Step into history at the Rwandan Women’s Bonfire, an evening dedicated to honoring the incredible stories of Rwandan women who have left an enduring impact on our nation. From the poetic strength of Nyirarumaga to Kamaliza’s diverse legacy as a…
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Women in Waste Management
GIZ Rwanda/Burundi invites to a virtual Expert Exchange on Women in Waste Management. We will be discussing how to engage women in the waste sector, the topic of leadership and innovative strategies in waste management. Textile waste management, sustainable practices,…
Opening Event #I am remarkable
GIZ Rwanda/Burundi invites to the virtual Gender Month GIZ Rwanda/Burundi Opening Event in 2024! Do you sometimes struggle with sharing your achievements because you are afraid of sounding like you are bragging? Cultural and modesty norms as well as imposter syndrome…
Men at Work – Exchange Rwanda/Burundi
In the light of the upcoming Gender Month 2024, male colleagues are invited to the very first GIZ Rwanda/Burundi men@work exchange, offering a dialogue about work, gender equality and health in GIZ. Today, achieving gender equality requires everyone to be…
Feminist development policy and gender transformative approaches
Joint Event Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Rwanda and GIZ Rwanda’s Project Prevention of sexualised and gender-based violence Gender norms and stereotypes determine and shape our lives. They are anchored in legislation, in traditions, in formal and informal institutions, in religion, cultural…
Gender Month GIZ Rwanda/Burundi Opening Event
Dear colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to our Gender Month GIZ Rwanda/Burundi Opening Event in 2023! Do you sometimes struggle with sharing your achievements because you are afraid of sounding like you are bragging? Cultural and modesty…
Gender Week 2020
GIZ Rwanda conducted a Gender Week jointly with equal opportunities officer Sabine Guertner. A number of sessions took place throughout the week, e.g. on: Sexual misconduct at the workplace Female career development in GIZ Overcoming the unconscious bias with focus…
Gender Month “Changing Gender Roles in the Household”
GIZ Rwanda conducted a Gender Month Competition on the topic of “Changing Gender Roles in Household”. All programme teams had sessions and discussions on the topic of “Changing gender roles in Household” and each programme was asked to design a…
Achievements and Challenges of women in Rwanda
8 March | Virtual event |
Sessions, discussions and music
Addressing different attitudes towards gender roles and changing gender roles in the household – lively discussions, a creative competition and a final event around Gender Equality
For GIZ, the promotion of gender equality is not only a commitment, but a guiding principle and a quality feature of its work. GIZ Rwanda, through the One Mainstreaming Team is organizing a Gender Month, which is dedicated to reflect…
Internal Gender Mainstreaming Activities
In order to continue raising awareness on gender among GIZ staff in Rwanda, the One Mainstreaming team in collaboration with Peer Educators are organising different sessions on gender ( debates about whether or not affirmative action is something useful or…
Rwanda: Striving for gender equality in local planning processes
Country: Rwanda Project: Striving for gender equality in citizen-oriented participatory governance Submitted by: One Mainstreaming team (Anna Emil & Dieneke ter Huurne) and the Decentralisation and Good Governance programme (Dominique Habimana, Celine Mukamana, Tristan Powell) “Rwandan culture and patriarchal systems…
“Be bold for change: Be gender champion” GIZ Rwanda
Event documentation: Gender Equality remains high on the political agenda for development – in Rwanda, in Germany and internationally – and is a guiding principle and quality feature of our work. The event “Be bold for change: Be gender champion” brought…
GIZ Rwanda and GIZ Burundi: Five Questions to Gender Equality
When: 8 March 2016 Where: Kigali, Rwanda With: all colleagues of GIZ Rwanda and colleagues of GIZ Burundi currently residing in Kigali What: The event „Five Questions to Gender Equality“ creates space for reflection, discussion and exchange of ideas on…
Rwanda (Kigali) – The Role of Men in Realizing Gender Equality
Awareness raising activities on the role of men in achieving gender equality as a follow-up of the campaign “Proud of Her” initiated in 2014: Warm up questions Film/dokumentary projection Working in groups & discussing the following questions: According to CEDAW,…