The instructions and supporting materials on this page help you to directly apply SPEAR's
COMPASS principles to your gender equality work.
Instructions for practical application & supporting materials
Instructions for practical application
We have prepared a set of exercises you can do alone or with your colleagues.
Find here below the instructions to apply SPEAR’s COMPASS to your unique gender equality journey.
Take a few moments and reflect about a topic/issue that is most prominent in gender equality work at your institution/faculty/department right now. Think about a desirable, rough goal in this area of gender equality work e.g. more women in institutional decision making, establishing pay equality etc.
STEP 1
Download the SMART goals worksheet, write down up to five rough gender equality objectives in this area of work in line with your chosen goal and make them SMART by reflecting on the questions provided in the worksheet.
STEP 2
Take your SMART objectives and think about the other components of COMPAS(S). How can you make your objectives COMPASS? Download the COMPASS worksheet (one for each objective) and go through the guiding questions one by one..
Props: pen and paper – access to SPEAR’s COMPASS Guide
Take some time to get an overview of the Good Practice Examples (based on the overview page) – select 3-4 that look interesting or challenging to your context.
For each selected example write down your reflections based on the following questions:
- What impressed you when you read the example? What stands out to you – and why?
- How might this be applied in your context? If not, why not? Would it need to be adapted?
- How do SPEAR's COMPASS categories provide insight that you might use in your context?
Suggested procedure: plan for a total of 20 minutes for written individual reflection. Write down answers/reflections to each question in turn.
Props: access to SPEAR’s COMPASS Guide
Take some time to get an overview of the good practice examples together or individually (based on the overview page) – select 3-4 that look interesting or challenging to your context.
Read one Good Practice Example together at a time. For each example discuss:
- In the example, what stands out to the members of the group?
- What may be applied and/or adapted to your context?
- In what ways does your measure touch upon SPEAR's COMPASS guiding principles (maybe use the guiding questions for this)?
Make sure each member of the group has the opportunity to speak during the discussion.
Suggested procedure: plan for a total of 30-60 minutes for this group reflection. Groups of three to six people.
Materials
Useful templates you can fill out individually or with your colleagues.
