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  • Title: Empowering women: interventions. Gender sensitization --UMATI takes the lead.
    Author: Mugo-muna C.
    Journal: Afr Link; 1995 Apr; ():11. PubMed ID: 12349559.
    Abstract:
    The Tanzania Family Planning Association, Uzazi na Malezi Bora Tanzania (UMATI) organized a 3-day workshop on Gender Sensitization in Morogoro Tanzania in October 1993, to address the gender representation imbalances identified by the International Planned Parenthood Federation Africa Region Task Force on Involvement of Women. The workshop was participated by 32 senior UMATI officials and volunteers. The sessions centered on the importance of gender awareness in Tanzanian cultural setting, management aspects of gender, gender inequality, the impact of public and development plans on gender, and family planning as a gender issue. Family planning was seen as a gender issue because of the following reasons: 1) family planning concerns men and women; 2) males dominate decision making on family planning issues; 3) where cases of infertility exist, women are held responsible; 4) methods of family planning tend to be gender biased; 5) service providers of UMATI are mostly women; and 6) sociocultural pressures put women at a relative disadvantage to men on family planning matters. It is hoped that the impact of their interventions would be seen at grassroots level in terms of gender sensitivity in UMATI.
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