Constitutional gender equality European Union policy

Practical application National policy on equality.

In 2002, BDP issued a gender equality policy note describing effective entry points for advancing gender equality.

1.3 Legal and policy commitments to gender equality are preserved

Development of methodology for evaluation of state gender equality policy and programmes effectiveness

UNDP's gender policy is based on a two pronged approach to achieving gender equality

Develop methodology for evaluation of success of the state policy and programmes dealing with Equality

The Ministry of Education therefore has a policy framework to advance gender equality in education.

Department of Women's AffairsWorking in Partnership for Equality Gender Policy Guidelines and Action Plans 2001 2003.

Several institutions have been created and reinforced as indispensable tools of a comprehensive policy for equality.

Such initiatives aim to ensure that policy commitments on gender equality are aligned with resource allocations.

One important strategy for enhancing the enabling environment for gender equality would be to more directly and explicitly link the legal and policy frameworks for promoting gender equality.

The Gender Equality Council approves the general guidelines of gender equality policy, consults the Government on issues of strategy for the promotion of gender equality and presents to the Government its position on the conformity with the Gender Equality Act of national programmes submitted by the ministries.

The commitment to achieve gender equality and justice included in the 1999 Broad Guidelines of State Policy specifically calls for the empowerment of women to achieve gender equality and justice.

The creation of gender based images has been a specific focus of concern of equality policy since 1985.

These efforts were furthered in the gender equality project that UNIFEM executed on behalf of UNDP and the Ministry of Social Affairs, resulting in the adoption of a national gender equality policy.

h) Ensure that private sector educational institutions adhere to gender equality policy to encourage equal education of women and girls

The State party points out that its policy is not discriminatory and is aimed at furthering equality between men and women.

The Secretariats are also responsible to foster initiatives against racial inequality in the country, through the National Policy on Racial Equality.

In India, the National Policy for the Empowerment of Women sought to promote gender equality in all governmental laws, policies and programmes.

As long as people are held down, corruption is sure to rise, and the only answer to this is a policy of equality.

The principle of gender equality forms an intrinsic part of personnel policy at the Ministry of Finance, which strives to attract both men and women.

Put briefly, the significance of Article 5a CEDAW is that it expresses equality as transformation it demands that different law and public policy be developed.

The Swedish Government set up a commission of inquiry in February 2004 to evaluate the goals, direction, organization and effectiveness of the gender equality policy.

Yet equality before the law was not the same as equality in rights or gender equality.

Pursuant to the UNESCO medium term strategy for 2002 2007, women's needs and a gender equality perspective are integrated into policy planning, programming, implementation and evaluation activities in all areas of UNESCO competence, with a view to promoting women's empowerment and gender equality.

Pursuant to the UNESCO medium term strategy for 2002 2007, a gender equality perspective has been integrated in policy planning, programming, implementation and evaluation activities in all areas of UNESCO competence with a view to promoting women's empowerment and achieving gender equality.

The Ministry of Education and Culture, together with the Women's Bureau, had defined a public policy and set up a programme aimed at achieving gender equality.

Countries increasingly use gender analysis of national budgets to ensure that the allocation of resources match policy commitments on gender equality and the empowerment of women.

Greater equality reinforces the ambition for still more equality.

UNESCO science policy activities in Asia and the Pacific will focus on the promotion of active participation of citizens in policy debates, to ensure that gender equality issues are taken into consideration in the design of national science and technology policies.

Viet Nam's consistent policy on gender equality and for women's advancement has once again been demonstrated by the announced National Strategy for Advancement of Vietnamese Women to 2010.

Stimulating Equality

Gender equality

Gender equality

Gender equality

The project is fully in line with UNESCO's Gender Mainstreaming Implementation Framework for the advancement of gender equality and integration of a gender perspective in policy planning and programming.

At the time of drawing up of the report, women's organisations are being consulted about the basic document for gender equality policy, which contains activities in the following fields

It also underlines the importance of the National Agreement on Gender Equality and of the National Policy on Sexual and Reproductive Health and urges further advances in these areas.

In the Netherlands, an independent external auditing committee was set up in 2004 to assess the effectiveness of the country's gender equality policy and the quality of results achieved.

In addition to the Employment Equality Act and the Equal Status Act he had just mentioned, equality was promoted by an Equality Authority.

The legal equality that women enjoy does not necessarily translate into factual equality.

Based on the Gender Equality Act the Gender Equality Council will be established.

On 4 February 2005, the European Union Ministers responsible for gender equality policy and the European Commissioner with responsibility for this portfolio participated in a European Ministerial Conference in Luxembourg.

To make decisions regarding the advancement of the national policy on gender equality, in the context of European Union and International Organizations guidelines, aiming at gender mainstreaming in all policies.