Consultancy – Gender-Responsive Parenting Camp

The term parent is not limited to biological parents but extends to any guardian or caregiver providing consistent care to children and adolescents. This includes adoptive or foster parents, siblings, grandparents, other relatives and young adolescents, who are also parents. Gender norms give expression to and reinforce the power dynamics inherent in a society’s valuation of male and female gender roles, therefore, often amplifying male privilege and justifying discriminatory treatment of girls and women. For children who identify as gender diverse, gender norms may force them to conform in ways that conflict with and impair their self-development. Stereotypical and discriminatory beliefs lead to practices and behaviors that can have serious negative consequences for the future of the child and society.

Parenting that applies key principles such as gender equality and inclusion, and that promotes positive gender norms and socialization, in order to transform imbalanced power structures in families (and future generations) is known as gender-responsive parenting. This means promoting and supporting the holistic development, well-being and positive gender socialization of the students throughout their life course, through parenting interactions, behaviors, emotions, knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and practices.

In order to accomplish this goal, IECD is looking for a service provider with the necessary skills to provide a one-day gender-responsive parenting camp for 150 families of students in three technical schools ; Electro Misr ATS school and Don Bosco institute in Cairo and Al Wardian technical school in Alexandria. This will be through applying key principles, such as gender equality and inclusion, and promoting positive gender norms and socialization to transform imbalanced power structures in families and future generations.