FREE UNICEF Gender-Responsive Social Protection E-Course: Self-Paced Training for Practitioners and Development Professionals
UNICEF offers a self-paced online course on Gender-Responsive Social Protection to help professionals understand how gender shapes access to opportunity, security, services, and well-being.
Overview
The UNICEF Gender-Responsive Social Protection e-course is a self-paced online training designed to help practitioners, development professionals, and government partners understand how gender shapes access to opportunity, security, services, and well-being throughout a person’s life. The course introduces the core principles and practical applications of Gender-Responsive Social Protection (GRSP), examining how social protection policies and programmes can be designed, delivered, monitored, and improved to respond to gender-related risks and prevent exclusion.
Following a story-based learning approach centred around an adolescent girl named Mia, the course explores how household expectations, safety concerns, documentation requirements, and mobility influence whether individuals receive adequate support. The curriculum consists of five modules covering foundational concepts, programme design, delivery systems, monitoring and evaluation, and policy advocacy.
Benefits
- Gain approximately two hours of self-paced online training delivered in English.
- Explore interactive exercises, decision-based scenarios, videos, and practical case studies.
- Learn how to design, deliver, and monitor gender-responsive social protection interventions.
- Understand how to remove barriers for women, girls, and other groups facing intersecting disadvantages.
Eligibility
The course is open to a broad professional audience, including:
- UNICEF personnel, country office staff, consultants, interns, and volunteers.
- Government and public-sector professionals working in social welfare, gender equality, labour, finance, education, and health.
- Civil society organisations, international and local NGOs, foundations, donors, researchers, and private-sector partners.
How to Apply
The training is open for self-enrollment with no application form or competitive selection process required. Prospective learners can access the official platform to register and sign in to begin the modules.
Deadline
No application deadline is stated.