Gender mainstreaming or awaystreaming

Additional tags: Equity , Gender , Policy

Originally, gender mainstreaming (GM) carried the promise of a transformative strategy, by which policy formulation and implementation would be reorganized and improved with the ultimate goal of promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment. Over the past decade, GM has ran the risk of turning into an integration strategy. GM was rapidly and readily accepted by many Dutch and international development institutions after the Beijing conference (1995). Yet, the GM strategies and policies were often not very context and organization specific, which resulted in the evaporation of GM in its actual implementation.

This is one of the outcomes of the On Track With Gender meetings that we're held on 28 and 29 May. Read the report!