Workshop Outcomes and Way Forward

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Workshop Outcomes and Way Forward

• Approach
• Challenges
• Critical Success Factors
• Action Required

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Approach

• Informed by Gender and Development and centred
  within a human rights perspective
• Personal and societal transformation (personal
  and societal) as the engine for action and
  strategy development
• The assertion of patriarchy as the root cause of
  gender inequality
• Involve men as partners in gender mainstreaming

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Challenges

• Resources human and financial
• Location of responsibility and authority
• Policy development and implementation
• Political and administrative will
• Timeframes and consequences of non-compliance

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Gender-responsive budgetingCritical Success
Factors

• Gender equality political and policy commitment
• Inter-ministerial commitment and cooperation
• Well-resourced and well-positioned womens
  national machinery
• Able and effective financial arrangements and
  mechanisms for gender mainstreaming

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The Role of Women in the Public Sector Management
CadreCritical Success Factors

• Supportive work environments i.e childcare
  facilities, flexible work arrangements
• Affirmative action programmes to ensure the
  acceleration of womens empowerment-personal and
  professional
• The provision of resources to ensure womens
  development
• Political and administrative will

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Sexual HarassmentCritical Success Factors

• Education, training and capacity development
• Realistic timeframes
• Creation of a no-tolerance environment
• Implementation of policies

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HODs 8 PrinciplesCritical Success Factors

• Develop action plan and ensure compliance
• Align with all policies
• Develop norm and standard setting
• Quantitative and qualitative issues
• Conducive policy environment

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Actions Required

• DPSA
• Drive political and administrative buy-in
• Support departments with mainstreaming
  strategies
• 2. Gender Focal Points
• Intensify and expand existing strategies
• Build political alliances and internal
  constituencies
• Insist on policy compliance
• Mobilise, dont moan!
• 3. Collective
• Distribute report
• Use as basis for report back
• Form networks of support from this Indaba