Women’s Leadership Mentoring
Toolkit
Module Six: DRR With a Gender Transformative Approach
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Contents
Purpose of this Toolkit 4
Target Audience 5
Contents of the Toolkit 6
This Toolkit and How to Use It 7
Consideration for each session 8
Session Format 8
Learning Objectives 8
Time 8
Materials Needed and Advance Preparation 9
Introduction 9
Steps 9
Closing 9
Facilitator Notes 10
Participant Handouts 10
Facilitator Resources 10
Reflective Practice 10
Gender Composition of Participant Groups 11
Facilitating Mixed-Sex Groups 11
Dealing with Difficult People 12
Managing Conflict 12
Session Materials 12
Essential for all sessions: 12
Session-specific materials may include: 13
Read the Toolkit 13
Prepare Materials 13
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Research Support Services 13
As Participants Arrive 13
Guidelines for facilitators 14
What is Gender Transformative Leadership? 14
Nominating a Facilitator and Facilitator Role and Responsibilities 14
The role of the facilitator will be to: 14
What is not expected of you as a facilitator: 15
What is expected of you as a facilitator 15
Facilitation Guidelines 15
Personal Preparation 16
Active Listening 17
Staying Neutral 17
Effective Questioning 17
Facilitating Group Discussions 18
What We Mean by Participatory 18
Monitoring And Evaluation 18
Final Thoughts 19
GENERAL NOTES: THE GENDER TRANSFORMATIVE APPROACH AND HOW THIS
FITS WITH GNDR 19
Sources and Suggested Reading 22
User Note
This GNDR Women’s Leadership Mentoring Toolkit has drawn largely upon J H Peigo, A
Gender-Transformative Leadership: A Participatory Toolkit for Health Workers.
The Global Network for Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR) is a
network of over 1,500 civil society organisations working together to strengthen the resilience
of people most at risk and prevent hazards from becoming disasters.
Please contact Liza Hernandez, Risk Driver Lead and Regional Lead for Americas and the
Caribbean ([email protected]) or Project Coordinator ([email protected]) for
more information.
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Exercise 6A: Reducing Risk Drivers in DRR through Gender
Transformation
Learning Objectives
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
● Identify successful strategies for future implementation, by learning specific examples
from fellow participants
● Understand how women leaders may apply gender transformative approaches to their
work in DRR, in order to address the 6 GNDR Drivers of Risk.
Identify specific strategies at community level to address some of these risks.
Time
1 hour 30 minutes
Materials Needed
● Participant Handout: Knowledge and Perceived Comfort/Competency Check
Pre-/Post-Test
● Annex: Answer Log for Knowledge and Perceptions of Comfort/Competency
Questions
● Participant Handout: Six Drivers of Risk (from GNDR 2020-25 Strategy)
Advance Preparation
● Ensure you are familiar with the 6 GNDR Risk Drivers and are prepared to answer
questions on how these may intersect with gender transformative approaches within
the modules.
● Ensure that participants have copies of the above handout on GNDR risk drivers.
● Ensure that participants have their action planning notes from previous modules to
hand.
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Facilitator Note
This final module in the Women’s Leadership Tooklit will:
● Bring together the learning and successful actions of participants so far
● Introduce the relevance of this in the broader context of the GNDR Six Drivers of
Risk
Participants will be encouraged to build upon the action plans drawn up during previous
modules and build further on this, to how they can connect this learning to the six drivers of
risk. The aim of this is to apply gender transformative strategies to bring about systemic
change at local level.
Steps
Opening (10 minutes)
1. Open by outlining the purpose of the session as detailed above.
2. Go on to remind participants of the 5 main topics that have been covered in the
Women’s Mentorship Toolkit to date: Gender Concepts - including gender bias; Leading
with Confidence; Negotiation, Networking, Violence and GBV - including harassment in
the workplace.
Sharing successful strategies
Group Discussion (30 minutes)
3. Now, ask for volunteers to share ways that they feel they are becoming better leaders, as
a result of their learning. Give each volunteer 3 minutes to speak guided by the following
questions.
a. What has been the one most useful action they have been able to implement - that
they would like to share with others? (This could be, for instance, in relation to
advocacy, tackling climate change or influencing organisational strategy.)
b. How have their leadership skills improved, such as when negotiating in DRR situations,
or in addressing gender bias or harassment in their workplace?
Identifying New Actions for Addressing the Six Drivers of Risk
Small Group work (30 minutes)
4. Split the main group into several break-out groups for further working on this subject.
Each group should nominate a facilitator.
5. Explain that in their smaller groups, they will discuss together in more depth, how their
learning can be used in future to address the GNDR six drivers of risk.
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Facilitator Note:
Looking ahead to the next 5 years, there are many existing and emerging threats and
challenges affecting the lives and livelihoods of people living in vulnerable situations with
whom our participants work. As well as natural hazards, these include climate change,
pandemics, economic and financial instability, terrorism and transnational criminal networks,
cyber fragility, geopolitical volatility, various forms of conflict and much more. Six
interconnected drivers of risk have been emphasised by GNDR members and stakeholders
for particular focus in the 2020-2025 strategy, “Local Leadership for Global Impact”.
6. The facilitator should use the note above and the participant’s handout as a guide to
remind the group of the GNDR drivers of risk: Climate Change; Conflict; Gender
Equality; Food and Water Insecurity; Urbanisation; Forced Displacement.
Ask your group members to each consider which of these various drivers are a priority for their
community, right now, with regards to DRR. Ask them to use the tool given below to plot their
ideas on how they might address some of these drivers of risk, given the learning they have
gained in this toolkit. For instance, how they would tackle the issues of climate change or
forced displacement by applying their learning in negotiation skills, communication,
addressing GBV/Harassment etc. Use the tool in the participant handout (below) to plot ideas
around this.
7. It might help to consider what they might do differently now, by applying the gender
transformative approach to:
a. Tackle these risk drivers as they most affect their communities? (Choose one or two
drivers that feel are most important to address.)
b. Encourage others to organise themselves to address these new strategies e.g.
encourage more women/men in the decision-making process, influence change
through advocacy etc.
8. After 30 minutes ask participants to reconvene to plenary and ask for volunteers to share
their best ideas with the larger group. Spend 15 minutes on this.
Closing (5 minutes)
In this final closing, encourage all participants to work further on these future actions and to
continue sharing with others as they move to achieve our common goal: their implementation
of a Gender Transformation Approach as women leaders in DRR.
9. Distribute the Participant Handout: Knowledge and Perceived Comfort/Competency
Pre-/Post-Test, recording their answers in the Answer Log for Knowledge and
Perceptions of Comfort/Competency Questions.
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Participant’s Handout: Tool for Plotting New Actions for Addressing the Six Drivers of Risk
Six Drivers of Risk Gender Concepts - Leading With Negotiation - Networking - Build Violence and GBV -
Bias in the workplace, Confidence - Strategies for women diverse and effective Violence and
lack of women Mentoring, improving networks, prioritising, harassment in the
leaders communication skills targeting workplace, in life
Climate Change
Conflict
Gender Equality
Food and Water
Insecurity
Urbanisation
Forced Displacement
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