They also recognized that gender mainstreaming was a key strategy for achieving gender equality.

UNDP should retain and revitalize gender mainstreaming as a programmatic strategy to achieve 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 national strategy to achieve gender equality in the public service was based on all the domestic legislation governing gender equality, to which reference had already been made.

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.

Gender equality is one of the Millennium Development Goals, and an essential strategy for reaching the other Goals.

Gender equality and gender mainstreaming

Gender equality

Gender equality

Gender equality

Gender equality overcoming pervasive gender bias

The Albanian national strategy for social and economic development, which incorporates the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) and the MDGs, has a new section on gender equality supported by a budget allocation for gender mainstreaming.

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.

Please indicate to what extent the Convention was taken into account in this Strategy and describe how implementation of the Strategy and impact on gender equality is monitored.

(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 present report reviews steps taken by the General Assembly and its Committees during its fifty ninth session to promote the achievement of gender equality through the gender mainstreaming strategy.

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.

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.

(a) The wide acknowledgement of gender mainstreaming, the goal of which is to incorporate a gender perspective in all legislation, policies, programmes and projects, as a strategy to enhance the impact of policies to promote gender equality

Following the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995), development organizations adopted gender mainstreaming' as a strategy for ensuring the incorporation of gender perspectives in all areas and sectors, and at all levels, to promote gender equality.

A gender equality strategy for the years 2005 2015 was being developed in close cooperation with government departments and international and non governmental organizations.

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).

Gender Equality as a Development Goal

C. Gender equality and women's empowerment

Gender equality and empowerment of women