Gender issues are in the mainstream of all our training activities.

The Gender and Non-Discrimination Programme has developed a strategy with which to mainstream gender not only in the Centre's training activities but also in its in-house working processes.

A  wide consultation took place in 2011 at the Turin Centre, which brought life to the 2012-15 Gender Result-Based Action Plan (GRBAP). Turin Centre Gender Focal Points and programme staff  identified measures and yearly targets to improve gender equality and the empowerment of women in three main areas: staffing, structure and substance.  The Gender Result-Based Action Plan is grounded in the ITC-ILO  Policy on Gender Equality and  Mainstreaming , reaffirming the Centre’s political commitment to reinforcing actions to successfully achieve gender equality mainstreaming.

The excerpt from the Gender Result-Based Action Plan provides an overview of some of the key measures and is supported by programme-specific targets designed to increase the inclusion of a gender perspective in training activities. Some programmes will focus on increasing women's participation in their training activities while other programmes will ensure that new manuals and modules are gender sensitive. All training programmes have been using the gender marker over the past year (a measure to assess the level of gender mainstreaming in their activities) and find it useful for the purposes of increasing the gender perspective. The gender marker as well as the end-of-course evaluation filled-out by participants will help training programmes to track progress and challenges relating to gender equality.

The Programme offers a wide range of training and consultancy services, covering the whole learning and capacity development cycle: participatory organizational audits, assessment of training needs and organizational capacity gaps, curriculum development, production of training and awareness-raising materials (including videos), on-line learning and information platforms, validation, adaptation to regional and national contexts, action planning, high-level inter-agency workshops, high-level expert meetings, training of trainers and facilitators, coaching and support for strategy implementation.

Specific areas of expertise:

• gender auditing, using participatory ILO methodology to stimulate organizational learning about how to mainstream gender effectively; identification of gender capacity gaps

• gender-sensitive organizational management and service provision (in both private and public sectors)
• pay equity: strategies and tools
• gender-responsive budgeting, a tool for equality mainstreaming in economic planning and financial management
• promoting equality and non-discrimination in the world of work: from theory to practice
• mainstreaming disability equality in the world of work
• management of development, PCM, development planning and new aid-delivery methods with a gender perspective
• work and family
• building capacity concerning gender equality, poverty eradication and employment promotion
• mainstreaming gender equality in the world of work: methodology, analysis and tools for integrating gender equality issues into all aspects of work (covering institutional capacity-building for gender equality bodies)
• social dialogue and gender, collective bargaining, negotiation skills for women, conciliation and mediation
• local development with a gender perspective.