Regional Conference on Mainstreaming Gender in National Poverty Reduction Strategies Hanoi, Vietnam, 12-14 March 2002

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Regional Conference on Mainstreaming Gender in
National Poverty Reduction StrategiesHanoi,
Vietnam, 12-14 March 2002

• Objectives
• Review exchange experiences on mainstreaming
  of gender in NPRS
• Identify obstacles challenges in mainstreaming
  gender in designing and implementing of the NPRS
• Lessons learned for the future formulate a
  shared view of next steps
• Have a plan of action for priority steps to
  promote attention to critical gender issues in
  the NPRS process

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Mongolian Poverty Reduction Strategy Experience
to date

• NPAP (1994-2000)
• - NPAP institutional structure set up
• - Central, regional and local level participation
  encouraged
• - Wide-range of public awareness raising and PA
  support
• activities promoted encouraging self-help
  mentality in
• overcoming poverty among the population.
• - NPAP implementation capacity built
• - WB, IMF, UN and other bilateral cooperation,
  joint experiences
• efforts ensuring sustainability and economic
  growth led to the interllinkage of economic part
  of I-PRSP with Poverty Reduction, Growth
  Facilities program.

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Mongolian Poverty Reduction Strategy Experience
to date

• I-PRSP (2001)
• -IPRSP provides a sound basis for
• developing a fully participatory PRSP
• -Broad participation ensured by all stakeholders
  Government agencies, NGOs, civil society
  institutions, academia
• -Policy document truly owned by the Government
  of Mongolia

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National Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
Preparation Process

• Key activities
• - Technical working group set up representing the
  Government NGO partnership, being divided in 3
  task force groups
• - Work plan for F-PRSP revised last October-
  November was reviewed by the participants of the
  regional seminar
• - PRG set up last November has been working on
  expanding research analytical dimensions
  towards economic growth poverty reduction
  macro-economic policy impact on trade
  production, budgetary monetary policy impact on
  poverty

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National Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
Preparation Process

• -Experts working on the monitoring indicators
  pointed out
• a) progress indicators, b) result-ended
  indicators
• -Issues concerning foreign trade,
  production/industry promotion, processing
  industries, agricultural sector and tradeservice
  sector would be incorporated into a F-PRSP
• -Broader participation partnership with all
  stakeholders ensured (50 of Dornod seminar were
  civil society CBOs representatives)
• -Policy recommendation for pro-poor budget
  planning/allocation, prioritization of resource
  mobilization and other related alternatives
• -IEC activities conducted amongst various groups
  MPs cabinet members, general public, mass media

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Surveys reports vis-à-vis NPRS Gender Issues

• -Mongolian Poverty Assessment in Transition
  Economy, WB (1996)
• -LSMS, NSO (1995, 1998)
• -NHDR, UNDP (2000)
• -Women in Mongolia Mapping Progress under
  Transition, UNIFEM (2000)
• -PLSA, NSO (2001)
• -HIES with some modules of LSMA, WB/UNDP (2002)

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National Program for Advancement of Mongolian
Women (NPAW) (Government Resolution No145, 1996)

• NPAW (1996-2020) 11 critical areas of concern
• a. Women economic development
• b. Women poverty
• c. The status of rural women
• d. Women education
• e. Women reproductive health
• f. Women the family
• g. Women in power and decision-making
• h. Violence against women human rights
• i. National machinery for advancement of women
• j. Women the mass media
• k. Women environment

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Key obstacles in the process of preparing
gender-responsive NPRSP

• The design, collection, analysis dissemination
  of data statistics suffer from incomplete
  disaggregation by sex other pertinent variables
• Major gaps in data missing data towards 4
  dimensions of poverty
• Weak capacity to undertake gender analysis at a
  level that meets the complex challenges posed by
  the transition for womens empowerment gender
  equality

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Key obstacles in the process of preparing
gender-responsive NPRSP

• Inadequate capacity to disaggregate data
  meaningfully to use the information to raise
  understanding about poverty gender dimensions
  influence policy makers
• Weakness in gender mainstreaming across NPRSP
  linked with weakness in the capacity to use the
  knowledge generated to advocate, negotiate
  influence policy processes

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Challenges in mainstreaming gender in designing
implementing the NPRSP

• National gender information system should be set
  up focusing on 4 dimensions of poverty
  potential PRSP interventions
• Mechanisms should be developed to trace the
  differential outcomes impacts of macro-economic
  policy changes on women men, specifically
  regarding the sources the impacts of the
  taxation revenue generation policy
• HIES using gender analysis should be integrated
  into micro-economic sex disaggregated data bases
  for conducting policy-oriented research analysis

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Challenges in mainstreaming gender in designing
implementing the NPRSP

• The poverty dimension of rural urban women
  men should be addressed from a rights-based
  approach
• Participation of all stakeholders should be
  encouraged during the F-PRSP process including
  decision-makers, civil society institutions,
  academia citizens
• Monitoring, analysis and assessment indicators
  benchmarks should be identified consensus built
  on the NPRSP formulation and implementation
  (capacity building issues)

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Lessons learned for the future shared view
for next steps

• Engender the PRSP participatory process raise
  awareness among gender/womens advocates
• Share experiences best practices, identifying
  entry points with
• MDG ensuring that gender equality is seen as a
  pre-requesite for sustainable development and
  poverty eradication
• Eradicate poverty hunger
• Achieve universal primary education
• Promote gender equality empowerment of women
• Reduce child mortality
• Improve maternal health
• Combat HIV/AIDS
• Ensure environment sustainability
• Development a global partnership for development

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Lessons learned for the future shared view
for next steps

• NPAW PRSP
• Action Plan of the Government of Mongolia PRSP
• Treatment of gender in PRSP (matrices)
• CSW- eradication of poverty empowerment of
  women throughout their life cycle as the main
  focus
• UNDAF PRSP
• CCA PRSP
• Results accountability in the area of gender
  equality backed by financial allocalions
  organizational practices

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Lessons learned for the future shared view
for next steps

• Gender mainstreaming in poverty reduction
  strategy, democratic governance, crisis
  prevention recovery, environment sustainable
  energy, HIV/AIDS, ICT
• Gender - responsive budget analysis, planning
• Womens security-violence against women
• Promotion of gender justice

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• Thank you