On Sunday, December 1st 2019, Dr. Choman Hardi, Director of CGDS, conducted a Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop for 21 female participants from Suliamani, Halabja, Erbil and Duhok. The training was a part of a 6 day training manual titled “Women Can Do it”. It was arranged by People‘s Development Organization (PDO) in cooperation with Norwegian People's Aid (NPA). The Women Can Do It project aims to increase the participation of youth and women in promoting civil society in Iraq.
The training started with the definition of gender and then the relation between language and gender was scrutinized. The participants were introduced to the biological and social characteristics of men and women. Later on, the different waves of feminism were discussed along with an assessment for the women's movement in Kurdistan.