Report of the first workshop on development and application of gender indicators for monitoring the economic empowerment of women in Africa : Johannesburg,South Africa

Abstract

The workshop design was based on a participatory methodology with a view to eliciting the maximum contribution from participants already familiar with the major areas of the debate. This was a process workshop as opposed to the old-style of training workshops. Focused discussion sessions were interspersed with practical exercises and field visits and a minimum of lecture style presentations such as to generate original thought on a complex subject. Facilitators stressed that the object was to cover old ground as rapidly as possible and jointly overcome the conceptual and methodological difficulties in order to arrive at original ways of developing indicators appropriate to the current African context