Gender Equality Department in the Ministry of Social Affairs

Source Directorate of Agricultural Domestic Economy, Bureau for Equality, ministry for Agriculture

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.

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

The Department of Education and Science Gender Equality Unit focused on the education sector, while the Ministry of Finance Gender Equality Unit oversaw the implementation of equality policies in the employment of civil servants.

The Law on Gender Equality in Bosnia and Herzegovina provides for formation of an Agency for Gender Equality, within the Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees.

Strong emphasis had been placed on gender equality in development and poverty reduction, with the establishment of a ministry dealing exclusively with gender equality and the advancement of women.

The Council exercises the latter task in cooperation with the Gender Equality Department of the Ministry of Social Affairs.

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.

The second National Plan for Equality of Portugal states that each Ministry has to appoint a Councillor for Equality to be responsible for preparing an annual ministerial gender mainstreaming plan.

According to the Law on Gender Equality in B H, the Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees is responsible for the Gender Equality Agency, formed as independent unit.

At an institutional level, new institutional mechanisms have been established, as the Interministerial Committee for Gender Equality (2000), the Permanent Parliamentary Committee for Equality and Human Rights (2002) and the Office for Gender Equality in the Ministry of National Defense (2004).

The National Action Plan for Gender Equality (2001 2006) of the General Secretariat for Gender Equality, Ministry of the Interior, Public Administration and Decentralization included measures and actions that aim to change the stereotyped roles of the sexes.

Issuing, by the Ministry of National Economy, of the 18321 6 6 2001 circular on appointment of officers responsible for gender equality in Managing Authorities .

The principle of gender equality forms an intrinsic part of personnel policy at the Ministry of Finance, which strives to attract both men and women.

), an institution supervised by the General Secretariat for Gender Equality, Ministry of the Interior, Public Administration and Decentralization, carried out relative surveys and studies.

The guidelines prepared by the Ministry of Social Affairs ( Impact assessment gender aspect ) provide a list of legally binding documents that contain norms for the promotion of gender equality, first of all for integrating gender equality into various policies and measures.

The General Secretariat for Gender Equality, as the competent governmental body, participates in planning actions on Equality in the Operational Programme Agricultural development Restructuring the countryside , as well as in the Operational Programme Fishery of the Ministry of Agriculture.

The Concept Paper of Gender Equality Implementation and European Community frameworks had been published in the Latvian language, and gender equality and women's rights were components of various research projects and publications funded by the Ministry of Welfare or international organizations.

In 2003, the Open Society Institute conducted a gender equality monitoring survey commissioned by the Ministry of Social Affairs with the aim to find out the opinions and attitudes of society towards gender equality and the role of women and men.

The capacity of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children's Affairs, which is charged with coordinating gender equality programmes within the Government, is still limited.

According to the Gender Equality Act an official of the structural unit of the Ministry of Social Affairs which deals with gender equality provides consultation to all persons on matters related to implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women.

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 Ministry of Education and Culture, together with the Women's Bureau, had defined a public policy and set up a programme aimed at achieving gender equality.

Research studies Description of Women's Cooperatives , October 2000, conducted by the General Secretariat for Gender Equality, the Panhellenic Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives Unions and the Ministry of Agriculture.

I met Elisabeth Møller Jensen, the director of KVINFO, the Danish center for information on gender, equality and ethnicity an extraordinary organization funded by Denmark s Ministry of Culture.

In that regard, Ghana has established a Ministry of Women's and Children's Affairs to spearhead policies and programmes to promote gender equality and enhance the status of women.

The Ministry of Education (MEC), together with the Special Secretariat on Policies for the Promotion of Racial Equality (SEPPIR), created an Inter Ministerial Committee for Affirmative Action Policies.

Moreover, in the context of the above programme, the Research Centre for Gender Equality, in collaboration with the Ministry of Employment and Social Protection, the General Secretariat for Gender Equality and the Employment Inspectorate, has organized seminars for employment inspectors in Athens and Thessaloniki, concerning

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Ms. Falka (Latvia), referring to educational issues, said that human rights principles, including gender equality, were incorporated into the entire curriculum by order of the Ministry of Education and Science.

The Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees of B H, in cooperation with Entity Gender Centres, have submitted the B H Gender Equality Law implementation project to the UNDP.

Vice Ministry of Defence (Ministry of Defence)

The Ministry of Justice, People's Supreme Court have issued instructions on increasing activities for the advancement of women in which gender equality is fully mainstreamed in law information, dissemination and education.

Implementation of the equal treatment policy by all Ministries was coordinated by the Inter ministerial Working Group and the Ministry of Welfare, the chief government institution responsible for gender equality issues.

In the period 2002 2004 the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment has therefore carried out the Article 13 project', which aims to anchor the principle of equality in the workplace.

The sectoral table on gender equality has been effective in strengthening the Ministry of Women's Affairs and has succeeded in influencing the integration of gender dimensions in the work of other tables.

In February 2005 Estonia submitted a report on the implementation of the Beijing Declaration to the UN that was drawn up by the Gender Equality Department of the Ministry of Social Affairs.

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Ms. García (Paraguay) said the Women's Bureau had entered into an agreement with the Ministry of Education and Culture to develop a programme to promote equality of opportunity for women in education.

The Brazilian Government joined forces with the Special Secretariat on Policies for the Promotion of Racial Equality (SEPPIR) and the Ministry of Education to stimulate affirmative action policies for higher level education.

Such initiative is jointly undertaken by five key government agencies, namely the Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Public Health.

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