Poverty, Gender and Human Rights

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Poverty, Gender and Human Rights
to ensure that gender concerns and womens
empowerment are addressed in the CCA UNDAF
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Introduction(1)

• Gender - key development and human rights issue
• Integration gender analysis and programming in
  the CCA/UNDAF
• Gender/culture core perspective to implement
  human rights
• Gender Mainstreaming and Reproductive Rights as
  Human Rights.
• Participatory consultation and planning processes

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Introduction (2)

• CEDAW Convention on the Elimination of all
  Discrimination against Women (1979, General
  Assembly )
• UN Conferences gender and human rights
• 93,94,95 and its revisions
• Millennium Development Goals (2000)
• Goal 3 and others

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Analysis (1)

• If the right questions are not asked, situation
  analysis will ignore important gender
  differences
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• CCA/UNDAF will not respond to the womens human
  rights approach.

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CCA/UNDAF 2002 Gender Assessments to explore the
gender-responsiveness (Unicef,Unifem)

• Gender Analysis
• Concentration on the education, health and
  microeconomic sectors
• Missing on finance, taxation, industry and
  employment
• Irregular inclusion on agriculture, transport,
  water, environment
• Few links CCA/UNDAF and CEDAW, Beijing or
  National Plans of Action for Women

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CCAs LatinAmerican 2005

• Modest or inconsistent use of data
• Modest use or no inclusion of initiatives related
  on Laws and Policies
• Children and Adolescents without gender analysis
• No use of information provided by CEDAW Reports
• Roles
• Inter-Agency Gender Theme Group
• Peer Support Groups Quality Assurance

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CCA with a gender perspective (1)

• Poverty
• Is there in the country any evidence on the
  feminization of poverty in different regions?
• Is there any evidence on gender inequalities in
  law or in the definition or implementation public
  policies ?
• Is there evidence on gender discrimination in
  economic, political, cultural and social rights
  according the different levels of poverty?

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CCA with a gender perspective (2)

• Data Collection
• Is there in the country collecting and analyzing
  social, economic and demographic data considering
  a gender, racial and ethnic perspective?
• Is the information collected used in order to
  plan and enable economic and social development
  with a gender perspective?

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CCA with a gender perspective (3)

• Violence against women
• Is there a public recognition of violence against
  women as a central national problem to be
  addressed?
• Is there a process to revise existing national
  and local legislation related to gender violence?
  
• Are national laws and policies in line with
  regional and international conventions?

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CCA with a gender perspective

• Reproductive Health
• Is there any policies to promote, respect an
  defend the right to access basic services on
  reproductive health to poor women?
• Is there any policy dialogue among Government
  and civil society about these rights?

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CCA with a gender perspective (4)

• HIV/AIDS
• Are there increased awareness and access to
  sexual and reproductive health services to
  specially vulnerable women groups?
• Are there advocacy campaigns for the revision of
  laws and practices in order to promote the
  rights of women and girls in the context of the
  HIV /AIDS epidemic?

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Good Practice UNDAF

• Guatemala
• UNDAF highlights ethnic-cultural discrimination
  of women, girls and indigenous adolescents
• Gender disparities in education
• Imbalance in access to basic health and nutrition
  services is addressed
• Social services are to be monitored on the basis
  of sex-disaggregated data

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Good Practice (2)

• Specific indication on government accountability
  mechanisms
• Institucionalization and maisntreaming of gender
  at various levels
• Womens participation and representation is
  targeted at municipal and national level
• Sex-disaggregated data in the indicators

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UN Millennium Project an operational framework

• Recommendations Gender Task Force
• Expanding educational opportunities
• Ensuring access to sexual and reproductive health
  and rights
• Reducing time burdens
• Guaranteeing inheritance rights
• Improving income-generating opportunities
• Reducing violence against girls and women, and
• Improving political participation.

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CCA/UNDAF

• DO use national resources specialized in gender
• DO use problem-tree analysis
• DO address root causes of gender inequalities and
  discrimination
• DO consider to have outcomes explicitly
  articulated
• DO use specific gender indicators
• DO integrate into monitoring and evaluation.