Title: NATIONAL PROGRAM
1NATIONAL PROGRAM
2Whats in a name?
- Uma mulher GRANDE! A BIG woman! (size)
- Uma GRANDE mulher! A
GREAT woman! (quality) - MIL Mulheres A THOUSAND Women! (quantity)
- Mulheres MIL
TOP GRADE Women! (quality)
3Thousand Women Brief History
- Brazil-Canada Cooperation
- Partnership between Niagara College and CEFET/RN
2003/2004 - 2005 Start development of the project
- Empowerment in Tourism
- Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR)?
- Conclusion in 2005 with the empowerment of 60
women - Consolidation of the cooperation Thousand Women
Pilot Project - ACCC/SETEC/CEFETRN prepared and submitted the
Thousand Women Project to CIDA and ABC (Brazilian
Cooperation Agency) expansion of the project to
12 more institutions within the Federal Network
of Technological Vocational Education. - Focus on the promotion of equity, social
inclusion, access to top quality education and
the labor market, citizenship awareness and local
development.
4Guiding Axes
eBased on the Education, Citizenship Awareness,
and Sustainable Development axes, the program
offers technological and vocational empowerment
by creating the necessary bridges, so that women
can enhance their productive potential, improve
the life conditions of their lives, families and
communities as well as their sustainable economic
growth towards a fair social inclusion and full
exercise of citizenship rights and duties.
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5Results and Impacts
- Data from 2008 to 2011
- Empowered Women 1.191
- Dropout Rate 15, 87
- Employability (in March/2011)
- 670 certified women
- 18,76 entered the labor market
- Note The figures above do not include the
community associations, entrepreneurial actions
and those hire by the informal labor market.
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6More Results and Impacts
- Indirect Impacts
- Rescue of students self-esteem
- Improvement in the family relations and
structures in the organization of their
community everyday life - Going back to school to continue their studies
- Improvement of their kids school performance
- Stimulate other women to search similar schooling
upgrade and vocational training productive
inclusion. - Reduction of domestic violence womens
emancipation and empowerment
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7Thousand Women The New Cycle
- The Thousand Women national program is among the
affirmative public policies of social inclusion
and equity. Its one actions within the Brazil
without Poverty Plan, which is part of the set
of priorities concerning the Brazilian government
public policies, especially under the following
axes promotion of equity, gender, fighting
violence against women and womens access to
education and the labor market.
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8International Targets
- Priorities under the international scope
- It aims to contribute to achieve the 2021
Educational Goals the education we wish for the
bicentennial generation sponsored by the
Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) and
approved the Chiefs of States and Governments
from the member countries in December, 2010. - The Thousand Women Program will contribute to the
following goals - - Goal 2 Reach educational equity and overcome
all kinds of discrimination in education - - Goal 6 Favor the connection between education
and labor through technical vocational education - - Goal 7 Offer everyone access to education
throughout life.
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9Program Objectives
- Promote the educational, social and productive
inclusion of women under social vulnerability - Provide non-traditional students access to
technical vocational education - Offer technical vocational courses and programs
as well as schooling upgrade and citizenship
awareness (160-hour class load) - Articulate mechanisms and connections towards the
insertion of recent grads into the labor market
by stimulating entrepreneurship, the solidarity
associations and employability. - Implement the Thousand Women Observatory in all
the development nuclei of the Program
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10More Program Objectives
- Establish a network for the exchange of good
practices and information dissemination - Articulate mechanisms and connections to carry
out academic and applied researches in the social
and technological fields related to the Program - Empower technically and pedagogically the
multi-disciplinary teams, who are members of the
Access, Retention and Success methodology of
the Thousand Women Program - Implement the Certification Seal of the Thousand
Women methodology.
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11Program Target
- Between 2011 to 2014, the Program foresees the
empowerment of 1.000 women, who live in boroughs
with low human development rate or/and members of
the citizenship territories.
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12 Actions in 2011
- Nationalization
- Launching of the Program and call for
applications - 99 campuses of the Federal Institutes (IFs) join
the program - Empowerment of institutional managers
- Implementation of 99 new Thousand Women Access
Offices.
13Campuses joining the program in 2011
14Actions in 2012
- New Call for Applications in 2012 with the
approval of 102 new campuses - Managers Empowerment May 21 to 25, 2011 and
June 11 to 15, 2012 - Expand national partnerships
- Enroll 20.000 women
- Disseminate the Access, Retention, Success
methodology within the State Networks of
Vocational Education.?
15 Partners Joint Actions
- OEI Dissemination of methodology and
monitoring - MDS Articulation with city governments (social
demands), financing in emergency areas - SDH Offer of empowerment training on human
rights, a joint action with the Reference Center
of Rights articulation towards the
implementation of solidary incubators - Articulation with the city governments in order
to provide facilities and skilled staff.
16Further information in Brazil
- Website http//mulheresmil.mec.gov.br/
- E-mail programamulheresmil_at_mec.gov.br
- Prof. Gutenberg Albuquerque Dean for
Extension/IFCE - Very proud to be the first man to be empowered
by the Thousand Women Program - E-mail gutenberg_at_ifce.edu.br
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