GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT TRAINING MANUAL FOR CROSS BORDER OFFICIALS

Kenya - 7 May 2018

This manual introduces the gender and development concept and what it means in relation to trade and trade facilitation at the border posts. This Training of Trainers’ (TOT) manual is for use by trainers for the training on cross border trade in great lakes region. The target for training includes cross border traders and the different officers stationed in various border posts.
This manual aims at providing a tool for training cross border officers such as trade information officers, custom officers and others on gender issues that they need to be aware of and how these issues can be addressed in order to not only increase cross border trade and also empower the traders.