Internal one-stop resources page for ADVANTAGE GALS Orientation and Planning Meetings 12th – 17th October 2025
Schedule and Session Resources
Day 1 Sunday 12th October:
GALS in ADVANTAGE:
Expectations and challenges
Welcome from GIZ ADVANTAGE
Enas and SAM:
3 minutes
Pyramid Activity
GALS Participatory Activity:
What do we already know?
What do we need to know?
Introduction to participatory exercise
Linda Mayoux 3 min
Questions:
1) What do you already know about GALS? how is it the same or different to other methodologies? eg GESI/PRA etc
2) What do you expect will be 3-5 added value of GALS?
3) What do you think are 3-5 challenges and questions about GALS you need answers to?
Time: 40 minutes
What exactly is GALS?
Linda Mayoux
20 min presentation: overview of GALS for Gender Justice variants, evolution and current innovations
GALS in Kyrgyzstan
Asel Kuttubaeva
PPT and questions
15 minutes
Full reports etc to be updated with Asel on Kyrgyzstan webpage
Remaining questions, discussion, additions from GALS team and issues to think about for tomorrow.
ADVANTAGE questions for planning:
1) Gender or Happy Families as the GALS starting point?
2) Whether, when and how to work with men?
3) What could be a cumulative progression before election and after election?
4) What are the different types of resource needs for the different partners?
Other?
Day 2 Monday 13th October:
GALS in Detail:
Champions, Diagrams and Peer-sharing
‘We Are the Champions’:
SheLead + HeLead = WELEAD??
Champion = someone who uses the methodology in their own lives and shares to strengthen their own social networks
Certified champion advisers =
the most active champions with most changes in own lives and shared with many people. Given certificate, facilitation training and paid for trainings outside their own communities.
NGO supporters: catalyse, respond and document
Ambassadors = people who understand GEMs and promote in organisations but do not practice.
GEMs Experienced advisors: consultants
Exchange Visits.
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sustainability of changes?
sustainability of relationships? sustainability of organisation?
Diagram Template Overviews: Presentation
5-10 minutes per tool Linda presentation from webpage and questions
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Vision Journeys
Vision Journeys are SMART strategic planning tools. They incorporate SWOT analysis and milestones and action to tracked over time to…
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Action Trees
Action Trees clarify very complex realities at a particular point in time. They produce SMART action fruits to prioritise ways…
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Empowerment Maps
Empowerment maps identify stakeholders, families, communities, organisations and networks. Analysing interlinkages and power relations help think about strategies for change.…
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Diamond Visions
Diamond Visions are participatory frameworks to vision, examine and negotiate sensitive, complex and/or conflictual issues.
Day 3 Tuesday 14th October:
GALS Organisational Plans:
Gender Integration and Advocacy
Welcome from GIZ ADVANTAGE
Enas and SAM:
3 minutes
GALS in Nepal
Tribhuban Paudel
PPT 20 minutes with questions
Happy Bangladesh
needs
Happy Community working together
needs
Happy Families working together
needs
Happy women, children and men working together
GALS Organisational Vision Journey First Draft
What will our GALS/GEMs process look like?
How far are we clear about our plan after discussion Days 1 and 2?
What more do we still need to know?
1 hour 30 minutes in organisation groups:
- Group 1) Nari Pokkho with Enas, Asel and Saliya
- Group 2) Bandhu with Tribhuban and other GIZ
- Group 3) UCEP with SAM and Linda
15 minutes individual recap reflection – integrate your thoughts into the exercise
- 3-5 new things
- 3-5 remaining issues
20 minutes small group/individual drafts 1-3 people responsible per item
- draw the basic framework of a Vision Journey – single or multi-lane? draw an organisational vision for GALS – revisit and refine this at the end. This can be on a double page spread of a notebook, digital or flipchart.
- brainstorm and draw an Action Tree for opportunities, challenges and actions
- brainstorm and draw a stakeholder engagement diagram based on Empowerment Map steps: who are the champions, selection of certified champions, ambassadors, staff, advisers
30 minutes group to put it all together on the Vision Journey and in the first milestone put:
- what do you think you will achieve before the election?
- what actions will you do?
- 3-5 things you still need to know
30 minutes feedback 10 minutes per journey minutes questions.
10 minutes remaining time for any further clarification on burning questions from UCEP and Bandhu. Further questions from Nari Pokkho to be saved for discussion on Day 4.
tools: Video Examples
Day 4 Wednesday 15th October:
Catalyst Planning with Naripokkho, GIZ and GALS Advisory Team
- Ideas for the Curriculum : tools and fun?
- Who will be the first women champions? how will you select them, what will you tell them, how will they share, what will they need and what will be the outputs?
- Will you engage with men? why, which men, when, how will you attract them and what will be the outputs?
- What will be the needs of Naripokkho to support? One-off catalyst workshop? Residential/in community? On-line support over time for gradual responsive rollout?
- Complementarities/integration/conflicts with other projects?
- When will the other partners come in and for what?
- What do they need from the GALS Advisory team? When?
If possible this should be added to the vision journey so it is accessible for everyone with drawings? And for easy tracking.
Day 5 Thursday 16th October:
Catalyst to Election Planning with Naripokkho, GIZ and GALS Advisory Team
Final plans to be uploaded after meeting with GIZ and GALS advisory team on 28th October.
Role Play and Song video examples
Key Inception documents
ADVANTAGE Factsheet September 2025
Equal Access Study: Final Report
UCEP original GALS Bangladesh Training Module