Training#
🌍 Upcoming Course (April 2025)#
The Geographic Considerations in Evaluating Women's Employment Opportunities course equips participants with a comprehensive understanding of how geographic factors impact women's access to employment and business opportunities. This course explores the intersection of geography and gender, highlighting how environmental characteristics can either enable or hinder women's empowerment.
Participants will engage with animated videos, quizzes and interactive content to learn about the innovative analytical framework developed by the World Bank Group (WBG), which assesses the supportiveness of environments for women's job access.
Additionally, the course introduces the Gender Enabling Environments Spatial Tool (GEEST), a cutting-edge tool designed to apply this framework in real-world scenarios. Key modules cover the framework's three main dimensions: Contextual, Accessibility and Place-Characterization, culminating in a final exam to evaluate participants' understanding and application of these concepts.
📢 The course is open to everyone and is available for enrollment on the WBG Institute. Stay tuned for updates!
🎓 Course Overview#
This virtual course provides insights into how geographic factors influence women's access to employment and business opportunities. Using the Geospatial Women's Employment Analytical Framework (GeoWEAF), the course explores how location-specific characteristics can either enable or hinder women's empowerment.
👥 Who Should Enroll?#
This course is ideal for urban planners, policymakers, gender specialists, researchers, students and social development professionals seeking to understand how geography and the environment influence women's access to employment. Whether you're shaping cities, developing gender-focused policies, conducting research or simply exploring the intersection of gender and geography, this course offers valuable insights and practical skills to address location-specific barriers to women's economic empowerment.
🎯 What You Will Learn#
📍 How infrastructure, frameworks and accessibility impact women’s employment and business opportunities.
🌍 The GeoWEAF framework and its role in analyzing employment opportunities.
⚖️ How geography and gender intersect to shape women’s economic empowerment globally.
🛠️ Gain insights into the Gender Enabling Environments Spatial Tool (GEEST) and the types of results it can produce.
🏛️ Course Format#
⏳ Duration: 2 hours
🎥 Includes: Interactive videos, knowledge checks and a final assessment
🏆 Certificate of completion upon successful completion
📅 Enrollment Details#
📆 Course Start Date: April 1st, 2025
⏳ Course End Date: May 16th, 2025
⏳ Enrollment Deadline: March 31st, 2025
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