Gender Equality Studies & Training Programme

under the auspices of UNESCO

Year in Review 2024

ONLINE COURSES IN INTERNATIONAL GENDER STUDIES

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GRÓ GEST fellows at a field trip by Vatnajökull Glacier. The trip was a part of the module on gender, environment and climate change.

GRÓ Annual Report 2024 published

The year 2024 was an active and productive one for GRÓ – Centre for Capacity Development, Sustainability and Societal Change – and the four training programmes focusing on fisheries, gender equality, geothermal energy and land restoration. A total of 97 specialists graduated from the five to six-month training in 2024, bringing the total number of GRÓ alumni to 1,767. Seven GRÓ scholarship recipients graduated, two with a PhD and 5 with a Master’s degree. In addition, several short courses were held in the partner countries, and a new online course was launched.
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Mohamed Altamash Khan: Engaging Boys and Men for Gender Justice in India and Beyond

Mohamed Altamash Khan, a GRÓ GEST alumnus from India, has built a career dedicated to reshaping harmful gender norms by engaging boys and men in conversations around equality. Currently, he works as Senior Gender Trainer and Program Manager at the NGO Men Against Violence and Abuse (MAVA), and is also pursuing a Master’s Degree in Education and International Development at University College London (UCL).
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Laburnum in bloom on University of Iceland campus in summer 2024

Summer Holidays Closure

The GRÓ GEST office will be closed for summer holidays from 12th July through 5th August 2025. E-mail will be monitored intermittently but responses are to be expected after the office reopens in August.
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From left: Sana Lokhandwala and Radhika Modi

March 8 Fund Supports Menstrual Equity in South Asia

Sana Lokhandwala and Radhika Modi have been awarded this year's allocation

Statistics

241
fellows graduated
38
countries represented
16
years of experience
2
phd fellows