Two of the revised provisions concern issues of gender equality

While some projects addressed gender issues, others paid little or no attention to gender relations and 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.

NGOs provided regular input to government institutions through their participation in the Council for Gender Equality, the Inter ministerial Working Group on Gender Equality Issues and other relevant working groups.

Gender equality and gender mainstreaming

The Ministry of Gender Equality had been expanded and restructured, renamed the Ministry of Gender Equality and the Family, and given responsibility for family policies such as child rearing and family health in addition to gender issues.

Gender equality

Gender equality

Gender equality

Given their Resident Coordinator role, UNDP Resident Representatives should provide leadership on gender equality issues and gender mainstreaming within the United Nations system.

Gender equality overcoming pervasive gender bias

We encourage the measures, albeit still limited, that have been taken in promoting gender equality, including the filling of obvious gender gaps and the revisiting of legal issues, together with the development of an action plan for gender equality.

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

Gender Equality Act

Gender Equality Council

Promoting gender equality

The General Secretariat for Gender Equality and the Research Centre for Gender Equality (K.E.TH.I.

The Gender Equality Act stipulates an obligation of employers actively to promote gender equality.

We welcome the focus on gender equality in development issues, but we would also like to see a focus on gender equality and the role of women in efforts to promote peace and conflict resolution.

Several delegations welcomed the focus on gender issues in the focus area on basic education and gender equality but also wanted clear mainstreaming of gender concerns in the other areas.

The Republicans should not have been caught off guard by Americans interest in issues like disenfranchisement and gender equality.

(a) Gender equality factors

The Gender Equality Commissioner

The Gender Equality Act provides for the creation of a new institution the Gender Equality Commissioner.

The NGOs also had their share in development of State Action Plan on Gender Issues and other processes of development of policies and legislation promoting gender equality.

Discussion groups on gender issues equality, HIV AIDS, effects of globalisation speaker from FAO Volunteering Challenges to the Rural Community.

While a single authority dealing with gender issues might have advantages, the approach of the Equality Authority also had merits.

The UNDP gender mainstreaming mandate includes promoting gender equality.

Two new institutions will be created according to the Act Gender Equality Commissioner and Gender Equality Council.

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

BiH Law on Gender Equality

Women's position and gender equality

Gender equality in economic life.

European policies for gender equality

General Secretariat for Gender Equality

(Research Centre for Gender Equality)

Promoting gender equality (MDG 3)

Gender equality in legal acts

That ultimately hindered gender equality.

Gender center of Republika Srpska opened offices in Banja Luka, Prijedor, Gradiška and Laktaši with the task to deal with issues of gender Equality at local community level.

They began to identify processes and tools that would encourage greater accountability when addressing gender equality issues and to improve the collection and dissemination of data, disaggregated by gender.

All staff Basic sensitization to the importance of gender issues for the mandate and goals of UNDP, and the implications of gender equality at the personal and professional levels.

Gender equality issues were addressed by a number of parliamentary bodies, including the Gender Equality Subcommission of the Commission on Human Rights and Public Affairs and the Women's Interparliamentary Cooperation Group, and by specially designated officials in every government Ministry.

The Spanish administration has also promoted gender based positive discrimination by approving gender equality legislation in 2007 aimed at providing equality between genders in Spanish political and economic life (Gender Equality Act).

9 Taking Action Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering Women (Millennium Project, Task Force on Education and Gender Equality, 2005).