Key Strategic Areas | Centre for Gender Research, Advocacy and Documentation

Organise workshops on qualitative research and methodology for lecturers and graduate students
Make input into software requirement for gender sensitive research for staff and students
Organise training on software for gender sensitive research
Create a data base of staff and students’ publications on gender for CEGRAD library & university online library resource
Provide a fully equipped gender resource e- materials for CEGRAD library
Subscribe to journals in the area of gender studies by cegrad
Audit gender related publication of faculty in UCC based on capacity, research grants and citations
Build an interactive gender related research and publication database for CEGRAD
Institute annual awards schemes on gender to foster team work in researching and adhering to gender sensitivity
Establish an online database system of international research collaborations for cegrad
Develop a roadmap to improve CEGRAD research fellows and affiliates research ranking on recognised international platforms
Promote publication of gender related research in recognised journals by faculty within the university
Subscribe to journals in the area of gender studies by cegrad
Institutionalize periodic alert on faculty publishing in gender related journals

Promote gender sensitivity of lecturers and university administration to respond to student and staff needs
Promote gender sensitivity of staff all units and department in charge of dealing with students with special needs to support teaching and learning
Make input into policies concerning staff and students engagement
Develop handbook on gender for the university
Organise sexual harassment and gender-based violence awareness programmes for students, Lecturers, the sexual harassment committee and the general university community
Strengthen redress of sexual harassment and gender-based violence in the university community
Develop online reporting system for sexual harassment and gender-based violence
Institute online data gathering system for sexual harassment and gender-based violence
Procure apps for redressing sexual harassment and gender-based violence and research
Strengthen human resource management
improved sanitation facilities that adequately caters for both genders and persons with disability
Advocate for nursing rooms for staff and students
Advocate for seats that are pregnancy and disability compliant
Advocate for the provision of staff and students with recreational facilities that respond to their gender needs
Advocate for disability compliant parking spaces
Undertake a gender audit of the university staff needs
Advocate for family friendly benefits for male staff

Support female faculty in the university to improve their research ranking
Build capacity of CEGRAD staff on writing research and grant awards proposals
Promote co-authorship
Recruit international researchers with signiﬁcant track
Attract and collaborate with international academics with track record in gender research
Undertake sponsorship drive for scholarships for staff
Establish gender balance in scholarship awards
Increase scholarship for PhD programmes in the area of gender
Improve terms and condition of service- Monitor adherence to ILO, Provisions on gender discrimination and maternity protection, Monitor adherence to Ghana’s labour act on gender discrimination workshops for staff on labour laws and women’s work rights Organised

Increase organisational capacity through public relations and partnership development. The guiding items are:

Undertake research and organise outreach and advocacy activities that places the university as a leader in the achievement of gender equality
Promote UCC as an equal opportunity institution in recruitment and enrolment of students
Identify industry, national and international community for gender related activities and research projects
Showcase the outputs of CEGRADs research activities
Promote Community-based Social Laboratories
Subscribe to databases that publicize calls for Research Proposals
Intensify the promotion of multidisciplinary and international collaborative research and co- authorship on gender issues
Publicize CEGRAD’s identity and activities
Develop plan of action for engagement with relevant government units and corporate bodies
Institutionalize activities with partners and collaborators
Develop incentive scheme for CEGRAD's partners and collaborators
Collaborate with other stakeholders and constituents in the university on gender research and advocacy & outreach activities

Undertake gender audit of the university community and its activities
Advocate for a gender sensitive guidelines on the composition of statutory committees
Update guidelines on roles and responsibilities of the sexual harassment committee
Promote gender aware leadership development training programmes in University
Implement recommendation emanating from the gender audit of the devolved decentralised administrative system
Track the decentralised systems adherence to gender sensitivity
Develop appraisal mechanisms for monitoring the performance of leaders on gender sensitivity
Make input mechanisms on mentoring for newly appointed teaching and non-teaching staff
Create an ombudsperson's office with a CEGRAD representative
Advocate for increased employment ratio of females
Encourage the university’s adherence ILO and the labour law provision on employment and labour relations
Create mechanisms for a gender and family friendly work benefits for teaching and non-teaching staff
Incorporate gender mainstreaming guidelines into all policies and programmes of the University
Establish rapid- response system to address all forms of discrimination
Institute system for monitoring equal opportunities
Strengthen strategies that provide equal opportunity for all in the University
Organise gender sensitive ethical practice training in the workplace for staff
Organise sexual harassment training and sensitisation of its implication for work and learning
Engender HR policy on recruitment