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Le Monde selon les femmes
Who are we?
“For a world where relations are built on equality, diversity and solidarity“
Key figures per year
• A dozen new pedagogical and publishing tools• More than 1900 people trained in the North and in the South• About thirty mobilisation events• More than 60 partnerships, evaluations, coaching activities and projects
Our objectives
• To foster understanding of international and development issues from a gender perspective to achieve
behavioral changes – both at individual and collective levels.
• To increase the number of male and female actors committed to equality in the North and the South.
• To improve the effective implementation of equality and the respect of women’s rights through individual
and collective empowerment.
• To foster the possibility to exercise and to claim its rights and know its responsibilities at local and global
levels with a gender mainstream advocacy approach.
Le Monde selon les femmes (M/F)* is a Belgian NGO founded in 1986 and specialised in gender and development. Its objective is to promote equality between women and men, and between the North and the South as well as tocontribute to effective and sustainable development.
In the North, Le Monde selon les femmes contributes by reducing resistance to the gender approach. To do so, the NGOdoes advocacy work, trains for the integration of gender mainstreaming, engages in researches and publishes educationaltools.
In the South, the NGO supports groups of women actors, builds North/South and South/South networks for sustainabledevelopment that takes into account gender inequalities. Its work and cooperation focuses on four themes: economy,violence, reproductive and sexual rights and sustainable development.
*The World according to Women.
Capacity building and trainingOur training modules can be adapted to meet your needs,your target group and your institutional priorities. We trainall audience types using our basic, consolidating andsupplementary training sessions. At the conclusion of ourtraining sessions, you will have the necessary knowledgeand educational tools to mainstream the gender approachin your organisation.
Systematisation and construction of knowledge
We capitalise on the knowledge of people who have lived
through experiences to gain a deeper understanding of and to
improve practices: actions, collective projects, institutional
projects, skills, behaviour, socio-political struggles, and so on. This
will allow understanding them, to theorise them and to make
them forward-looking from a transformative perspective.
Development of educational and publishing toolsWe aim to make available educational tools based on yourorganisation needs. We create various tools like booklets andmanuals, games, exhibitions, posters, practical exercises, CDs,DVDs, and so on. Moreover, we have a documentation centre withhundreds of publications, articles and educational tools on gender.
Gender coaching or tailored coachingFirst, we conduct a qualitative and quantitative diagnosis to
identify the areas of progress and the challenges in your
organisation. Then, based on your needs, we work together
to build a personalised and effective response that will lead
to the development of a strategy that will integrate
woman/man equality relations at the practical and policy
levels and/or in a specific action.
Mainstreaming gender into programmes and projects in the North and the SouthWe help managers to identify, using gender analysis,
significant differences between the roles and responsibilities
of women and men, so that information can be obtained to
make policies, programmes and projects more efficient
and equal.
Evaluating development programmes and projects in the North and the SouthWe determine the relevance and the fulfilment of theobjectives, the efficiency in matters of development, theeffectiveness, the impact and the sustainability. We offeryou useful information to help draw lessons and improveyour future interventions. We conduct formative, summary,mid-term, final, ex-post, thematic, sectoral evaluations,impact assessment, etc.
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Alicia NOVIS
Holding a degree in Information andcommunication, I am a gender andcommunication trainer, expert in stereotypes,media, NICT, hypersexualisation,empowerment and citizen intelligence.
Déborah SCHOENMAECKERS Holding a Master’s degree inEuropean Public Policy, I am an expert in migratory justice,development, good governanceand human rights, projectmanagement, participation and civilsociety consultation.
Lidia RODRIGUEZ PRIETO
Holding a degree in Agricultural Engineering,I specialised in planning and management ofinternational cooperation projects, gendermainstreaming, ecological agriculture, ruraldevelopment and tropical regions.
Marcela DE LA PEÑA VALDIVIA
Holding a Master’s degree in Genderand Sustainable Development, I am an
expert in gender mainstreaming inpublic organisations and policies; I aman evaluator and trainer specialised in
gender-sensitive budgeting,economics, indicators, migration and
intersectionality.
Sophie CHARLIER
As an agricultural engineerand with a PhD in
Environment, Developmentand Population, I am atrainer and specialised
consultant in agriculture,food sovereignty, social and
solidarity economy,empowerment processes
and programme and project cycles.
Noémie KAYAERT
Holding a Master’s degree in Engineeringand Social Actions, I am a trainer specialisedin gender and youth, community social workand empowerment process, socio-culturalactivities and Global and Social CitizenshipEducation.
Pascale MAQUESTIAU
As a nurse in TropicalMedicine, I give training
courses on reproductive andsexual rights, violence against
women, interdisciplinaryresearch, strategic analysisand advocacy, I also design
materials for populareducation.
Claudine DRION
Holding a degree in SocialSciences, I am a trainer whospecialises in adult education,self-social construction ofknowledge, systemic approach; I have also written many booksand articles on the topic ofgender and training.
- Some training courses and services are available in Spanish or English.
- Our team also includes other professionals who collaborate in the smooth running of our services.
Our experts
What sets us apart?
• Our multi-disciplinary and inter-cultural team: we are a teamof experts in gender and sustainable development with aNorth/South crossover approach.
• Our innovative educational approach: the educationalprocess that we offer fits in the framework of populareducation, focusing on the intervention as an area ofmobilising minds, in conjunction with concrete situations forimplementing methodological, cultural and cognitiveconditions of civic and political commitment.
It involves participative education based on the experienceof the participants, presentations, experiences of the Southand the North, practical exercises based on analysis grids,heuristic (discovery) games, debates, audio-visual media, sub-group work and creative approaches.
Our methodology allows for the acquisition of knowledge,competences like analysis, critical spirit (know-how), openness(know-how-to-be), and the capacity to think and act takinginto account the challenges of the future (know-how-to-become).
• Our educational tools and methodology documentationcentre: we make hundreds of documents, articles andeducational tools on gender available to you. Our centrehosts researchers, students, personnel from NGOs or from theassociative world or any person interested in issues of genderand development.
• Our mobilisation capacity and our networking: we participatein various networks (16 in Belgium and 10 around the world)to challenge the NGOs, the cooperation sector and thepolitical world on the issue of gender and to strengthen thepolitical struggles for more social justice and for equal rightsin the North and the South.
• Our inclusive feminism: we are developing an inclusiveapproach in which women and men are jointly involved indeconstructing sexist and racist stereotypes, ensuring thetransmission of knowledge between generations.
• Our ethics and transparency: these constitute the twopillars of our governance.
What are our quality marks?
NGO recognition: this accreditation as non-governmental cooperation actor validates our autonomyand financial transparency, our capacity to prepare,implement and ensure follow-up of cooperation actionsand the effectiveness of our actions in the field.
Recognition as a lifelong education organisation: weare recognised in the creation of educational and trainingtools aimed at critical analysis of society, stimulation ofdemocratic and collective initiatives and development ofactive citizenship.
The “EVRAS in Youth” Label: this labelrecognises our expertise in the field ofeducation in interpersonal, affective andsexual life and allows us to empoweryoung people to build a responsible,critical, active and inclusive citizenship.
AERF (Association for Ethics inFundraising) label and Donorinfo: ourmembership in these two institutionsguarantee our management quality andour transparency.
Our networkIn Belgium• Centre national de coopération au développement (CNCD)• Commission Alter Egales• Conseil Bruxellois de l’Egalité entre les femmes et les hommes• Conseil Consultatif Genre et Développement (CCGD) • Conseil Francophone des femmes de Belgique (CFFB)• Conseil Wallonie-Bruxelles de coopération internationale• Fédération francophone et germanophone des ONG decoopération au développement (ACODEV)
• Groupe belge associatif et universitaire en études féministes, degenre et sur les sexualités (Grabuges)
• Groupe de travail Education Citoyenne Mondiale et Solidaire (ECMS)• Lieu d’éducation au développement (LED)• Plateforme agriculture et sécurité alimentaire de la Directiongénérale de la coopération au développement (DGCD)
• Plateforme Be-cause Health• Plateforme BE-Gender Belgique• Plateforme femmes et santé• Plateforme santé et solidarité• Réseau mariage et migration
Internationally• Commission genre de l'Organisation internationale de lafrancophonie (OIF) pour la Région Wallonie-Bruxelles
• Marche mondiale des femmes• Pékin+20• Réseau d'apprentissage et d'action communautaire sur le genre(RAAC Palabras)
• Rencontre Internationale Femmes et Santé• Rencontres féministes internationales• Réseau international « Genre en action »• Réseau mondial des femmes et droits reproductifs (RMFDR)• Women in Development Europe / Globalizing gender equality andsocial justice (WIDE+)
• Women’s Global Network of reproductive rights (WGNRR)
Contact• ADRESS Le Monde selon les femmes asbl
18, rue de la Sablonnière
1000 Brussels - Belgium
• TEL +32 22 23 05 12
• E-MAIL [email protected]
• WEB www.mondefemmes.org
• FACEBOOK www.facebook.fr/mondeselonlesfemmes
• YOUTUBE MondeSelonFemmes
• LINKEDIN https://www.linkedin.com/company/le-monde-selon-les-femmes
With the support of: la Coopération belge au développement and la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.
They have already relied on us Amongst our main commissioners are agencies in the United Nationsand the EU, national development cooperation agencies, communaland regional agencies, universities, and actors in the associative andsocio-cultural worlds. Some examples: