women and men working in partnership
About Project Parity
Training Methods - Appropriate To Local Needs
Trainers for courses and workshops are drawn from our extensive contacts with politicians, trainers, leaders of NGOs, media trainers, management trainers, and people in public life from around the world. In order to put everything into an appropriate local context, as well as our trainers, we also try to use leaders and experts from the local country where the training is taking place. In certain countries we also need to take an administration assistant with us to deal with local administrative details. Our methods of training women are deliberately very interactive. This is especially important in countries where democracy is new or weak and the population has been encouraged to take a passive role in the past. The workshops look at practical ways of making thousands more women's voices heard in political, public and business arenas. Our workshops are conducted on an equal basis of sharing knowledge. We tailor our courses to the particular needs of each group. Where possible we like to involve the participants in helping design their own training course - we believe this is part of empowering people. This may involve an initial visit to discuss the needs of the people.Meet The Team
Lesley Abdela is Chief Executive of Project Parity. She co-founded the all-Party 300 Group for Women in Politics/Public Life. Tim Symonds is Executive Director of Project Parity and co-founded the 300 Group. We have a wide variety of experts who work for us. We hand pick teams for each project so that we use the most appropriate personnel. Our experts and trainers have ranged from Gender Experts to Media Experts and from former Cabinet Ministers to US Presidential Advisors.View this article at: www.shevolution.qbfox.com/about_us/project_parity/pp_train.html