i. Gender Equity Policy

Promoting greater gender equity.

Gender Equity Policy and The Nine Benchmarks

Special communiqué on violence against women and gender equity

Special communiqué on violence against women and gender equity

The themes discussed during the meeting, hosted by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL), were Gender Poverty, Economy and Equity and Empowerment, Institutional Development and Gender Equity .

As indicated in the Background section, the Gender Equity Policy of the Comprehensive Reform Programme highlighted the directive to Ministries to incorporate gender equity policies in their programmes.

Elsa Gomez, Equity, Gender and Health Policy Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Not to be forgotten is the unfulfilled agenda of gender equity.

Women's health promotion could be a practical approach to achieve greater gender equity.

In 2003, the Gender and Social Equity Committee of the House of Representatives had been set up which, together with the Equity, Gender and Social Development Committee of the Senate, ensured that draft legislation promoted equality and non discrimination of women.

However, education for women was a step forward in gender equity in the workplace and society.

The General Secretariat for Gender Equality underlines the need of handling the gender equality issue in terms of equity, not discrimination.

As a result nine benchmarks or goals were adopted under the Gender Equity policy

The gender equality objective in education is underpinned by commitment to the 1997 document entitled Gender Equity A Framework for Australian Schools .

That trend is now decreasing as Bangladesh has made significant progress towards achieving gender equity.

The Gender Equity Framework binds all school systems in Australia to 10 principles for action.

In 1997 Government introduced the Gender Equity Policy under the Comprehensive Reform Programme directing Government machineries to incorporate gender perspectives in their programmes.

2.21 One of the targeted actions identified under the Gender Equity Policy in 1997 to ensure gender neutrality was to review discriminatory laws.

To effect these plans, an Equity Desk was established under the Department of Strategic Management and a Social Equity Task Force with representatives from both Government and civil society organizations were appointed to monitor the development and implementation of the Gender Equity Policy.

The mainstreaming of gender in all government business, including national sectoral planning and macroeconomic policy, is a central objective under the Gender Equity Policy of the CRP.

Promoting greater gender equity is one of the ten priority areas of the National Health Policy.

Affirm gender equality and equity as prerequisites to sustainable development and ensure universal access to education, health care and economic opportunity.

In addition, UNFPA seeks to create enabling environments that foster gender equity and equality, cultural sensitivity and partnerships, which complement UNFPA efforts.

With this aim, Gender center FBiH, in cooperation with Gender center RS, supported by IBHI, has prepared a project called Gender Equality and equity in BiH , which is co financed by the Government of the Republic of Finland.

10.1 Vanuatu has progressed well toward achieving gender equity in school enrolments especially at the primary and junior secondary levels of education.

Senegal had established institutional mechanisms designed to promote gender equity and the social and economic empowerment of women, while remaining sensitive to cultural mores.

Since 1997, the purpose of the Pay Equity Act is to redress differences in compensation due to systemic gender discrimination.

The Department of Education, for example, has had a policy of gender equity in the distribution of scholarships since 1997.

Women members of political parties have made major efforts to improve their organizations' compliance with their commitments to gender equity.

The UNGEI will intensify efforts to influence decision making and budgets in favour of gender equity and equality in national education policies, SWAps and programmes.

The Institute's task is to provide guidance in the formulation, promotion, execution and assessment of Government policies, plans, programmes and projects to promote gender equity.

This aims at, among other activities, reinforcing the institutional technical capacity of the ministry for implementation and coordination of programs that promote equality and equity in gender, and improvement of gender integration in all aspects of social and economic plans.

Foster the training of indigenous women in order to gain leadership skills to become community advocates and defenders for indigenous women's rights to achieve gender equity.

During the period covered by this report, the National Police has incorporated gender equity as a cross cutting element in its modernization process.

The capacities of equity mechanisms have been strengthened through training for their managers in gender issues, project management, strategic planning, new information and communication technologies, and mass mobilization.

Implementation of the gender equality and equity agenda is still overly dependent on resources provided by international partners because the State budget has not allocated enough resources to institutions promoting the advancement of women or to the gender policy framework.

Within the Muslim Middle East, the oil rich states score much lower on indices of gender equity than oil poor states such as Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, and Syria.

Ms. Manalo said that she would be grateful for further clarification as to the State party's understanding of the difference between the concepts of equality and gender equity.

During the reporting period, Nicaragua made progress in setting up a national system of gender indicators, strengthening the institutional framework for the advancement of women and designing, adopting and implementing a series of general and sectoral public policies relating to gender equity and equality.

In Cambodia, UNFPA and UNICEF, working with the United Nations Resident Coordinator, ensured that the 2006 2010 UNDAF includes a focus on reaching and empowering vulnerable groups and promoting gender equity.

Senegal had recently launched a 10 year national strategy to ensure gender equity, in line with benchmarks established under its poverty reduction strategy and with the Millennium Development Goals.

We need to recognize that major prerequisites for women's health are peace, housing, education, social security, social relations, food, income, empowerment, gender equity, sustainable resource use, and social justice.

The Pre School Association does not have a gender equity policy as evidenced by the huge disparity of female trained pre school teachers compared with males.

The key common denominators will be the recognition and encouragement of innovation, developing methodologies to identify and harness traditional and indigenous resources and knowledge, and the goals of gender equity and community participation.