My experience at FOWODE
This is my personal experiences at Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE) during a three-week internship in July 2012. I relay my experience with FOWODE projects and how they fit into the greater mission of the organization, as well as how these assignments and l experiences relate to where FOWODE is moving in the future. http://www.slideshare.net/FOWODE_1/documents M y major assignment was drafting FOWODE’s gender policy which would be an addendum to the human resources manual that governs staff at FOWODE. Originally, based on my research, I thought this document was going to be a 20 page report on how FOWODE does gender in the larger community, including overviews of all of their projects, past, current and future but it turned out to be an overwhelming task. I reviewed the organization HIV/AIDS work place policy and the Human Resource policy and once I understood the general format that they were looking for, I began to research women’s rights organizations and other U...