THE GENDER COMPETENCE TOOLKIT
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Includes: ✓ The Five Dimensions of Gender Competence (PDF) ✓ Gender Competence Development Planner (PDF) The complete learning and practice package. Start with the practical guide to understand the framework, assess your gender competence, and identify where you want to grow. Then use the companion planner to apply your learning, reflect on your experiences, document your progress, and continue strengthening your practice over time. Ideal for practitioners who want both the framework and a structured tool for continuous professional development.
Includes: • The Five Dimensions of Gender Competence (PDF) A practical guide and workbook introducing the Gender Competence Framework, helping you assess your current practice, identify strengths and development areas, and create a focused professional development plan.
Understanding your practice is the first step. Developing it takes intention.
The Gender Competence Toolkit brings together two practical resources designed to help you assess, understand, and intentionally strengthen how you apply gender in your work.
Start with The Five Dimensions of Gender Competence, a practical guide and workbook built around the Gender Competence Framework by Pamela Kiambi. Then use The Gender Competence Development Planner to continue reflecting on your practice, documenting your learning, and developing your competence over time.
What's included?
✓ The Five Dimensions of Gender Competence
A practical guide and workbook that helps you explore five interconnected dimensions of gender competence, assess your current practice, plot your competence profile, identify priority growth areas, and build a focused 90-day development plan.
✓ The Gender Competence Development Planner
A companion reflection and development tool designed to help you set quarterly priorities, capture lessons from real work, document evidence of growth, and intentionally strengthen your practice over time.
Together, these resources will help you:
✓ Understand the five dimensions of gender competence
✓ Assess your current practice
✓ Identify your strengths and development priorities
✓ Build a focused development plan
✓ Apply reflection to your everyday work
✓ Track your learning and growth over time
Who is the toolkit for?
The toolkit is designed for gender practitioners, programme and project professionals, monitoring and evaluation practitioners, researchers, consultants, advocates, trainers, students, policy professionals, and others who want to strengthen how they apply gender in practice.
Why get the toolkit?
The guide helps you understand where you are and where you want to grow.
The planner helps you continue the work after the assessment and development plan are complete.
Together, they provide a practical structure for moving from reflection to intentional professional development.
Read. Assess. Reflect. Practise. Grow.
Get the complete Gender Competence Toolkit and begin strengthening your practice.