Gender Equality and Anti-Discrimination Programmes
The Gender Equality and Anti-Discrimination Office (GEAD) does Advocacy and Training on Anti-Discrimination and Sexual Equity, Constitutional rights, LGBTIQ+ awareness, Gender transformation, Safe Space training, Diversity and Sensitivity training.
Contact: Any of the GEAD officers on the three respective campuses
Programmes:
- Safety Zone Training
- Gender Sensitisation
- Sexuality Sensitisation
- Sexual harassment training
- GEAD induction
Partners: Free State Rainbow seeds (LGBTQIA NGO and NPO), Organisation that support MSM.
Mainly conducts the sexuality sensitisation
Commission for Gender Equality(CGE): Statutory watchdog. Chapter 9 Institution.
The CGE, as a Chapter 9 institution, has a constitutional mandate to promote the protection, development, and attainment of gender equality. This constitutional obligation mandates the CGE to monitor and hold any entity within a public or private sector, accountable to their Constitutional obligations.
- South African Human Rights Commission: Chapter 9 institution.
- Father a nation: Partner in our positive Masculinities Project.
- Sonke Gender Justice: Partner in our positive Masculinities Project.
- Centre for Gender and Africa Studies (UFS).
- Partner in the SAAGS (Southern African Association for Gender Studies)
- Department of Sociology. Partner in our positive Masculinities Project.