Practical application National policy on equality.

(a) National body General Command of Gendarmerie

Development of periodical National Plan for promotion of Gender Equality

In 2004, a gender equality working group was formed that deals with the EU gender equality legislation on national level.

RS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY Committee on Women's Social Position and Gender Equality

The implementation of gender equality, however, required strong national mechanisms and international structures.

In 2003, the National Assembly decided to draft the Law on Gender Equality.

The National Assembly of Rwanda, for instance, had almost achieved full gender equality.

The delegation had stated that the Observatory for Women's Rights and Equality was a non governmental organization, not a State body.

National plans for gender equality and national strategies to end violence against women must be made part of the aid effectiveness agenda.

In general, each country or economy has a single recognized National Standards Body (NSB).

Any body or agency, whether national or international, governmental or non governmental (rule 7)

The Gender Equality Council approves the general guidelines of gender equality policy, consults the Government on issues of strategy for the promotion of gender equality and presents to the Government its position on the conformity with the Gender Equality Act of national programmes submitted by the ministries.

The national strategy to achieve gender equality in the public service was based on all the domestic legislation governing gender equality, to which reference had already been made.

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

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

The First National Conference on the Promotion of Racial Equality is already being organized for 2005.

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.

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).

2.2 Policies, programmes and resource allocations of regional, national and local organizations are consistent with gender equality

Moreover, all the relevant national legislation is unambiguous in its assertion of equality between women and men.

The National Assembly has assigned the VWU, in collaboration with relevant agencies, with drafting the Law on Gender Equality for submission to the National Assembly.

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.

The national policy framework on women's empowerment and gender equality of South Africa outlines the role of the national machinery and all other Government structures in advancing the national gender programme.

The General Secretariat for Gender Equality is the governmental body competent for violence against women, a form of which is domestic violence (violence within the family).

But the state has other means to encourage equality on the basis of national, social, or economic criteria.

The Interministerial Committee prepared and compiled the National Action Programme for Gender Equality of the 2001 2006 period.

Parts of programmes or of national interventions have been evaluated in terms of their impact on gender equality.

Peru also wishes to emphasize the work of the Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression, a body open in full equality to all Member States.

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 National Human Rights Commission was an investigative body which followed up its recommendations and their results.

Presidential Decree 39 2004, established the Office for Gender Equality at the Headquarters of the Minister of National Defense.

Jamaica recognized the importance of national legislation in the establishment of institutional mechanisms and measures to advance gender equality.

Her Government attached great importance to gender equality and gender mainstreaming, at both the national and the international levels.

36 UNDP, En Route to Equality A Gender Review of National MDG Reports (New York, UNDP, 2005), p. 16.

Its critical areas of concern were gender equality in family welfare and development rural development gender equality in decision making the establishment of national mechanisms and increased participation of women in civil society.

The National Action Plan for Employment constitutes the main tool for planning and implementing employment policies. One of the guidelines of the National Action Plan is gender equality.

They can be taken only by a body with democratic legitimacy analogous to that of a national parliament.

The National Insurance Institute (NII) is the governmental body responsible for the administration of the social insurance programs.

The National Action Plan, which identified the activities and strategic measures for improving gender equality, had begun to yield results.

UNDP has published En Route to Equality a gender review of 78 National MDG reports', which has been widely circulated.

Moreover, successive national constitutions had proclaimed equality between men and women, and the courts had regularly upheld the constitutional provisions.

At an institutional level, we shall propose directly the formation, by a legislative provision, of a new national mechanism, the National Committee for the Equality between Men and Women.

It also underlines the importance of the National Agreement on Gender Equality and of the National Policy on Sexual and Reproductive Health and urges further advances in these areas.

Innovative partnerships are also needed among national mechanisms for gender equality, other government bodies, including national statistical offices, the women's movement, the private sector, and regional and international organizations.