Jive Partners

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Jive Partners
creating change for women and girls in
engineering, construction technology
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Context and rationale

• High gender segregation in the science,engineering
  , construction and technology sectors
• 2001 -no national strategy for tackling this
• Interventions piecemeal and fragmented
• The deficit model
• Cultural change of the industries themselves
• Holistic model of intervention
• mainstreaming good practice
• developing an infrastructure to tackle
  occupational segregation

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Joint Responsibility for Cultural Change
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Aims

• Create culture and practice change within the
  engineering, construction and technology sectors.
• Enable girls and women to overcome the barriers
  preventing them entering, staying and succeeding.

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JIVE Partners activity
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Project Aims and Targets

• Over 1,600 beneficiaries
• Learning Providers 500
• Careers and Connexions- 300
• Employers 250
• ECITB/ PSNTO testing ground
• Mentoring 700
• ICT MCSE and Teacher training - 80

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sectors / regional hubs
ECITB - Sector Hub AMA pilot Test bed
The Womens Workshop, Cardiff -Welsh
Hub Careers Learning providers Mentoring Employers
ICT
Bradford College Sheffield Hallam University Caree
rs Learning providers Mentoring Employers
ECITB
Yand H
OWTS - South East Hub Careers Learning
providers Mentoring Employers ICT
WEB London Hub Careers Learning
providers Mentoring Employers
Wales
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S.E
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National Partners

• 10 original partners 1 in 2003
• 3 voluntary sector organisations in a central
  position
• 2 HEIs
• 2 FE colleges
• 2 SSCs- ECITB and Skills Alliance
• EOC- policy conduit
• 2 transnational partnerships

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What is being tested? Products/processes

• Holistic model of intervention for cultural
  change
• Change process with hard end of the industry
  vocational training providers careers
  professionals
• Regional hub infrastructure as a delivery model
• Central pool of trainers as equality experts
• Interventions themselves as being
  appropriate/hitting the mark
• Blueprint of interventions for employers-cultural
  audit tool
• Training materials-
• Mentoring training
• How to overcome stereotyping in careers
• ICT troubleshooting training pilot
• Bespoke training for learning providers and
  employers

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Lessons learned

• Different starting points of regional hubs
• No money nationally to match fund the programme
• Equal as a theme not well known across government
• Change agents on the ground essential for real
  cultural change
• Vision of holism v.siloed approach
• Delivery at expense of development
• Staff induction-could have spent longer
• Products-could have spent more time developing
  these initially
• Mismatch between targets and profiling and
  innovation

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Achievements

• European Thematic Networking Group -selected
• A model of good practice in partnership
  working-represented UK at EU
• UK Resource Centre for Women in SET-awarded
  contract

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Mainstreaming

• Jive is now implementing the governments strategy
  on women in SET
• Trying to influence that strategy with what we
  know works on the ground
• Coordinating the implementation of initiatives to
  achieve critical mass
• Access to additional funding, direct access to
  government interventions, policy makers,
  ministers
• Still a good ten years of work to do