Symposium on the Harmonisation of Gender Indicators

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Symposium on the Harmonisation of Gender
Indicators Canberra, Australia 15-16 June 2006
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• Millennium Development Goal 3
• To promote gender equality and empower women
  (ensure girls have the same access to education
  as boys)
• Indicators to track progress, as proposed by the
  UN Millennium Taskforce
• Strategic Priority 5 EMPLOYMENT
• Share of women in employment, both wage and
  self-employment, by type
• Gender gaps in earnings in wage and
  self-employment

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ABMs Community Development Program in the
Philippines

• Context
• Remote, mountainous communities in the north
  south of the country
• Target groups indigenous peoples (tribal
  minorities)
• Identified as being most marginalised
  impoverished groups
• Harsh demanding environment esp for women

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ABMs Community Development Program in the
Philippines

• Sectors
• 2 primary sectors provision of basic water
  sanitation support for cooperatives
• Water Sanitation provision of basic water
  systems (potable water), provision of communal
  sanitation facilities, plus health and livelihood
  components
• Cooperatives provision of post-harvest and
  basic irrigation facilities managed cooperatively
• - support for microfinance activities thru
  credit loan cooperatives

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Implementation Strategy

• Working thru local church community development
  structure
• - church closely identified w/ indigenous
  groups their social justice issues
• Grassroots approach using participatory rural
  appraisal in each community
• Extended design mobilisation phase to promote
  local ownership
• On-going support to monitor evaluate
  sustainability
• Lasting relationships with communities
• - commitment to maintaining relationships
  established by projects

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Promoting Gender Equality

• Water Sanitation
• Primary objective reduce physical burden on
  women children in the carrying of water and the
  demands on their time
• (associated program awareness-raising in
  respect of health issues including sexual and
  reproductive health domestic violence)
• Integrated approach to utilize opportunities from
  the provision of water create and support
  income-generating activities giving women access
  to disposable incomes
• - share of women in employment, both wage
  self- employment, by type
• - gender gaps in earnings in wage
  self-employment
• Target specific groups of most marginalised women
  in the communities
• Train/skill women in resource finance
  management (i.e. teaching to raise hogs save
  thru the local coop)

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Promoting Gender Equality

• Cooperatives
• Primary Objective income generation benefiting
  the whole community
• Strategic intervention targeting the poorest of
  the poor women are the primary focus of this
  type of intervention
• - share of women in employment, both wage
  self- employment, by type
• - gender gaps in earnings in wage
  self-employment
• Womens groups in some instances provide the
  organisational structure for the coops (Uma
  Rice/Corn Mill)

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• Mainstreaming gender
• Incorporates gender analysis in all aspects of
  project work
• Gender issues and womens involvement in the
  design process examined thru ABMs appraisal
  process
• Monitored and evaluated thru the life of the
  project
• In-country development partners encouraged to
  model good gender practice
• Have, over the course of project involvement,
  developed better practice in terms of gender
  issues

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Gender Sensitivity Program

• Specific programs identified and resourced by
  partner
• Workshops with communities encourages
  communities to make gender analysis
• Looks at decision-making in the community on the
  basis of gender
• Support increased opp for women in
  decision-making

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• Gender and Development Analysis
• 1. Context
• Profile on Gender Division of Labour
• Analysis of Current Control over Productive
  resources
• 2. Gender Analysis of Proposal
• Access control over activitys benefits
• 3. Checklist
• Activity Preparation Design
• Activity Implementation Monitoring
• Activity Evaluation

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Gender Indicators

• Share of women in employment, both wage
  self-employment, by type
• - Assessed during design phase thru
  socio-economic profiling of the community
• - Specifically monitored
• - Included in evaluation
• e.g.microfinance activities
• Gender gaps in earnings in wage and
  self-employment
• - (same as above)

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Issues

• Reluctance of individuals to provide information
  on income in small communities (issues of
  confidentiality status)
• Extended/communal households difficult to
  assess income assigning of income between one
  household member to another
• Government services are often times unreliable
  and variable that data collection and sharing is
  highly problematic
• Difficulties in quantifying unpaid non-market
  work of women
• Behavioural change complicated by issues of
  culture
• - imposing gender representation seldom of
  lasting benefit
• Work on gender has impacted on implementing
  partner and challenged the church in its own way
  of looking at gender which in turn has resulted
  in changes such as the ordination of women, and
  inclusion of women in key church and development
  roles and that impacts on the gender practice of
  the program.

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