GENDER & YOUTH MAINSTREAMING EVENT GUIDELINES

The Gender & Youth Mainstreaming Event Guidelines by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) offer a framework for organizing inclusive workshops, conferences, and forums. The guide details specific actions for pre-event planning, such as ensuring gender parity on panels and using disaggregated data for question design; during-event management, including equal speaking time and inclusive Q&A; and post-event reporting, focusing on gender parity and youth feedback. It emphasizes that gender and youth considerations should be integrated across all technical topics, not treated as isolated issues.

• Pre-event planning should prioritize diversity in the planning group and ensure gender parity and youth representation among facilitators, moderators, speakers, and panelists. Organizers are advised to schedule events at accessible times and locations, accounting for social factors like care duties that may hinder the participation of women and youth.
• To avoid the tendency of some attendees, particularly men, to skip diversity-focused sessions, the guide recommends placing gender and youth sessions in prominent, central locations during the middle of the day. Furthermore, women and gender experts should be invited to speak on all topics, including technical subjects, rather than being limited to "women's issues".
• During events, moderators and chairs must ensure equal visibility and speaking time for all participants regardless of perceived status. The guide suggests that selecting a woman to ask the first question during a Q&A session may encourage other female attendees to participate.
• Post-event activities should include public reporting on the achievement or lack of gender parity and the use of gender- and age-disaggregated data to identify areas for improvement. Organizers should specifically solicit feedback from youth participants to assess their involvement.

APA

Sustainable Energy for All (n.d.). GENDER & YOUTH MAINSTREAMING EVENT GUIDELINES. https://www.seforall.org/system/files/2026-02/Event%20Guidelines%20EXTERNAL%20SEforALL-report-template-PDF.pdf

Chicago

Sustainable Energy for All. GENDER & YOUTH MAINSTREAMING EVENT GUIDELINES. n.d. https://www.seforall.org/system/files/2026-02/Event%20Guidelines%20EXTERNAL%20SEforALL-report-template-PDF.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{sustainableenergyforallndgender, author = {{Sustainable Energy for All}}, title = {{GENDER \& YOUTH MAINSTREAMING EVENT GUIDELINES}}, institution = {Sustainable Energy for All}, url = {https://www.seforall.org/system/files/2026-02/Event%20Guidelines%20EXTERNAL%20SEforALL-report-template-PDF.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }