1. Bangladesh Public Administration Training Center
Savar , Dhaka
Module 12 : Child Rights and Gender Equality
Rokeya Fahmida, PhD
Director
BPATC, Savar,
Dhaka
2. Objective of the Module
• To sensitize the participants on the
vulnerabilities of the women and children and
orient them with the legal provisions to
protect the rights and empower the women
and children.
3. Module 12 : Child Rights and Gender
Equality
Topic
• Concept of Gender and Development
• Women and child rights (national and
international perspective convention on the
rights of the children and CEDAW)
• Initiatives of GOB for protecting women and
child rights and prevention of child marriage
• Creating Gender Friendly Working
Environment
4. Module 12 : Child Rights and Gender
Equality
• Prevention of Violence against women and
children
• Women in leadership for achieving equal
future
• Gender Responsive Budgeting
• National rehabilitations strategies of the street
children
5. Evaluation Methods
• 50 marks has been allocated for this module
• Method of evaluation /assessment will be
group exercise
7. Respected faculty and Dear participants
Good morning
It is a great pleasure for me to be here today with you
At first On behalf of BPATC I welcome you all to this center
I am going to brief you about the module 12 on Gender equality and child rights
As you know Gender inequality is a universal issue and Gender it has long-term
impacts in our society .
Thus, there is a great need to sensitize the society on gender issues so that there
would be no discrimination on the basis of gender.
Women and children are still fighting for their rights
Therefore, the main purpose of the module is to make you understand that
• Gender Equality is Not Just a Women’s Issue it is everyone’s issue”
• Gender equality is men issue too
8. Under this module we have 8 topics
So We will discuss those one by one later
About evaluation methods
• 50 marks has been allocated for this module
• Method of evaluation /assessment will be group exercise
We hope that you will enjoy the course and get benefited out of it.
That’s all about Module 12 dear participants.
Finally I wish your very pleasant stay at BPATC.
May you have a productive and successful training course indeed.
Thank you so much
9. Objective of the Module
Gender inequality is a universal issue and Gender it has long-term
impacts in our society .
Thus, there is a great need to sensitize the society on gender issues so
that there would be no discrimination on the basis of gender.
Women and children are still fighting for their rights
Therefore, the main purpose of the module is to make you understand
that
• Gender Equality is Not Just a Women’s Issue it is everyone’s issue”
• Gender equality is men issue too
• Recognize, and transform unfair behaviors toward men, women and
children is the main focus to introduce this issues in the course.
