Gender Sensitive Training

C. Gender sensitive budgets

A variety of tools such as gender disaggregated data, gender analysis, gender responsive budgeting, gender sensitive monitoring and evaluation systems and gender sensitive indicators have proven useful.

The gender sensitive presentation of issues in documentation before the General Assembly facilitates gender sensitive policy formulation.

(n) Supporting a gender sensitive education system that considers rural women's specific needs in order to eliminate gender stereotypes and discriminatory tendencies affecting them

(g) access of children and adolescents to a gender sensitive, life skills education will increase by 30 per cent

(r) Supporting a gender sensitive education system that considers the specific needs of rural women in order to eliminate gender stereotypes and discriminatory tendencies affecting them

Gender sensitive budgets and public security issues include the prevention of gender based violence.

Teachers in training need to undergo gender sensitive orientation.

In Ghana, for example, gender sensitive education plans are being developed in all districts, while the child friendly schools approach aims to create examples of quality education in 50 locations.

Target 2 Quality learning in child friendly, gender sensitive schools

The school curricula are being modified to become gender sensitive.

Capacity building is another building block for gender sensitive policies

This project aims to make provisions within EFA National Action Plans for a gender sensitive and socio culturally relevant Science and Technology Education (STE).

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.

In Bhutan, the national poverty indicator includes gender sensitive poverty indicators.

ESCAP offered a gender sensitive capacity building programme on multimodal transport.

In addition, practical guidelines for gender sensitive food security have been drafted.

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Gender sensitive training to enable health care workers to detect and manage the health consequences of gender based violence.

The National Commission, together with the UN Gender in Development Bureau, is doing work to train gender sensitive journalists.

(d) Develop strengthen and institutionalize the use of gender analysis, gender impact assessment and gender sensitive monitoring and evaluation procedures for all policy areas

Political participation encompasses a wide range of actions and strategies, including voting, voter education, candidacy for national and local elections and supporting candidates who espouse gender sensitive policies.

There has been regular dialogue on such issues as gender sensitive forestry development.

A number of countries took steps towards setting up gender sensitive pension plans.

For example, in Belize the Government has developed gender sensitive education programmes to upgrade women apos s status in society, complemented by surveys on sexual harassment, gender stereotyping in the media, and the problems of young adults.

There was a commitment to carry out a gender audit in five Ministries by 2005, and the Ministry of Education had set the targets of raising awareness of gender issues among officials at all levels of the Ministry and promoting a gender sensitive school curriculum.

(a) Promoting a gender sensitive approach and furthering the mainstreaming of gender issues in all the programmes of the Commission

INSTRAW and UNIFEM both promote the formulation of gender sensitive agricultural policies and the training of researchers on gender analysis.

Indonesia is addressing gender stereotypes in curricula and gender segregation in education.

Practical guidelines for gender sensitive vulnerability and food security analysis have also been prepared.

The outcome resulted in the development of a framework for gender sensitive local planning.

Some countries developed a variety of tools and methodologies to support gender sensitive budgeting.

At every level, therefore, all strategies and action plans needed to be gender sensitive.

This project aims to make provisions within EFA National Action Plans for a gender sensitive and socio culturally relevant Science and Technology Education (STE) (Nepal, Egypt, Burkina Faso and Argentina).

In using this strategy, both for primary education and literacy, attention should be focused on gender sensitive teaching methods and on equal participation by boys and girls, men and women.

Kazakhstan introduced classes on gender equality into higher education, including foundations of gender theory, anthology of gender research and sociology of gender.

In that connection, the Research Institute of Social and Gender Studies, with the assistance of UNICEF and the Ministry of Education, has performed a gender analysis of teaching environment and has developed a manual for gender education and a textbook for higher education institutions called The Bases of Gender Education.

They have become the local resource persons for the production of gender sensitive radio programmes.

International human rights law provides the legal framework for gender sensitive responses to the epidemic.

(ii) With an emphasis on children and youth, incorporating gender sensitive hygiene education in school curricula and ensuring the provision of separate sanitation facilities for boys and girls in all schools

ESCAP has facilitated sharing of experience and good practices on the elimination of gender discrimination in the labour market through gender sensitive legislation.

Gender, Poverty and Rural Development Gender Balance in Education and Training Gender and Reproductive Health Violence Against Women and Children Gender and Economic Empowerment Gender Balance in Power and Decision Making Information, Education and Communication Gender and the Management of the Environment The Girl Child Gender and Legal Affairs Monitoring Mechanism

This will go a long way in making the development policy formulation process more gender sensitive.

And it is even used for sensitive issues such as building awareness around gender based violence.