Gender Mainstreaming GM

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Gender Mainstreaming (GM)

• A strategy for making the concerns and
  experiences of women as well of men an integral
  part of all activities and programmes
• GM brings the experiences, knowledge and
  interests of women and men to work together to
  improve their lives

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Basic principles of mainstreaming (1 of 2)

• Adequate accountability mechanism for monitoring
  progress
• Assumptions that issues or problems are neutral
  from a gender equality perspective should never
  be made
• Clear political will and allocation of adequate
  resources including human and financial resources

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Basic principles of mainstreaming (2 of 2)

• Gender mainstreaming requires that efforts be
  made to broaden womens equitable participation
  at all levels of decision making
• Mainstreaming gender does not replace the need
  for targeted, women specific policies and
  programmes...

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Why GM within UN-HABITAT ? (1 of 2)

• ECOSOC Agreed Conclusions 1997/2
• mainstreaming a gender perspective into all
  policies and programmes of the UN System ( S G
  Report E/11997/66)
• ECOSOC resolution 2001/41in which the Council
  calls upon the SG and all bodies reporting to
  ECOSOC to address gender perspective in their
  reports to ECOSOC

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Why GM within UN-HABITAT (2 of 2)

• UN-HABITAT GC resolution 19/16 para 1 The GC
  requests the ED , in implementing UN-HABITAT
  Gender Policy, to promote the full integration of
  gender perspectives in all activities of
  UN-HABITAT

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Programme on Strengthening GM within UN-HABITAT (
1 of 6)

• The programme responds to calls made by the CPR
  to UN-HABITAT to increase and make visible the
  work on gender mainstreaming and womens
  empowerment
• It contributes to realizing the 1999 Strategic
  vision gender and womens empowerment will be
  used as an indicator for success of UN-HABITAT.

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Programme on Strengthening GM within UN-HABITAT (
2 of 6)

• Organization of the programme
• 1. Self assessment
• Identify skills gap, learning needs
• Identify obstacles and challenges encountered,
  best practices and strategies for future
• Report of self assessment to be presented to
  Senior Management Board, and GC through CPR

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Programme on Strengthening GM within UN-HABITAT (
3 of 6)

• 2. Revitalization of Gender Task Force
• Divisions/Branches/Unit to nominate one
  professional staff as a gender focal point
• Capacity building in gender analysis skills (
  planning, budgeting, etc.) of gender focal points
  
• .

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Programme on Strengthening GM within UN-HABITAT
(4 of 6)

• 3. Capacity building in gender analysis
• (i) Preparation of a handbook on gender
  mainstreaming in human settlements in close
  collaboration with the relevant Divisions and
  Branches
• Organization of a tailor made workshops for each
  Divisions/Branches Handbook to be pre-tested

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Programme on Strengthening GM within UN-HABITAT
(5of 6)

• After the workshops, Divisions Branches and Unit
  will be encouraged to prepare action plans on
  gender and womens empowerment
• GMU will maintain contact and work closely with
  various Divisions, Branches /Units through
  regular meetings

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Programme on Strengthening GM within UN-HABITAT
(6 of 6)

• GMU would like to be invited in
  Divisions/Branches/Units staff meetings to
  explain this programme, if necessary.

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• Thank you