ability to address different
aspects of these complex processes. Facilitating such a process
requires a combination of good insight into the actors and factors
at stake, a clear focus, proper relation building, flexibility,
and: persistence – it takes time for results to become visible
and to have impact. She is specifically capable of motivating people
and involving different stakeholders in the process.
Relevant experiences
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2010 (April - December)
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Lead
facilitator of the Gender Equality Self-Assessment for Plan
Sierra Leone (May), Plan Cameroon (October)
and Plan Vietnam (November/December) (Plan Finland ),
Sierra Leone, Cameroon , Vietnam; Developing a Facilitator's Manual for Gender Equality Self Assessment
(Plan Finland/Plan International), (April, July) |
2009
(April-June)
2008
(May, June) |
Developing
the “Facilitator's Guide to support NGOs in assessing
their gender mainstreaming competence in the organisation and
programs” (for Oxfam Novib), The Netherlands |
| 2009 (January) |
Supporting
the International Department of the Norwegian Association
of Handicapped in the development of a gender strategy (NAD),
Norway |
| 2008 (April), 2007 (September, March) |
Facilitating
a self-assessment of HIV and AIDS competence using a gender
perspective in three countries: Malawi (Oxfam
Novib, The Hunger Project Malawi ), Kenya
(Oxfam Novib/PeaceNet), Uganda (Oxfam Novib/LABE).
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| 2007 (September) - 2008 (March) |
Support
to the development of the mission and mandate of the Programme
Women and Violence (Cordaid), The Netherlands |
| 2007 (November) |
Team leader of the Participatory Gender and Rights
Audit of the Kampala Office of
DanChurchAid (Political Space and HIV and AIDS Programmes) (DanChurchAid),
Uganda |
2006
(December) |
Designing and facilitating a training on Strengthening
Gender Mainstreaming in Environment and Energy. UNDP Environment
and Energy Group, UNDP Headquaters, New York
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2005
(June - Nov); 2004 (May, June,
Sept) |
Facilitator in gender mainstreaming process
of PLAN Netherlands (policy development and capacity building
with planning support respectively) (Plan NL), The Netherlands
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| 2004 (Febr.) |
Co-facilitator and resource person in the international
course on "Gender, Organisational Change, Agriculture
and leadership" (IAC). The Netherlands |
| 2003 (November) |
Facilitator in a workshop for local gender
focal points of NGOs in Africa, Asia and Latin
America on planning and strategizing for gender mainstreaming
(Vredeseilanden/VECO) Belgium |
| 2003 (June), 2002 Nov/Dec.) |
Planning and implementing gender mainstreaming
in S-E Asia (Vietnam); facilitator and co-ordinator in
the course 'Gender and Rural Transformation in Cambodia, Lao
PDR and Vietnam' for (semi)government institutes and universities.
(IAC/SEARCA), The Philippines); with a follow-up to coach and
to further build capacities of the main actors in the gender
mainstreaming process in Vietnam. |
| 2003 (April/May), 2002 October) |
Institutional support to the gender mainstreaming
process in the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation,
Egypt (macro-level policy development, strengthening gender
unit, capacity building). (APP), Egypt. |
| 2003 (Febr.), 2002 (Jan.), 2001 (Jan.) and 1999
(Jan.) |
Main resource person on gender and organisational
change and co-facilitator of the international course
"Gender, Organisational Change, Agriculture and Leadership"
(IAC/ETC). The Netherlands. |
| 2002 (March), 2001 (Nov.) |
Facilitator of three gender audits at ILO Headquarters,
Geneva (for GDTC and ILO). Switzerland. |
| 1997 - 2000 |
Involvement in the support project to institutes
(government, NGO, research and universities) in the Himalaya-Kush
Region aiming at gender mainstreaming in these organisations
(ICIMOD/DGIS), Nepal. As: Resource person/facilitator
on organisational development and gender in two courses (Sept.,
Dec. 1997, 1998); Monitoring and backstopping the gender mainstreaming
process in institutes in India, China, Nepal involved
in the project (April, 1999); Lead facilitator and resource
person in a refresher course on skills development of change
agents in institutes involved in the project (Nov. 1999); Facilitator
and coach of the local training team in the (third) course (Jan.,
April 2000). Development of a training manual covering the various
trainings undertaken 'Gender and organisational change. Training
Manual' (Sept-Oct.2000). |
| 2000 (July), 1999 (May-Oct.) |
Support to the development of a gender policy
of a Dutch NGO through a participatory review and formulation
process (Cordaid), the Netherlands. |
| 1998 (Febr.) |
Facilitator of a self-assessment workshop on organisational
change and gender integration in a Dutch NGO (Novib),
The Netherlands. |
| 1994 (Nov.), 1995 (Nov.) 1996 (Nov.) |
Co-organiser and leader of the international
course on "Gender in Policy Development for Sustainable
Land Use" (IAC/ETC), The Netherlands. |
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