European policies for gender equality

Specific policies and action plans on gender mainstreaming

Mainstreaming a gender perspective into national policies and programmes

Incorporation of gender perspectives into sectoral policies and programmes

Goal 5. Human resources policies and practices aligned with corporate commitment to gender equality and gender balance

The various structures for implementing gender mainstreaming policies have reflected the attitude of UNDP towards gender mainstreaming.

1.158 Gender and disability mainstreaming policies will have been implemented.

In addition to establishing general policies on gender mainstreaming, a number of countries have developed specific policies and action plans on mainstreaming gender perspectives into different sector areas.

In policy development the gender issue is that many development policies, programs and activities are unfavourably gender biased.

(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

They also incorporated gender equality provisions in promotions and remuneration policies.

It defines policies and lines of action to promote gender equality.

Bangladesh and Zimbabwe reported that the establishment of a gender focal point system facilitated gender mainstreaming in sectoral policies.

Gender budget analysis in State HDRs provided important leverage of resources to promote gender outcomes and mainstream gender into national and State policies and budgets.

The revised version of the Gender Equality Act of Norway (2002) enhanced the responsibility for gender mainstreaming in public policies.

Its objective is to facilitate gender mainstreaming of projects, programmes and policies.

J. Strengthening African statistical systems to generate gender disaggregated data to support policies to promote gender equality and empowerment of women

Canada devised a gender based analysis policy, which is being used to systematically integrate gender perspective into all policies and programmes.

It was therefore necessary to introduce a gender perspective in all fiscal policies and to develop among other gender sensitive initiatives  budgetary, social, employment, education and vocational training policies based on that perspective.

Brazil held its first national conference on women policies in July 2004 to prepare guidelines for gender mainstreaming in national policies.

SADC had developed a policy framework on gender, upon which the member States continued to draw in developing their national gender policies.

1.5 Resource mobilization and allocations support the implementation of gender equality plans and policies

(a) Macro level. Policies and laws strengthened to achieve gender equality in democratic governance

Create structures and mechanisms to initiate the process of mainstreaming gender in regular policies.

SADC countries had mainstreamed a gender perspective in most of their policies and legislations.

Policies and mandates are without effect if UNDP staff do not understand gender, or lack the skills to mainstream gender in their work.

Develop, implement and evaluate policies and strategies on gender mainstreaming in all humanitarian assistance programmes.

2.1 Sex disaggregated data are available and used to devise and monitor gender responsive policies

UNDP has invested resources, promoted policies and monitored progress towards gender equality within the organization.

(e) Mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system

The Seminar was an important step toward integrating the issue of gender into educational policies.

Much of the gender training and awareness to incorporate a gender perspective in national policies has been carried out by the Department of Women's Affairs.

(c) Meso level. Gender equality advocates have the knowledge and capacity to spearhead and transform policies and programmes to promote gender equality in democratic governance

Efforts were being made to mainstream the gender perspective in all policies, programmes, plans and human resources functions in order to achieve full gender equality.

Also, government departments were slow to embrace gender sensitive policies as their own sectoral policies, instead viewing them as separate and specific measures for women.

Underlining the need to mainstream a gender perspective in all policies and programmes relating to children,

Underlining the need for mainstreaming a gender perspective in all policies and programmes relating to children,

Underlining the need for mainstreaming a gender perspective in all policies and programmes relating to children,

By and large, Governments fail to take into consideration gender discrimination in formulating HIV AIDS policies.

(g) Strengthening regional cooperation and national capabilities to promote policies and programmes for achieving gender equality

Many countries, in further refining their policies on gender mainstreaming, have provided specific guidance on implementation.

Many countries integrated gender perspectives into their education policies and programmes.8 The Dominican Republic incorporated gender perspectives into its 2003 2012 strategic education development plan.

to take stock of what UNDP has done to install gender mainstreaming policies and ensure their implementation and to assess the overall performance of UNDP in gender mainstreaming and the promotion of gender equality.

Mirror representation is premised on the assumption that elected officials of a particular gender would likely support policies that seek to benefit constituents of the same gender.

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.