CIHP (Consultation on Investment in Health Promotion) is implementing the Rockefeller funded project "Enhancing capacity of Vietnamese researchers on publishing and dissemination of research on gender and sexuality" (Encourages), which aims to support Vietnamese researchers to produce quality research papers/articles and disseminate them effectively to researchers at national and international levels.

This workshop aims

(1) To discover and discuss concepts and theoretical framework relating to Gender, Empowerment, Sexuality and Sexual Health.

(2) To help participants to have more analytical and positive views of Gender and Sexuality.

PROGRAMME DETAILS

Trainer: Hoang Tu Anh, MD. MSc. and Vu Song Ha, MD. MPH

Venue: Hanoi.

Dates: March 26 – 29, 2007.

Language: The training course will be conducted in Vietnamese.

The project will provide scholarships for participants outside Hanoi.

Content

Taking place over four days, the training workshop will provide opportunities for participants to:

- Explore and discuss common understandings of gender and sexuality. Gender and sexual identity is more than a dichotomy between male and female. In this session, we discuss sexuality diversity, the power relations, and compare different cultural and social responses to diversity in sex, gender and sexuality.

- Build up critical thinking about sexual rights. Individual’s ability to control their bodies is affected by economic and health service factors, by quality of care and ideas about gender, sexuality and reproduction. The right to control one's own sexual and reproductive life has often been controlled and limited in various ways in most societies. Authority over women's sexual and reproductive lives is often vested in the families into which women are born or married, their communities and governments, and their religious leaders.

- Reflex and apply knowledge and debates in their research and programs.

Training methods

- The training workshop will include lectures and group discussions.

- Reading is a requirement in some specific sessions and a couple of short movies will be shown in the training course.

Participants and Application

- Researchers and programmers are working in the field of gender, sexuality and sexual health. Participants are not required to submit their papers; however, priority is given for those who have research papers on gender, sexuality and sexual health.

- Participants are required to fill in the application form. Submit the completed form and research paper, if available, either in English or Vietnamese to the Encourages Project via email encourages@cihp.org or by fax to 5770261 prior to Feb 28, 2007. Please contact Ms. Vinh via email vinh@cihp.org for the form.

Contact address

Encourages Project, Consultation of Investment in Health Promotion (CIHP)

108 A12 Alley 4/15, Phuong Mai, Dong Da, Hanoi

Tel: 5770261 Fax: 5770260

Email: encourages@cihp.org

Attn: Hai M. Tran, Project Assistant.