NATIONAL PROGRAM

What’s 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)

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.

Guiding Axes

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Based 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; women’s 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. It’s 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 women’s 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.

Campuses joining the program in 2011

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.

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.

Further information in Brazil:

Website: http://mulheresmil.mec.gov.br/

E-mail: programamulheresmil@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@ifce.edu.br

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