Grassroots Women’s Organisations

Capacity Building on Gender Mainstreaming by Grassroots Women’s Organisations

Objectives

• To suggest a more advanced gender mainstreaming checklist as a new analytical framework and tool in making and evaluating public policies
• To change the discourse on care giving, both unpaid and paid, and to recognise its social and economic value and its contribution to our society
• To build the capacity of grassroots women’s groups

Project Investigator

• Dr Celia Chan, Department of Social Work and Social Administration

Collaborators

• Hong Kong Women Coalition on Equal Opportunities
• Hong Kong Federation of Women’s Centres

Target Sectors

• Member organisations of Hong Kong Women’s Coalition on Equal Opportunities
• Grassroots women’s NGOs, civil society organisations and researchers

Expected Deliverables

• A research report on gender mainstreaming new tool
• Four Workshops, an international conference on gender mainstreaming; a workshop on unpaid work and carers and an international conference on care-giving
• Four-session art workshops for grassroots women to present their stories as unpaid or low-paid carers at home or in the job market
• A 5-day art exhibition to present the stories of carers
• A book on oral history on carers and a talk on the book
• Lobbying the Women’s Commission

Project Website