IGDS
1. Equalities Enabling Fund - UWI, Mona Sexual Harassment (Prevention & Protection) Peer Advisors Training Manual (funded by the British High Commission in Jamaica)
Project overview: This Training manual is a result of a 12-week project funded by the British High Commission (BHC) in Jamaica, Equalities Enabling Fund in Jamaica, which seeks to increase awareness among UWI, Mona students of Sexual Harassment Prevention and Protection strategies.
The researchers at the IGDS have designed a training manual for tertiary level students who want to become Sexual Harassment Prevention Peer Advisors. The content is designed in a series of six modules of participatory exercises and activities. It is meant to introduce students to the legal and practical framework for preventing sexual harassment and protecting victim/survivors of incidents of sexual harassment.
Sexual Harrasment Prevention and Protection Bathroom Blitz
Understanding consent - graphic poster.
2. Supporting Increased Learning Opportunities for Underperforming Boys (16 - 24 Years) in Jamaica (funded by the Commonwealth of Learning Canada)
Desk Review: A Situational Analysis of the educational aspirations of selected Jamaican male youth (16-24 years) was conducted. The result of this is a database comprising 25 available educational and vocational skills training opportunities offered to Jamaican youth by various institutions.
Face – to – face surveys - were conducted with 300 male youth in the urban area of the Kingston and Metropolitan area (KMA) and rural St. Elizabeth. Surveys were also carried out with one hundred and fifty (150) mothers of in school and out-of-school youth (OSY’s) to determine the influence of mothers on the educational aspirations and choices made by male youth.
Two separate Focus Group sessions – 1 with in and out of school male youth (16-24 years old) and another with unrelated mothers of out of school youth).
Final Report (click to read report)
Research findings:
3. Gender and Economic Empowerment
Situation Analysis of Household Workers in Jamaica ILO/Jamaica Household Workers Association: for IL)/Jamaica Household Workers Association.
ILO 2018- Women's Entrepreneurship Development (WED)
4. Gender and Governance
Project: Advancing Transformational Leadership for Gender Justice in the Caribbean-Project funded by United Nations Democracy Fund(UNDEF) - executed by UN Women and implemented by the IGDS Mona Unit to support the Caribbean Institute for Women in Leadership (CIWL). Impact assessment of Training in Transformational Leadership on Caribbean Women Leaders.
Participatory Research on Women in Politics in Jamaica (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung)
Household Workers in Jamaica ILO/Jamaica Household Workers Association: for ILO/Jamaica Household Workers Association
5. Gender, Sexuality and HIV/AIDs
Gender and HIV/AIDS: Factors influencing the formation of sexual relationships among UWI students: Implications for HIV Risks (for Foundation/UWI Health Centre)
Sexual Relations among MSM: Implications for HIV/AIDS (Red Cross)
Our 7 faculties and 12 professional schools offer more than 200 programmes to some 18,000 graduate, undergraduate and continuing studies students.
The UWI, Mona ranks first in Jamaica among accredited tertiary-level programmes. In 2012, the University was again one of Jamaica’s Top 100 Employers.
