Constitutional gender equality European Union policy

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

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

1.3 Legal and policy commitments to gender equality are preserved

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.

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

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

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.

Gender equality and gender mainstreaming

Gender equality

Gender equality

Gender equality

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

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

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.

Gender equality overcoming pervasive gender bias

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.

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.

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

(a) Gender equality factors

The Gender Equality Commissioner

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.

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

An increasing number of Member States utilize gender mainstreaming and specific interventions to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women. Policy frameworks for gender mainstreaming have improved at national level.

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.

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

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.

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).

ensure that gender analysis is an integral part of all its activities make support for gender equality a key element of its policy dialogue with partners and develop strategies to ensure its capacity for gender mainstreaming, including policy making, expertise, and human and financial resources.