NATIONAL PROGRAM
What’s in a name?
Uma mulher GRANDE! = A BIG woman! (size)
Uma GRANDE mulher! = A GREAT woman! (quality)
MIL Mulheres = A THOUSAND Women! (quantity)
Mulheres MIL = TOP GRADE Women! (quality)
Thousand Women – Brief History
Brazil-Canada Cooperation
 Partnership between Niagara College and CEFET/RN – 2003/2004
 2005 – Start development of the project
 Empowerment in Tourism
 Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR)
 Conclusion in 2005 with the empowerment of 60 women
 Consolidation of the cooperation – Thousand Women Pilot Project
 ACCC/SETEC/CEFETRN prepared and submitted the Thousand Women
Project to CIDA and ABC (Brazilian Cooperation Agency) – expansion of the
project to 12 more institutions within the Federal Network of
Technological Vocational Education.
 Focus on the promotion of equity, social inclusion, access to top quality
education and the labor market, citizenship awareness and local
development.
Guiding Axes
Based on the Education, Citizenship Awareness, and Sustainable
Development axes, the program offers technological and vocational
empowerment by creating the necessary bridges, so that women can
enhance their productive potential, improve the life conditions of
their lives, families and communities as well as their sustainable
economic growth towards a fair social inclusion and full exercise of
citizenship rights and duties.
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Results and Impacts
Data from 2008 to 2011
 Empowered Women: 1.191
 Dropout Rate: 15, 87%
 Employability (in March/2011):
 670 certified women
 18,76% entered the labor market
Note: The figures above do not include the community
associations, entrepreneurial actions and those hire by
the informal labor market.
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More Results and Impacts
Indirect Impacts
 Rescue of students’ self-esteem;
 Improvement in the family relations and structures; in the
organization of their community everyday life;
 Going back to school to continue their studies;
 Improvement of their kids’ school performance;
 Stimulate other women to search similar schooling upgrade and
vocational training; productive inclusion.
 Reduction of domestic violence; women’s emancipation and
empowerment;
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Thousand Women – The New Cycle
 The Thousand Women national program is among
the affirmative public policies of social inclusion
and equity. It’s one actions within the “Brazil
without Poverty” Plan, which is part of the set of
priorities concerning the Brazilian government
public policies, especially under the following
axes: promotion of equity, gender, fighting
violence against women and women’s access to
education and the labor market.
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International Targets
Priorities under the international scope
 It aims to contribute to achieve the 2021 Educational Goals: the education
we wish for the bicentennial generation sponsored by the Organization of
Ibero-American States (OEI) and approved the Chiefs of States and
Governments from the member countries in December, 2010.
 The Thousand Women Program will contribute to the following goals:
- Goal 2: Reach educational equity and overcome all kinds of discrimination in
education;
- Goal 6: Favor the connection between education and labor through
technical vocational education;
- Goal 7: Offer everyone access to education throughout life.
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Program Objectives
 Promote the educational, social and productive inclusion of
women under social vulnerability;
 Provide non-traditional students access to technical
vocational education;
 Offer technical vocational courses and programs as well as
schooling upgrade and citizenship awareness (160-hour class
load);
 Articulate mechanisms and connections towards the insertion
of recent grads into the labor market by stimulating
entrepreneurship,
the
solidarity
associations
and
employability.;
 Implement the Thousand Women Observatory in all the
development nuclei of the Program;
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More Program Objectives
 Establish a network for the exchange of good practices and
information dissemination;
 Articulate mechanisms and connections to carry out academic
and applied researches in the social and technological fields
related to the Program;
 Empower technically and pedagogically the multi-disciplinary
teams, who are members of the “Access, Retention and
Success” methodology of the Thousand Women Program;
 Implement the Certification Seal of the Thousand Women
methodology.
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Program Target
 Between 2011 to 2014, the Program foresees the
empowerment of 1.000 women, who live in
boroughs with low human development rate or/and
members of the citizenship territories.
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Actions in 2011
Nationalization
 Launching of the Program and call for applications;
 99 campuses of the Federal Institutes (IFs) join the program;
 Empowerment of institutional managers;
 Implementation of 99 new Thousand Women Access Offices.
Campuses joining the program in 2011
Actions in 2012
 New Call for Applications in 2012 with the approval of 102
new campuses;
 Managers Empowerment – May 21 to 25, 2011 and June 11 to
15, 2012;
 Expand national partnerships;
 Enroll 20.000 women;
 Disseminate the “Access, Retention, Success” methodology
within the State Networks of Vocational Education.
Partners – Joint Actions
 OEI – Dissemination of methodology and monitoring;
 MDS – Articulation with city governments (social
demands), financing in emergency areas;
 SDH – Offer of empowerment training on human
rights, a joint action with the Reference Center of
Rights; articulation towards the implementation of
solidary incubators;
 Articulation with the city governments in order to
provide facilities and skilled staff.
Further information in Brazil:
Website: http://mulheresmil.mec.gov.br/
E-mail: [email protected]
Prof. Gutenberg Albuquerque – Dean for Extension/IFCE
“Very proud to be the first man to be empowered by the
Thousand Women Program”
E-mail: [email protected]
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