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

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

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.

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.

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.

496. Clarification was requested on the national machinery, especially in view of the recent transfer of responsibility for equality issues from the Ministry of Culture to the Ministry of Social Affairs.

There were discussions between the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports and the Institute for Schools on establishing a programme to train teachers in gender equality, and some seminars on equality and tolerance were already being offered.

With the aid of a grant from the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment the Equal Treatment Commission (CGB) is to develop a software programme to analyse pay systems.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In Kyrgyzstan, a gender audit of the activities of all structural subdivisions of the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare was carried out in 2003.

Vice Ministry of Defence (Ministry of Defence)

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.

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.

Vice Ministry of Defence, division of the Ministry of Defence

Vice Ministry of Justice (Ministry of the Presidency)

Vice Ministry of Social Welfare (Ministry of the Interior)

Vice Ministry of Health (Ministry of Health and Sports)

The Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor indicted the company on grounds of discrimination (pregnancy, parenthood and gender) based on the Equal Employment Opportunities Law.

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 Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation has responsibility for overall coordination of the reporting process, and is working in collaboration with the Prime Minister's advisers on human rights and the promotion of equality.

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.

A Department of War, a Department of Everything Else.

State Department. This is not the State Department.

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.

Activities undertaken to promote gender equality Since January 1999 the Social Policy Development Department at the MW is the competent institution for co ordination of the issues of gender equality in the country.

Vice Ministry of Public Investment and External Finance (Ministry of Finance)

Vice Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (Ministry of Sustainable Development)

Vice Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Exports (Ministry of Economic Development)

Vice Ministry of Hydrocarbons (Ministry of Mining and Hydrocarbons)

Let's have a Department of War, and a Department of Something Else.

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 .

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 MAWRD have been conducting several training workshops to sensitise extension officers on gender equality by equipping them with gender analysis skills.

But the most important achievement, during the period under review, for the cause of gender equality was the elevation of the Department of Women Affairs to a fully fledged Ministry of Women Affairs and Child Welfare.

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Ministry of the Education

Ministry of the Work

Ministry of the Interior

Ministry of Finance