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Title: UNDP RBEC Regional Centre


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  • UNDP RBEC Regional Centre
  • Engendering the Localizing Sustainable
    Development Projects in Western-Balkan Countries
    and CIS
  • Dono Abdurazakova, Regional Gender Adviser
  • Bratislava, 12 September 2003

2
Long-term objective socially just and
sustainable society by ensuring
  •  
  •         balanced participation between men and
    women
  •         that gender issues are integrated into
    decision-making, implementation, monitoring and
    evaluation of localized Sustainable Development
    initiatives.

3
Gender mainstreaming is
  • the process of assessing the implications for
    women and men of any planned action, including
    legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas
    and at all levels. It is a strategy for making
    womens as well as mens concerns and experiences
    an integral dimension of the design,
    implementation, monitoring and evaluation of
    policies and programmes in all political,
    economic and societal spheres so that women and
    men benefit equally and inequality is not
    perpetuated. The ultimate goal is to achieve
    gender equality. The Report of the Economic and
    Social Council for 1997. United Nations, 1997.

4
Gender mainstreaming is
  • a strategy that considers a gender perspective
    as an integral part of activities and
    decision-making to identify where specific
    measures are needed most, for greater and
    long-lasting impact

5
Gender mainstreaming
  • .Is a strategy, not a goal. The goal is gender
    equality

6
Gender mainstreaming
  • No longer viewed as a separate issue
  • Requires thorough and rigorous analysis of the
    situation
  • Doesnt mean that gender-specific intervention
    are abandoned!

7
Gender equality
  • All human beings are free to develop their
    personal abilities and make choices w/o the
    limitations set by gender roles
  • Aspirations and needs of women and men are
    equally valued and favoured

8
ARGUMENTATION
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  •         human rights issue
  •         credibility issue
  •         efficiency issue
  •         pre-condition and pre-requisite for
    successful local development strategies

9
Conceptual framework international obligations
  1. The Beijing Platform for Action
  2. Convention on Elimination of All Forms of
    Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

10
No more why but HOW to integrate Gender?
  • No ready-made recipe, but need for adaptation to
    the specific needs of each policy area
  • Tips the earlier conducted, the better results
    at the end and more space to introduce changes

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Ensure the Following Steps
  • Availability of information and sex
    disaggregated data is one of the principal
    pre-requisites
  • Expertise in the gender relations and policies on
    equality needed
  • Based on the first two steps, move with the
    preparation of a check list to ask the right
    questions
  •  

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Step one
  • Outline the current position of men women in
    the area which this policy proposal will address
  • Who are beneficiaries? How many women, men? What
    data source is used to determine these figures?
    Are there differences in situation of women and
    men in this sector/area ( in terms of access to
    resources, participation, norms and values,
    rights, etc)? Is opinion of women and men is
    taken into account from the point of costs,
    benefits, acceptance, advantages and utility?

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Step Two
  • What factors lead to women and men being
    affected differently in the area being addressed
    by this policy proposal?
  •      Identify the factors which lead to the
    differential impact on women and men
  •       What are the final costs (both financial
    and human) paid by women and men if this policy
    is adopted?
  •        What benefits (material or other) the
    decision will bring to women and men?
  •       What implications will be for everyday
    life of certain group(s) of women or men?
  •  

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Step Three
  • How can the factors which lead to women or
  • men being affected differentially be addressed
  • and changed?
  • How can the policy proposal respond to the
    factors identified in Step 2?
  • What actions are proposed in this regard?
  • What are the long lasting effects/impact in case
    of failure of the proposed policy?
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15
Tools and Resources developed at the UNDP RBEC
Regional Centre, Bratislava
  • Gender Mainstreaming in Practice A Handbook
  •  
  • Drafting Gender-Aware LegislationHow to Promote
    and Protect Gender Equality in the Central and
    Eastern Europe and in the CIS
  • Available at on-line, at UNDP RBEC Gender Virtual
    Gender Library, http//gender.undp.sk

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Are there gender issues in the region?
  • The suicide rates (up 90), committed by men in
    some parts of the region are highest in the
    world
  • High life expectancy gaps
  • High educational level of women combined with
    their low representation at all levels of
    decision-making

17
Womens average monthly income as percentage of
mens
  • Albania 87 BH n/a
  • Bulgaria n/a Croatia n/a
  • Romania 80 Turkey n/a
  • Serbia Montenegro 79
  • Source UNDP/UNECE Gender statistics website
    http//www.unece.org

18
Working population
  • Country Year women men
  • Albania 1999 38 62
  • BH N/a
  • Bulgaria 1998 47 53
  • Croatia 1999 46 54
  • FYROM 1998 39 61
  • Romania 1998 46 54
  • Turkey 1999 31 69
  • SM 1999 42 58
  • Source UNDP/UNECE Gender statistics website
    http//www.unece.org

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Seats in parliament
  • Country Year women men
  • Albania 2001 6 94
  • BH 2002 17 83
  • Bulgaria 2002 26 74
  • Croatia 2002 21 79
  • FYROM 2002 18 82
  • Romania 2002 11 89
  • Turkey 2002 4 96
  • SM 2002 7 93
  • Source Inter-Parliamentary Union,
    http//www.ipu.org

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SUGGESTED ENTRY-POINTS
  • for LoSD

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(1)   sub-regional advocacy workshop
  •         Suggest gender- balanced representation
  •         Include a separate session for gender
    sensitisation and awareness raising on the need
    to integrate gender if local development
    strategies intend to be successful
  •         Ensure that other sessions do not
    perpetuate existing gender inequalities and
    traditional distribution of gender roles
  •         Search and bring successful examples of
    mainstreamed from gender perspective local
    development strategies developed through
    participatory methods (gender budgets).

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 (1)   Training for Local Action Groups
  • Preparation of Situation Assessment
  •  
  • Ensure that Gender analysis is a part of overall
    methodology(s)
  • Gender expert is part of the team
  • Questionnaires include gender specific questions
  • Interviews target equally women and men in
    balanced manner, to reflect their views

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Pilot strategy development for and with
participation of the LAG-s
  •   As strategy will be developed in a
    participatory manner, special efforts should
    apply to ensure that women and men represented
    equally
  • and the environment enables them to participate
    and provide meaningful input
  • Not only special elements dedicated to gender in
    the strategies, tools for achieving the strategy,
    and appropriate action plans, but overall goal
    mainstreamed.
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