Course author
UN Women's Second Chance Education programme
UN Women's Second Chance Education (SCE) programme supports marginalized and crisis-affected women by providing a second chance to access learning and training opportunities and find pathways to empowerment.
Course overview
This course is part of the Leadership blended learning course developed by UN Women’s Second Chance Education (SCE) programme. It is targeted at SCE participants. The course will help to broaden your understanding of leadership and to recognize your own leadership potential and the power of organizing with other women to bring about change. It will help you build the skills and attributes needed to be an ‘agent of change’, including self-knowledge, communication skills, resilience, the ability to make decisions, and time management. The course is one of three SCE foundational courses: Personal Growth, Gender and Leadership.
The full course includes
- Introduction
- Agents of change
- I can change things!
- Being a leader
- SCE agents of change
- Great feminist leaders
- Feminist leadership
- The power of caring
- Becoming a feminist leader
- We need action!
- Individuals together
- "What can girls do?"
- Seeking justice together
- Benefits of mentoring
- What not to do as a mentor
- Asta and the coach
- Asta and her neighbour
- Asta and the community garden
- Quiz
- Acknowledgements