Women's political participation training curriculum in southwest Nigeria

curriculum that will help women to overcome some of the barriers to increasing their participation.

Specifically, this women's training curriculum will focus on at least five different skills areas that include:

(1} Civic education;

(2) Making common grievances over gender inequality salient;

(3) Increasing a sense of women1 s group identity;

(4) Understanding how men can support women; and

(5) Increasing perceived efficacy.

For some women, their training will be complemented by their partners receiving a men1 s training curriculum. The durations of all of these program elements are listed below. In all cases, the listed duration of the training session is time spent in actual activities, and is exclusive of time required to gather all participants, welcome them, provide breaks, and distribute sign-in sheets, etc. One hour will be allocated in all sessions for such administrative matters.