Barung Gurung and Nisha Onta facilitated the workshop through the Embassy of Sweden’s Regional Gender Facility on 3-4 July 2019 in Yangon, Myanmar. MJI is one of the partners of Fojo Media Institute. Fojo Media Institute, through its Southeast Asia Media Training Network (SEA MTN) Project, analyzed gender in the media landscape in Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam, and developed a practical roadmap – in collaboration with their partners – to address issues of harassment of women working in media and strengthening journalism curricula to ensure they have a gender lens. In order to provide support to their partners to conduct institutional gender assessments, Fojo requested the Embassy of Sweden’s Regional Gender Support Facility to facilitate a gender and organizational development workshop for their partner the Myanmar Journalism Institute (MJI).
The overall objective of the workshop was to enhance the collective capacity of the organization by examining the institution’s policies, programs and activities from a gender perspective and identify strengths and weaknesses in promoting gender equality. The workshop also included the development of an M&E system that will monitor and assess the relative progress made in gender mainstreaming and build organizational ownership for gender equality initiatives and sharpens organizational learning on gender.
The 14 participants (10 men and 4 women) who were managers, trainers and operational staff of MJI conducted the gender analysis ofMJI’s policies, programs and activities. In two days the participants developed outcomes, indicators and activities under these four categories:
- What leadership must do?
- Accountability
- Technical capacity
- Organizational culture
