Gender or Sex: Who Cares?

Preface

In 2001, Ipas and Health & Development Networks (HDN) produced a training resource called Gender or Sex: Who Cares? Skills-building resource pack on gender and reproductive health for adolescents and youth workers (abbreviated as GoS in this document). The resource pack centres on a curriculum that examines how gender can affect adolescents' sexual and reproductive health. Although individual exercises from the curriculum can be incorporated into other training workshops and courses, Ipas and HDN recommend that all the GoS exercises be offered as a comprehensive workshop because they build upon one another.

These notes were developed for people who wish to train facilitators to carry out workshops based on the GoS curriculum. They contain ideas and materials that can be used for training-of-trainers (TOT) workshops, as well as materials that TOT trainees can incorporate into workshops for adolescents and youth workers based on Gender or Sex: Who Cares?. This document was first written for a TOT workshop organised by the AIDS Society of the Philippines, Ipas and HDN in Hanoi, Vietnam, in October 2002; it was subsequently revised, taking into account experience from that workshop.