Sub-series SS13 - WITT Gender Awarness in Malawi (Africa)

Delivery agent and target audience: SIAST International Services

Overend participated in several aspects of a CIDA/ACCC Technical Education Reform project to address gender imbalance in Malawi. In addition to the reports and workshops below, she travelled in Malawi with a production crew conducting interviews and worked as a consultant on post-production services. They produced a video A World of Choices that was shown several times a day over the next year on the single television station that existed in Malawi.

Activity Report for the Malawi Technical Education Reform Project. August 12, 2002.
This report discusses Overend's day to day activities for the period from April 28 to May 12, 2002. The first week was spent with a video production crew from Canada and they travelled to various locations near Blantyre. The second week, she was on my own working with local educators to present 2 workshops, the first in Blantyre and the second in Llilongwe.

Workshop #1 - Retention of Women in Industrial and Technical Training Programs. For Technical teachers (post-secondary / tertiary) at Blantyre Polytechnic. May 7, 2002.
Overend prepared in advance and delivered a 3-hour workshop. The objectives were to assist participants to identify factors related to the retention of women in industrial and technical training programs and to link Malawi gender policy to strategies for change. She designed this workshop for Technical teachers, as requested, but participants included 12 personnel from Technical schools including management, program heads, instructors and counsellors.

Workshop #2 - Promotion of industrial and Technical Occupations to Girls. Teachers, Administrators and Guidance Counsellors (elementary / secondary) At TEVET Training Centre in Llilongwe. May 9, 2002.
Overend prepared and delivered a 6-hour workshop. The objectives were to assist the participants to identify factors contribute to low participation rates of girls in industrial and technical occupations and to link Malawi gender policy to direct intervention strategies for change aimed at girls in late primary and early secondary school settings.

WITT - Teveta Project. Power Point Presentation to SIAST staff and students (Regina)
Overend did not prepare this presentation, but included it here for informational purposes. Overend attended and responded to audience questions.

WITT Gender Awareness in Malawi - Training manual (draft). 2003
Drawing on the 2 pilot workshops in Malawi in May, Overend proceeded to develop a training program with more depth to assist teacher trainers with a tool to influence teachers in Malawi. By then, Overend had a better sense of the basic knowledge and scope of the audiences. The draft manual is broken down into 2 sections. One covers a 10-hour training program for Teacher Instructors. The other is a 6-hour workshop for teachers themselves and includes activity outlines and handouts. Overend have no information about follow-up activities with this project.