1 mainstreaming in planning & development division and departments project supported by: gender
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Mainstreaming
in Planning & Development Division and
Departments ProjectSupported by:
Gender
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Project: Gender Mainstreaming Department: Planning and Development Division & Departments
NORADUS$ 0.3M
CIDAUS$ 1.5M
Donors Share
Project Cost: US$ 4.5M
Peshawar
Gilgit
Muzaffarabad
Quetta
Lahore
Karachi
PROJECT LOCATIONS
Project Locations: Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta, Gilgit, Muzafarabad
Head Office: Islamabad
Project Duration: 3 Years
Project Scope
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About Gender Mainstreaming ProjectIn Planning & Development Division and Departments Project
iFormulation
iiImplementation
iiiMonitoring
ivEvaluation
“Build the capacity of the government officials to
mainstream gender in the…
…of government policies, plans, programme and project in
all areas of development”.
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Project Objectives
Gender sensitization of senior and mid-level planning and development (P&D) officials at the federal, provincial and district levels.
Developing capacity for gender analysis, planning, monitoring and evaluation.
Establishing gender disaggregated databases using information and communication technology skills and competencies.
Establishing knowledge based networking, e-forums, and a community of gender mainstreaming practitioners.
Developing institutional mechanisms and procedures for systematic gender mainstreaming and accountability in government.
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Capacity Development thru
Gender Mainstreaming Project
A high priority of the Project is to raise the awareness of senior officials and policy makers of the government. The training comprises of four categories, each with defined target group as follows:
• senior government • professional civil
servants working in the top tiers of government
• legislators• managers and data
managers
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Type Type of Trai ning Duration Target Group
S1 Gender Sensitization day Senior Government Managers
S2 Gender Sensitization 1 day Professional Civil Servants
S3 Advocacy/Sensitization 1 day Legislators
S4 Sensitization 1 day Data Managers
T1 Gender Analysis 2 days Senior Mid-level advisory staff
T2 Gender Analysis 2 weeks Officers dealing with basic level project proposal/programme
C1 Computer Skills 4 days Senior-mid level supervisory staff
C2 Computer Skills 5 days Officers dealing with basic level project proposal/programme
C3 Website development 1-1/2 day
Selected Federal and Provincial Officers
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Projects Supported by GSP
Gender Mainstreaming
in PDDD
Contribute to
povert y eradication
efforts through gender
responsive governance and a
o rights-based appr ach to
sustainable human development
Women Access to Capital & Technology
Institutional Strengthening of the NC on the Status of Women
Gender Responsive Budgeting Initiative
Gender Justice through Musalihat
Anjuman
Working Towards Achieving the National
and International commitments on
Gender and Poverty Issues
Women Political School
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Overview of Gender Support Programme
Political ParticipationWomen’s Political School, MoWD (mega
intervention to make women councilors and local government more effective).
Interventions – providing ToT, training 36000 councilors, building support link.,
sharing info. and institutional strengthening.
Institutional Strengtheningof NCSW Gender Responsive Budgeting, MoFGender Mainstreaming in the Planning Process, P&DD Achieving National & Int’l Commitments on Gender & Poverty Issues, MoWD
Economic EmpowermentWomen’s Access to Capital and
Technology (WACT). Enhance economic status of urban and rural women through
credit, promoting small and medium entrepreneurship, building capacity,
facilitating ICT solutions and networking.
Enabling Social EnvironmentGender Justice through Musahilat Anjuman (MA). Interventions – build capacity of MA members, enhance public engagement, promote women’s awareness of their rights, utilize services of the MA.
Contribute to poverty eradication efforts through gender responsive governance
and a rights-based approach to sustainable human development
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Introduction
Session
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Introductions
Icebreaker
Norms
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To review concepts of gender and establish its relevance for equitable and sustainable development;
To provide policy makers with a rationale as to why gender should be mainstreamed in policies, programmes and projects;
To share strategies for gender mainstreaming.
Overall Discussion Objectives
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Agenda
Session #
Session Title
0 Inauguration
1 Introduction
2 Why Gender Matters for Policy Makers
3 Mainstreaming Gender in Policies, Programs & Projects
4 Taking Forward the Gender Agenda
Vote of Thanks
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Why Gender Matters forPolicy Makers
Session
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• Every 20 minutes a woman dies …. from preventable complications of pregnancy and child birth
• More women die of communicable diseases than men.
• The infant mortality rate from 1995 to 2000 was 98 for girls and 93 for boys per 1,000 births.
• The literacy rate for women (39%) is nearly half that of men ( 63%).
• The sex difference in child mortality is one of the highest in the world, with death rates for girls aged 1-4 years being 66% higher than for boys in the same age group.
• Pakistan is one of the few countries in the world in which men outnumber women in the population and women have a lower life expectancy than men.
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At the bottom of the pile…
• UNDP’s Gender Development Index (GDI), Pakistan ranks 120th out of 144 countries (it is below both India and Bangladesh)
• The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) it ranks 64th out of 78 countries
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Overview of GoP Commitments
International Commitments
• MDGs – Millennium Development Goals (MDGs, 2000)
• CEDAW – in force on September 3, 1981 Pakistan ratified in 1996
Major Initiatives
• GRAPs – National and Provincial GRAPs (2004)
• Decentralization Support Program - TA2
• GSP - Gender Support Programme (2003-2008)
National Commitments
• MTDF – Mid Term Development Framework (2005-10)
• NPA – by Ministry of Women and Development, September 1998.
• NPDEW – by Ministry of Women and Development, 2002
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WHY Do the Disparities
Persist?
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Case Studies1 2
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Gender-Blind Development
• Renovation of water courses in Mardan• Aga Khan Education Services (AKES) in
the Northern Areas • Water supply scheme in Balochistan• Sindh’s education policy for rural areas • A rice research project in Punjab
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Gender refers to the economic, social and cultural attributes and opportunities associated with being a man or a woman in a given society.
Unpacking Gender
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Engendering Development Means Recognizing….
• Women and men often have different needs and priorities due to their different status and roles in society
• Development interventions have to be based on an understanding of gender roles
• Women and their needs and priorities have to be given as much importance as those of men
• Only then is humane, just and sustainable development possible
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Message for Policy Makers and Planners
Resources and facilities usually
benefit those who are best placed to
exploit them.
Although development interventions claim to be neutral, it tends to benefit those who are:
• better off• educated• well-informed• more accessible• having greater access
All of the above are more likely to be men than women
An unconscious bias against the disadvantaged,
especially against women
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When water flows it takes the path of least resistance ….similarly to whom resources will flow is determined by
our values, beliefs and commitments
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Gender Mainstreaming in Policies, Programs &
Projects
Session
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How can policy makers & planners
ensure that the needs and
expectations of all members of society are met equitably?
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Understanding Gender Mainstreaming
“ …the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programs, in all areas and at all levels. It is a strategy for making women’s as well as men’s concerns and experiences an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programs in all political, economic, and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated.”
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Gender Mainstreaming in Policies, Programs and Projects
Situation Assessment & Analysis
Project Implementation
Project Goals/Objectives, Strategy &
Project Management
Monitoring / Evaluation
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Gender Mainstreaming in …
Situation Assessment & Analysis
Project Implementation
Project Goals/Objectives, Strategy &
Project Management
Monitoring / Evaluation
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Situation Assessment and
Analysis
Were gender disaggregated data and gender analysis used in the
background and justification of the policy, program or project?
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Story behind
the Numbers
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1. Once upon a time the sex-disaggregated data for a National TB Program
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35000
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1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
MaleFemale
Conclusion?Action?
Case Study
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The question you did not ask:
Do these differences in notification rates reflect a true difference in TB incidence for women and men?
Need for gender statistics
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3. Gender statistics were collected, followed
by gender analysis and gender-related issues emerged as follows:
• Differences in clinical symptoms in women and men:
• Sputum test regime: women tend not to come back to
the clinic to complete their sputum test
• Quality of sputum produced by men and women
• Understanding of and belief about TB
• Health-care seeking behavior and TB diagnosis
• Compliance with treatment and recovery after
treatment.
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Information is Power
1. Obtain Sex -Disaggregated Data 2. Obtain Gender Statistics Reveals if there are differences
between women and men, boys and girls on a specific issue.
Information/data on specific issues where a gender disparity is known to
exist.
3. Probe for Gender Analytical Information The results of gender analysis – provides information about what the cause of the difference is, and how to
address it.
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Gender Mainstreaming in …
Situation Assessment & Analysis
Project Implementation
Project Goals/Objectives, Strategy
& Project Management
Monitoring / Evaluation
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Project Goals/Objectives,
Strategy and Project
Management
Are the needs of both women and men reflected in the goals, objectives and strategies of the Project?
Is there a clear policy for mainstreaming women?
Has appropriate budgeting been assigned for sufficient for the development of both men and women?
Does the strategy consider men’s and women’s practical and strategic gender needs?
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Gender Mainstreaming in …
Situation Assessment & Analysis
Project Implementation
Project Goals/Objectives, Strategy &
Project Management
Monitoring / Evaluation
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Project Implementation
Will both men and women participate in the implementation?
Are those who will implement the Program or Project gender aware?
Has adequate and appropriate resources been aligned to work with both men and women?
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Gender Mainstreaming in …
Situation Assessment & Analysis
Project Implementation
Project Goals/Objectives, Strategy &
Project Management
Monitoring / Evaluation
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Monitoring/Evaluation Does the monitoring and evaluation
strategy have a gender perspective?
Do the indicators measure the gender dimension of each objective?
Have appropriate methods and resources been assigned to obtain information from both gender?
Is there provision for a communication strategy?
Does the project redress a previous unequal sharing?
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Government Officials Must Not Assume
It means that all government officials…… at all levels, no longer simply assume that either gender (especially women) will automatically benefit from a proposed policy or program. Rather, it is consciously thinking about how this will happen.
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Taking Forward the Gender Agenda …..
Session
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Gender Mainstreaming … What Does it Need?
Strengthened Processes by
Mainstreaming in Policy,
Programme or Project
Document
Internal Commitment from Senior Most
Leadership
Support from
Experts
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Feedback
Excellent
Worthwhile
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Feedback• Q.1. How would you rate the following sessions? (tick your
feedback)
• Q.2 Please inform us of those aspects of the session that you found most useful (e.g. contents, concepts, use of case studies, participatory aspect of the event, material, etc).
• Q.3 Please identify one step that you would like to take in order to mainstream gender in your organization’s policy, programme or planning processes.
• Q.4 What support could the Gender Mainstreaming Project extend to your organization with regard to mainstreaming gender?