Scaling up in Gender Analysis Workshop Consultant project brief for workshop facilitator Women s Health West, on behalf of the Preventing Violence Together Partnership, seeks a workshop facilitator for a private consultancy to design and deliver a workshop on applied gender analysis for local government and community health services. The workshop will explore the social, economic and political factors that shape the lives of women, girls, men and boys in the western metropolitan of Melbourne and build the skills of participants to integrate gender analysis tools into their work. Introduction The Preventing Violence Together partnership and action plan adopt a primary prevention approach to preventing men s violence against women. Primary prevention is a public health approach that aims to prevent violence from occurring in the first place. The primary prevention approach uses evidence based strategies that focus on changing the cultures that operate to make gender based violence acceptable. International research on violence against women compiled and analysed by VicHealth has revealed the unequal distribution of power and resources, along with rigid beliefs relating to gender roles and stereotypes as the most consistent factors present when violence against women occurs. These forms of gender inequality create a culture where women and men are not valued equally, which contributes to an environment where men s violence against women is excused, justified, and normalised. Gender analysis is critical to identifying and redressing gender inequality and developing primary prevention initiatives. Gender analysis is a method of revealing how gender norms, assumptions and expectations manifest in the structures, policies, plans and programs, services and budgets of an organisation, and whether they result in different outcomes and impacts for women and men, as well as particular groups of women and men. Background Women s Health West is the regional women s health service for the western metropolitan region of Melbourne. Since 2010, WHW has led a regional Preventing Violence Together partnership committed to undertaking health promotion action to redress gender inequality and men s violence against women. The workshop forum is being organised by a committee with representatives of the eighteen signatories to Preventing Violence Together: Western Region Action Plan to Prevent Violence Against Women.
Developed by and for community health services and local governments in the west, the Preventing Violence Together action plan enables coordinated action to progress the partner s work to prevent violence against women. Launched in December 2010, the action plan takes a primary prevention approach to preventing violence against women through redressing gender inequity. Its vision is to create communities, cultures and organisations that are non-violent, non-discriminatory, gender equitable and promote respectful relationships. In October 2012, the Preventing Violence Together partnership was awarded three year project funding from the Department of Justice for the implementation of the United project. United is a collaboratively developed project by all partner agencies. It builds on the regional action plan and seeks to develop and strengthen organisational capacity to embed sustainable, evidence-based strategies for the primary prevention of violence against women before it occurs through a broad range of strategies implemented within each partner agency. Strategies that have been undertaking during the United project include, Gender Equity Staff Attitudes Surveys, whole-of-organisations gender equity and prevention of violence against women policy statements, strategies, and action plan, gender equity tools and resources, and a prevention of violence against women training package. The United project is independently evaluated by the Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health, and Society. Project partners include all of Melbourne s western region local councils, community health services, primary care partnerships, the regional Centre Against Sexual Assault and the Indigenous Family Violence Action Group. Partners include: Brimbank City Council cohealth Department of Justice and Regulation Djerriwarrh Community Health Services HealthWest Partnership Hobsons Bay City Council Inner North West Primary Care Partnership ISIS Primary Care Maribyrnong City Council Melbourne City Council Melton City Council Moonee Valley City Council Victoria Police West CASA Western Integrated Family Violence Committee (WIFVC) West Metro Indigenous Family Violence Regional Action Group (IFVRAG) Women s Health West Wyndham City Council
Project aims and objectives The aim of this project is to build the capacity of the local government and community health sectors to apply gender analysis to their work. Methodology The workshop will include an introduction to gender analysis, a gender analysis of the western region of Melbourne, an introduction to gender equality indicators, and a practical capacity and skills building session on applying gender analysis in practice. The consultant will advise Women s Health West on relevant evidence-based tools for applying gender analysis that are transferable to health promotion practice in Victoria, and more specifically, local government and community health settings. The workshop must be tailored to ensure participants can apply the information in practice. It must be accessible for those who do not have a background in gender equity work, as well as up-skilling those who have experience working on gender equity and prevention of violence against women initiatives. Audience The workshop will target practitioners with gender equity or prevention of violence against women portfolios within partner agencies, as well as their colleagues who are interested in gender analysis. The workshop will also target team leaders and managers. Deliverables, timelines and budget The key deliverables associated of the consultancy are to: 1. Produce a session plan, facilitation notes, PowerPoint slides and training handout for a full day workshop that includes: A. Introduction to gender analysis: Gender analysis overview and its relevance to local government and community health services The major social, economic, and political indicators of gender inequality in the western region. This will include an examination and analysis of the most acute gaps, disparities, and constraints faced by women and men. The consultant will be required to support workshop participants to apply this to their work with the local government and community health setting Gender indicators and the relevant methods of measuring and analysing gender indicators
Practical examples of plans, programs and services that have and have not used gender analysis and gender indicators, and the associated impacts. B. Applied gender analysis A list of promising practice gender analysis tools and resources that are applicable to an Australian context. The consultant will be required to provide an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of each tool to guide practitioners to select the most applicable tools. Skill building relating to how to conduct a gender analysis on an organisational plan (e.g. a municipal public health and wellbeing plan) program or service Examples of indicators that are most applicable for municipal public health and wellbeing planning and integrated health promotion planning. The consultant will support participants to determine whether they can integrate these indicators into their existing monitoring and evaluation frameworks. 2. To support the workshop, the consultant will be required to produce an example and participant handout of a: o rationale for gender analysis o gender analysis of local government and community health planning and policy documents, such as the municipal public health and wellbeing plans. o gender indicators for municipal public health and wellbeing planning and integrated health promotion planning o what a gender indicator is, how to ensure its relevant and measures the plan, program or services goals and objectives o list of promising practice gender analysis tools and resources, and their associated strengths and weaknesses. 3. Deliver a one day gender analysis workshop in Melbourne s western region.
Tasks and timelines Tasks Who Completed by Recruitment of consultant WHW 28 July 11 August Development of memorandum of understanding WHW 12 August 2015 Initial meeting with WHW staff Consultant and WHW staff 14 Aug 2015 Meeting with local government and community health representatives First draft of workshop session plan, facilitation notes, PowerPoint slides and training handouts (as outlined in the deliverables) Consultant, WHW staff and Mid/late-August PVT partner staff from LG and CHS Consultant 15 Sept 2015 WHW to provide feedback on first draft Consultant 18 Sept 2015 Consultant to integrate feedback and provide final Consultant 29 Sept 2015 version of training and associated resources Meet with WHW staff Consultant and WHW staff 1 Oct 2015 Preparation and deliver of full day workshop Consultant 20 October 2015 Budget A total budget of $10,000 is available to develop and deliver the workshop and accompanying materials. This fee includes the development and delivery of five key deliverables, administration, editing support, travel costs and is inclusive of GST. Full payment made on the successful completion and delivery of the workshop. Personnel The consultant, in partnership with WHW health promotion staff, will develop the workshop and accompanying materials. This will primarily include health promotion workers, and where appropriate, the health promotion manager. The key contact for this project will be the health promotion worker. Assignment of copyright The consultant will be acknowledged as the author of the workshop. Women s Health West will own the copyright and intellectual property of the workshop materials developed via this consultancy.
Further information For queries about the project, please contact Health Promotion Worker, Linden Deathe at linden@whwest.org.au or (03) 9689 9588. Written applications marked confidential with a two-page overview detailing the approach and review methods you would undertake for this project, your current CV, budget totaling $10,000 (including GST) detailing cost per above listed tasks, and two examples of recent written work, need to submitted to the Health Promotion Managers at: hpmanager@whwest.org.au by 5 pm on Tuesday 11 August 2015.