September 12 , 2012 | MORE NEWS

BNPS–The World Fish Center, an international, nonprofit, research organization dedicated to reducing poverty and hunger by improving fisheries and aquaculture, invited Bangladesh Nari Progati Sangha (BNPS) to impart a two day training course on Gender Awareness for its CPWF Ganges Basin Development Challenge (BDC) Program’s Coordination and Change Enabling Project (G5) on September 11-12, 2012 at Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) of Bangladesh. The objective of the training was to promote gender as a priority concern in development and research planning and implementation and raise participants’ awareness on how gender plays a key role in the way that women and men participate in social, political and economic activities. This would include sensitization of the participants on development issues relating to gender mainstreaming and enhance their capacity to understand, analyze and utilize gender dimensions/considerations in development and research process.

The training was organized for the participants from all of the Ganges Basin Development Challenge (BDC) Program’s G1 to G4 partners whom G5 is coordinating. The total number of participants was 12 where 4 were female and 8 were male.