As a tool for engendering broad public participation in debating and setting economic policy, economic literacy promotes a framework for revealing the structural causes of economic and social problems. These Training Courses aim at en abling women from the North, South and East to participate in the debate on the global economy by enhancing their understanding of economic and trade concepts and issues as well as the conceptual links between gender, trade and the WTO debate. The courses promote the information exchange between women from the North, South and East on the gender, trade and the WTO debate by providing them with the opportunity to compare the differences and similarities of the impact of trade policies on women s lives in their own region. The training is a process of sharing specific economic, political and social analysis and information with a group in accessible, participatory ways. It consists of tools to make complex ideas understandable and to uncover systemic issues behind what we observe.
Important goals are to have fun while learning and to recognize that people learn in different ways.