The RCAs of management staff should include gender mainstreaming performance targets and oversight mechanisms.

Senior managers Competence in gender implications of UNDP mandate, targets and functioning, with emphasis on agenda setting accountability leadership, and advocacy for gender equality.

UNDP should monitor its gender balance targets, using, for example, the gender and diversity scorecard analyze impediments and take further actions in recruitment and the promotion of a culture of gender equality.

Gender equality targets set by Beijing and the Millennium Development Goals were indelibly linked and mutually reinforcing.

Yet the Millennium Project report indicated that there was limited and uneven progress on gender equality targets.

UNDP gender mainstreaming policies lack clear objectives, targets and time frames, making it difficult to quantify progress.

Through its leadership of the UNGEI, UNICEF will continue to pursue targets related to gender parity and equality.

(a) Ensure that actions plans on gender mainstreaming include concrete goals, targets and indicators and clearly allocated responsibilities

In Kazakhstan, the human rights project has mainstreamed gender and set targets for long term gender equality impact, as well as promoting human development courses at the university with a strong emphasis on gender.

The Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy revised it targets based on a strong gender focus in the MDG needs assessment.

UNDP should set monitorable targets to ensure accountability for implementation and the visibility of gender in each practice area.

Action plans with time bound, measurable benchmarks and targets have been developed to facilitate increased implementation of gender mainstreaming.

Similarly, Denmark included clear targets, frameworks and timetables in its five year action plan for gender mainstreaming (2002 2006).

One policy option for this purpose would be to set specific targets for the provision of gender segregated school sanitation facilities.

We are also on track to achieve the targets of reducing child mortality, attaining greater gender equality and improving maternal health.

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

The need to take on more women managers was highlighted to recruiting staff, as were efforts to reach WFP's targets of 50 percent women staff, in line with United Nations gender targets, and 50 percent of staff recruited being women.

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals set ambitious targets for lowering poverty, improving health and nutrition, expanding education, increasing gender equality, and ensuring environmental sustainability.

The MDGs constitute a set of time bound and measurable goals, targets and indicators for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and gender inequality.

be possible to achieve the targets for reduction of infant malnutrition, gender equality in primary education, and reduction of infant and under 5 mortality rates.

The world has already missed the first and perhaps the most critical of all the Millennium Development Targets gender parity in primary and secondary education.

Targets

The addition of questions on gender for reporting on the MYFF is welcome clear targets and benchmarks at programme and country levels will improve the usefulness of answers.

Since the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, many countries have developed policies and action plans on gender mainstreaming, some of which include specific timelines and targets.

Some participants identified the following potential targets (or elements for targets)

Nuclear Targets

Funding targets

Government policies had borne fruit, with gender parity improved in primary, secondary and vocational education between 1990 and 2004 and targets for the education of girls exceeded in some cases.

The Special Adviser, assisted by the Focal Point for Women in the Secretariat, supports and advises programme managers in their efforts to meet General Assembly mandated targets on gender balance.

To attain those targets, the Prime Minister had required all sectors and government agencies to implement the recommended measures and to employ gender mainstreaming in formulating and implementing national policies.

Beyond Inflation Targets

Smart Development Targets

International development targets

Objective and targets

It contains a number of global goals and targets related to the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, universal primary education, gender equality, health, environmental sustainability and global partnership for development.

Setting targets and establishing a conducive environment in which these targets can be reached

Europe s Pointless Deficit Targets?

Setting goals and targets

Its basic targets are

(g) To enable the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women to effectively contribute to, monitor and facilitate the setting and implementation of gender targets in human resource action plans, including by ensuring access to the information required to carry out that work

By separating out the high value targets, you implicitly discover the low value targets as well.

But low value targets for one ad or drug could be high value targets for another.

The Commission can propose changes to targets, including mandatory targets, if member States cannot justify non compliance.

Thus, they become prime targets.

UNDP senior management at bureaux and all headquarters units and country offices should make explicit gender mainstreaming commitments, and set clear, time bound and monitorable targets each year for their offices and individual work plans.