Capacity building

- Engaging with religion, gender and violence: Implications for policy and practice

(with EC)

The aim of the webinar series ‘Engaging with religion, violence and gender: implications for policy and practice’ is to offer an overview of the role that various religions and religious actors can and are playing in violence, peace-building, gender-based violence, and gender equality. Supported by illustrative examples, discussions and interactive exercises, participants will be capacitated to better research, understand and engage with the religious environment and religious actors present in their context, especially when engaging on issues of peace-building, violence prevention and gender equality.

(with UNHCR Poland and University of Warsaw)

This training aims to introduce how to design and implement gender-sensitive social policy and programmes for marginalised forced migrant groups, and to develop basic gender analysis skills for ongoing projects/activities (gender analysis for project management). The training also aims to explain the nature of gender-based violence in forced migration as a form of discrimination against women and to identify the state’s obligations to prevent and counter it under the existing law.

Participants after attending the introductory training will be familiar with the basic principles for integrating gender perspective into their policy and programme design and implementation.

(with UNHCR and OIC)

Displacement emergencies are increasingly feminized, as seen through the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. The “OIC Women and Development Report 2021” highlights that women make up for more than half of the world’s refugees and internally displaced persons and they play a crucial role in responding to crises. The OIC has strong institutional basis, embedded within the OIC Plan of Action for Advancement of Women (OPAAW), to further highlight and address the issues women face in forced displacement and emergencies. Based on this, this session aims to:

  • – Highlight the challenges women face in conflict and emergencies, along forced migrant routes and in places of refuge;
  • – Discuss the importance of inclusive responses to forced displacement emergencies and the vital role of the OIC and its member states in supporting displaced women.

- Gender, reproductive and sexual health (MSc, Queen Margaret University, 2024 )

- Sexual health policy and programming in practice (MSc, Queen Margaret University, 2024)

- Feminist Political Ideas (BA, POLSIS, 2024)

- International Relations (BA, POLSIS, 2024)

- Postcolonial Britain: Race, Identity & Belonging (BA, POLSIS, 2024)

Guest lectures:

- Gender, Intersectionality and Forced Migration” (IOM Course on Migration and Displacement from Psychosocial Perspective in partnership with the University of Kurdistan, 2023)

- “Gender-based violence and Health: Responses to Forced Migration” at the PG module “Global Approaches to Gender and Health” and “Gender Sensitivity in Humanitarian Project Management” at the PG Project Design and Management module (Queen Margaret University, 2023)

- Gender, Religion and Intersectionality in Forced Displacement session in Globalization, International Migration and Citizenship module (University of Birmingham, 2023)

- Religion & SDG 5 – Muslim Perspective on Gender-based Violence (University of Zurich, 2021)

- Forced Migration, SGBV and COVID-19 session in Migration, Superdiversity, Policy and Practice module (University of Birmingham, 2020)

- Indicators of Integration and Theory of Change session in Migration, Superdiversity, Policy and Practice module (University of Birmingham, 2020)

- SGBV in Conflict session in Gender, World Politics Module (University of Birmingham, 2019)

- Forced Migration and Religion session in Migration, Superdiversity, Policy and Practice Module (University of Birmingham, 2019)

- Gender Mainstreaming in Humanitarian Action in Sex, death and (in)security module (University of Birmingham, 2019)