From 26-28 April, 2017, ADC staff joined GALS toolkit training training (Gender Action Learning System) organized by Oxfam in Bao Nhai commune, Bac Ha district, Lao Cai province, what is in the framework of the project entitled “Women’s Economic Empowerment through Agricultural Value Chain Enhancement (WEAVE)”.

During the training, ADC staff worked directly with the people in this community by using tools like Vision Journey - to determine their visions in near future, find out the advantages and disadvantages, develop the roadmap and solutions to achieve their visions successfully based on their actual situations; the Chalenge Action Tree – to figure out focal problems, demonstrations and the causes of them, then offer solutions; Gender Balance Tree – to identify the division of the housework, the imbalance in decision-making between men and women, and then provide resolutions to change.

After the training, special thanks were given to CARE, Oxfam and Lao Cai Department of Agriculture and Rural Development for their enthusiastic guidance, sharing experience as well as giving clear explanation about GALS.

Some pictures of the training:

Introduce the Vision Journey

Describe how to build the Vision Journey

Gender Balance Tree - identify the division of the housework

Describe the Gender Balance Tree

Challenge Action Tree

Discuss about the diffirent among: Vision Journey, Chalenge Action Tree and Gender Balance Tree.

The poem of feelings of Giang Kac Cu about GALS