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

Ireland's three pronged approach to gender equality consisted of legislation, gender mainstreaming and positive action.

The human rights based approach to cooperation and gender equality

There should be a systematic approach to knowledge management on gender mainstreaming.

The evaluation of gender mainstreaming in UNDP was undertaken to identify gaps and further strengthen the UNDP approach to gender mainstreaming.

Women's health promotion could be a practical approach to achieve greater gender equity.

They welcomed UNICEF work in gender mainstreaming and stressed the importance of adopting a strategic, results oriented and gender sensitive approach at the country level.

This notable success might be attributed to the consistency of the national approach to gender equality.

These differences were not only a consequence of gender inequality in the approach to the educational system.

UNDP could play a leading role in shaping an informed gender mainstreamed approach to post crisis development strategy.

Demonstrate a multidisciplinary approach to sectoral analysis and planning by using social gender analysis as well as a human rights approach in the development of strategies and advocacy tools.

The inequality and injustice of gender relations is a concern for human rights, and thus for sustainable development the gender approach places the continuing subordination of women in context.

A wide range of NGOs and professional bodies had also adopted a gender and development approach in their work.

France introduced a gender specific approach to pathology, taking into account the specific health needs of men and women.

Since 2000, a growing number of countries have taken steps to develop a gender sensitive approach to budgetary allocations.

The evaluation assessed the overall performance of UNDP in gender mainstreaming and the promotion of gender equality, the results achieved, the partnerships established, and the organizational policy of gender balance, as well as issues of capacity, resources and approach.

The evaluation concludes that UNDP lacks both the capacity and the institutional framework for a systematic, effective gender mainstreaming approach.

UNDP should complement its approach with targeted initiatives to promote women's empowerment and gender equality at programmatic and institutional levels.

While a single authority dealing with gender issues might have advantages, the approach of the Equality Authority also had merits.

The UNCCD implementation process in Africa is helping to boost the participatory approach through existing mechanisms including gender specific approaches.

As indicated above, the ILO approach is to ensure that gender concerns are integrated at every stage in the project cycle.

SADC upheld the principle of gender equality as a necessary and rational approach to economic growth, poverty reduction and overall human development.

The national youth policy focuses on six areas gender, the life cycle, comprehensiveness and inclusion, the family, the multisectoral approach and territoriality.

The interest of the Board coincided with a need on the part of UNDP to gauge the effectiveness of its approach and validate the results of past efforts in gender mainstreaming and advancing gender equality.

Researching the information available to us, we have not found any gender inequality in the approach to and the allocation of available scholarships.

To this end, UNICEF continues to mainstream a gender perspective in its work as part of the human rights based approach to programming.

This Program is aimed at providing integrated and balanced approach to the prevention and treatment, and it does not integrate the gender aspect.

This goal is not always made explicit, with the result that gender mainstreaming risks becoming a technical approach without clear direction and targets.

Adopt a human rights approach to macroeconomic issues that promotes sustainable development linking economic growth to gender equality, social development and environmental protection and peace.

The challenges are (i) that subtle gender dynamics tend to get lost in a standardized global approach and (ii) initiatives that support implementation of the gender policy are often set aside at times of unexpected emergencies and high staff turnover.

Such programmes are important however, an integrated approach is needed to tackle the impact of gender inequality, while at the same time to reach specific risk groups.

The focus areas reflect the operationalization of the UNICEF human rights based approach, focusing on the most marginalized children and poorest families, and the promotion of gender equality.

In its Monterrey Consensus,i the International Conference on Financing for Development highlighted the importance of a holistic approach to financing for development, including gender sensitive development and encouraged the mainstreaming of the gender perspective into development policies at all levels and in all sectors.

The 1998 Political Constitution, moreover, safeguarded women's rights, incorporated a gender approach and the protection of the specific human rights of women, and established a number of fundamental principles.

In 1995, the Fourth World Conference on Women called in its Beijing Declaration for a more comprehensive approach that incorporated a gender perspective into national statistical systems to ensure that gender statistics adequately demonstrated the particular and often different experiences of women and men in society.3

Gender equality and gender mainstreaming

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.

Lastly, while she welcomed the gender sensitive approach inherent in the State party's HIV AIDS prevention programme, she noted that the programme focused primarily on transmission from mother to child.

The effort by UN Habitat in recent years to mainstream gender serves as a good model for this approach, and the Partners and Youth Section is learning from that experience.

Gender equality overcoming pervasive gender bias

As they began to be applied, the mine action team was taking a focused and coordinated approach to the monitoring of the impact of gender mainstreaming in all United Nations programmes.

It also recognized the social and cultural diversity of the rural population and the specific features related to gender, generation, race and ethnicity relations, which requires unique approach for overcoming inequality.

In 2003, the Government had adopted a gender policy approach in line with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, aimed at ensuring equal distribution of powers and influence in society, equal obligations in the rearing of children and freedom from gender based violence.

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.

Our country has encouraged a youth project known as Hands to work , which advocates a comprehensive approach to health care and incorporates human rights, youth, gender, community participation and social inclusion issues.