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Leading to Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook for Women (Russian Edition)
Leading to Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook for Women (2003) (132 pages)
Russian Edition 0-9710922-5-7 $24.95
Authors: Mahnaz Afkhami, Ann Eisenberg, and Haleh Vaziri
In consultation with: Suheir Azzouni, Ayesha Imam, Amina Lemrini, and Rabea Naciri
Translated, adapted, and tested by: Women's Resource Center of Tashkent (TWRC), Uzbekistan
Edited by: Elena Gapova
Using the Russian edition of Leading to Choices, Women's Resource Center of Tashkent (TWRC) organizes training of trainers programs for Uzbek women to enable them to conduct participatory and dialogue-based workshops. TWRC notes that the concept of horizontal, participatory leadership is not an easy topic for women living in a post-Soviet society to discuss, as they are accustomed to a system in which leaders are generally appointed and follow hierarchical communication styles. WLP's workshops have given Uzbek women a new sense of responsibility for their future and a desire to make decisions for themselves. Following one leadership training, a participant stated, "I now feel I have the inner strength and confidence to change my life--I will show my family that I believe in myself and that I can achieve my goals." Other workshops have resulted in the establishment of seven new non-governmental organizations for women's rights advocacy.
Leading to Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook for Women (2003) (132 pages)
Russian Edition 0-9710922-5-7 $24.95
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Stories from the field
Leadership Skills as a Pathway to Employment in Kazakhstan
May 2008: WLP Kazakhstan/Shymkent Women’s Resource Center (SWRC) held two leadership workshops in April and May for twenty-nine women involved in SWRC’s vocational training programs. Workshop participants ranged in age from 19-57 years old.
Most of SWRC’s vocational students, enrolled in three-month courses in sewing, bookkeeping, or computers, are unemployed and seeking opportunities to reenter the workplace. Although Kazakhstan has begun to achieve gender equality in education at the primary and secondary levels, women’s unemployment rates remain higher than those of men. The workforce itself reveals ongoing divisions based on gender stereotypes, giving women fewer opportunities.*
WLP's Workshops Challenge Leadership Stereotypes in Lebanon and Traditional Gender Roles in Uzbek Media
Grassroots Lebanese and Palestinian women activists and representatives of Uzbek media participated in leadership training workshops organized by WLP and our partner organizations. They challenged authoritarian models of leadership and stereotypical portrayals of women in the media. WLP’s Lebanese partner, Machreq/Maghreb Gender Linking and Information Project (MACMAG GLIP), and WLP’s Uzbek partner, the Women’s Resource Center of Tashkent (TWRC), organized the workshops as part of ongoing training programs using the Partnership’s handbook . Participants commented that the workshop experience enabled them to discover their own leadership abilities, analyze current political trends, and share experiences on ways of challenging the status quo within their communities.
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Lebanon | Uzbekistan | Leading to Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook for Women (Russian Edition) | Leading to Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook for Women (Shamy-Arabic Edition) | Leading to Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook for Women (Uzbek Edition) | Issue 2 (January) | Workshops )
Regional Learning Institute for Women's Leadership in Central Asia
Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) together with its regional partner convened a Central Asia Regional Learning Institute for Women's Leadership from August 24-27, 2005 in Shymkent, Kazakhstan. NGO leaders, journalists, and human rights activists from five countries - Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - participated in the Institute, which consisted of a week-long intensive skills development program in participatory leadership, interactive facilitation, persuasive communication, and effective advocacy campaign development.
The Institute took place amidst an atmosphere of heightened security and political tensions in the region. In the face of increasing restrictions on civil society and NGOs, human rights, and press freedom in the region, WLP brought participants together to create a regional network of women's rights advocates working to advance women in leadership and decision-making positions.
