NATIONAL PROGRAM

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NATIONAL PROGRAM
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Whats 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)

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Thousand 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.

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Guiding 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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Results 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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More 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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Thousand 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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International 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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Program 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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More 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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Program 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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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.

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Campuses joining the program in 2011
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Actions 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.?

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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.

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Further 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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