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TARGET Partnership: Transatlantic Applied Research in Gender Equity Training

What is going on in the international policy arena?
How are women's issues being advanced?
Who is advising governments and giving expert opinions?

The Transatlantic Applied Research in Gender Equity Training (TARGET) project focuses on the transformation of feminist knowledge into "gender expertise" by examining the specific process of "gender training" of policy-makers. TARGET is a collaborative project of the Gender and Women's Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Women's Studies Program at Northeastern University in the US, and the QUING network of the European Union.

TARGET is funded by an EU-U.S. Atlantis grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, (FIPSE), http://www.ed.gov/FIPSE/ (refer to EDGAR, 34 CFR 75.620) U.S. Department of Education.

TARGET goals

To develop evaluation criteria for gender mainstreaming training in US development projects
Compare EU and US gender mainstreaming practices and strengthen networks
Produce a database of gender experts and training programs
Conduct expert workshops in the US and three in the EU, to specifically identify best practices in gender mainstreaming training
Develop a curriculum manual for gender trainers

TARGET Partner Institutions

Northwestern University Women's Studies Department, US

QUING Network of the European Union

Institute for Gender Studies of Radbound University, the Netherlands

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

The Gender Competence Center (GenderKompetenzZentrum) of Humboldt University, Germany