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Valuing Gender in Regeneration

A UK-wide workshop based networking event to look at how gender fits into regeneration policy and practice.
Wednesday 15 October, 10:00-4:00pm, Manchester City Centre

Why Gender in Regeneration?
Aims of the day
Who will this event be of interest to?
Draft agenda
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Why Gender in Regeneration?
At present, there is little work done on how regeneration polices and practices affect women and men differently. Regeneration schemes do not actively seek to ensure that both women and men’s participation, and access to both resources and decision-making is equal. For regeneration initiatives to be effective and sustainable, they must be built on real findings about how women and men have different life patterns and play different roles in their communities. Their gender specific concerns need to be addressed.

Aims of the Day

- To network and learn about gender in regeneration and what a gender aware approach has to offer.

- To share experience of working on gender in regeneration and how to ensure that women and men’s separate experiences are accounted for in programmes.

- To enable practitioners to share their own experience of providing services based on addressing specific gender concerns.

- To identify barriers and opportunities for including gender in current regeneration practice.

Who this event will be of interest to?
· Regeneration practitioners
· Local Authority Officers
· Equality Officers
· Community Safety Officers
· Other practitioners working in regeneration and/or interested in equalities issues and want to include gender in their practice.

ReGender ProjectUK Poverty Programme

‘Valuing Gender in Regeneration’

Draft agenda

10.00 - 10.30 Registration & Coffee
10.30 - 11.00 Welcome and Plenary Input
11.00 - 11.15 Tea Break
11.15 - 1.00 Case Studies:
Cae Mawr group (Wales)
Northmoor Road Community Safety Audit group (Manchester)
Women’s Design Service
Regional Action West Midland
ReGender’s policy level work
1.00 - 2.00 Lunch and Networking
2.00 - 3.30 Facilitated workshops to explore the barriers and opportunities for including gender in regeneration practice.

The Women’s Design Service will run a specific workshop aimed at practitioners working on community safety issues

3.30 - 4.00 Presentation of workshop findings.

For more information, please contact:

Seema Shah (ReGender Project Officer)
Oxfam UK Poverty Programme
494 Wilbraham Road
Chorlton
Manchester M21 9AS
tel: 0161 860 5295 7: 0161 860 5600
email: [email protected]