Gender Analysis of Civil Service Training

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Gender Analysis of Civil Service Training

• Working Towards equal opportunities for women in
  the civil service

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Welcome

• Hedwig SchlagsWomens Employment Promotion
  Project
• Rachel WarehamGender Mainstreaming Project

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Introduction

• Report Purpose
• Commitments to Gender Equality by Afghan
  Government
• Methodology

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Women in the Civil Service

• Statistics
• Current Environment
• Categories
• Civil Service Reform

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Statistics

• No central source of number of civil servants
• No gender-disaggregated data
• 180,000 to 325,000 total
• One estimate 38,000 women
• One estimate 60 of women teachers

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Current Environment

• Lack of central coordination and tracking
• Lack of merit-based selection system
• Lack of post-training evaluation
• Lack of post-training information sharing
• Fossilized/discriminatory civil service
  infrastructure

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Categories

• Women in senior- and mid-level managerial and
  policy-making positions
• Women in administrative and technical positions
• Women in support positions such as cleaners and
  tea servers
• Women who will be displaced in the civil service
  reform process
• Women who will enter the civil service in the
  near- and medium-term future

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Civil Service Reform

• IARCSC
• PAR
• PRR
• RRR

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Civil Service Training

• No centralized coordination or tracking
• Attempt at general inventory by ministry and
  provincial administration
• Source ministries, NGOs and training providers

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Recommendations

• General
• President Karzai should hold government officials
  publicly responsible for a commitment to gender
  equality
• Independent Administrative Reform Civil Service
  Commission (IARCSC) should form an equity unit
• Implement RRR process immediately with gender
  component
• Implement gender-sensitive merit-based selection
  processes for training attendees.
• Ministries and donors participate in central
  training tracking

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Recommendations

• For women who will be displaced in the civil
  service reform process
• Provide opportunity for retraining as teachers
• Provide intensive English language training

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Recommendations

• For women in senior- and mid-level managerial and
  policy-making positions
• Provide business communications training
• Provide training for effective access to women in
  the Parliament

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Recommendations

• For women in administrative and technical
  positions
• Provide business communications training
• Provide intensive English language training

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Recommendations

• For women in support positions such as cleaners
  and tea servers
• Conduct a relevant needs assessment

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Recommendations

• For women who will enter the civil service in the
  near- and medium-term future
• Assist in GTZ research project on civil service
  employment for women

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Contact the Authors

• Rosemary Stasek Consultantrosemary_at_stasek.com
• Sarah AhmadyarProgram Assistantahmadyars_at_hotmail
  .com