Strengthening Implementation of the EU Gender Equality Action Plan – Practitioners’ Network for European Development Cooperation – Bruxelles 23 March 2011

Dr. Annemarie Sancar / Senior Advisor in Gender Equality Mainstreaming

EU Practitionar‘s Network - Bruxelles, March 23, 2011

Gender Equality and Mainstreaming in Swiss development Cooperation

Annemarie SancarSDC Gender Senior Advisor

SDC Gender Mainstreaming Strategies

Strengthening Implementation of the EU Gender Equality Action Plan – Practitioners’ Network for European Development Cooperation – Bruxelles 23 March 2011

Dr. Annemarie Sancar / Senior Advisor in Gender Equality Mainstreaming

Engendering organisations Gender specific programmes

Gender as a transversal theme

-> requires measures to integrate gender in procedures, staff compe-

tence, budgets, indicators, etc.

-> initiatives/budgets to address specific gender issues.

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Dr. Annemarie Sancar / Senior Advisor in Gender Equality Mainstreaming,

SDC- Gender Mainstreaming - history

Milestones o Gender Responsive Budgeting Initiative (07-08), incl. checklisto indep. Evaluation (07-08), management response o Gender Analysis of Expenditures (07, 08)o Annual Progress Report I (benchmark), II (2010)o Gender Equality Network (2009)o Face to Face-events and Capitalization

www.sdc-gender-development.net

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Strengthening Implementation of the EU Gender Equality Action Plan – Practitioners’ Network for European Development Cooperation – Bruxelles 23 March 2011

Dr. Annemarie Sancar / Senior Advisor in Gender Equality Mainstreaming

SDC- Gender Mainstreaming diversity of instruments, approaches, methodsTechnical Instruments and Content mechanisms Analysis of financial decisions, Q-standards (GRB) Reporting, Documenting (Annual Progress Report) Training, capacity development (functional) SDC Gender Budget, regional budgets for GM and action plans reference to local expertise, networks, NGOs, national action plans different forms of cooperation with “think tanks” Transdisciplinary space for exploring gender issues /paradigms in depth (groupe de reflexion, events) Joint actions to reframing gender concepts in strategic processes and policy (cross cutting), increasing definition of power through networking equal opportunity policy (monitoring, Logib)

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Dr. Annemarie Sancar / Senior Advisor in Gender Equality Mainstreaming

SDC- Gender Mainstreaming success stories, challenges, entry points (1)

Elements of Success (Perfomance ↔ Content)Institutional Compliance (APR, standard setting), budgetsSystematization, standard setting, comparability, identification of gaps

Network: from micro issues to macro policies and back (exercising the aggregation of data, exchanging experiences at different levels)

Conceptual debates with external stakeholders to identify stereotyped assumption and explain and critically analyse the “value added”thematic interventions in-house to foster comprehensive debates on poverty, power, sustainability and development Agenda setting in PCM: Time, Care, macro economics

case studies, gender specific analysis, evaluation, discussion to turn them into public goods

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Strengthening Implementation of the EU Gender Equality Action Plan – Practitioners’ Network for European Development Cooperation – Bruxelles 23 March 2011

Dr. Annemarie Sancar / Senior Advisor in Gender Equality Mainstreaming

SDC- Gender Mainstreaming success stories, challenges, entry points (2)

Challenges – and entry points for action! volatility of responsibilities and functions decentralized structure, tracks of communication institutional environment for data transport value of expertise for monitoring (gender, poverty, discrimination) lack of sex-disaggregated data and gender analysis for baselines and implementationFragmentary reporting on gender issues in certain areas of interventions, blurred theories of change for gender equalityTracking without expertise risk to reduce & falsify issue