Keyword: gender
Three papers on women & fundamentalisms
AWID, the Association for Women's Rights in Development, launched an initiative that focuses on fundamentalism in 2006. The project is entitled "Resisting and Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms: An advocacy-research project". It explores various forms of fundamentalism and the effects on the position, rights and freedoms of women. From all over the world, AWID has gathered examples from women organisations and activists about how they approached the situation in their own countri...
On track with gender
A 3-year process on gender mainstreaming that aims to improve policy and practice towards gender equality. Includes one thematic workshop based on five electronically discussed position papers; field exchange with leading gender research institutes and NGO partners in the South; and gender mainstreaming institutional assessment, making use of gender programming and policy laboratory tools.Gender mainstreaming or awaystreaming
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 we...
Policy brief Gender Mainstreaming
Almost 15 years ago, governments committed themselves to achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing (1995). This was to be realised through gender mainstreaming. Fifteen years later, the results of gender mainstreaming seem to be disappointing. However, a comprehensive and systematic study on the possible causes of andsolutions for this limited success was lacking. This Policy Brief aims to shed light on the current gender mainst...
Policy Brief Gender Mainstreaming 2.0
This policy brief aims to deepen our understanding and provide new insights in order to bring gender mainstreaming to the next level. Synthesis papers and cases studies have been produced in four policy areas to learn more about the ways in which GM has been implemented. These range from violence against women to micro-finance, and from value chain development to the aid architecture. In this policy brief we present the experiences in these specific policy domains, share our key insights on g...
Policy Brief Gender Mainstreaming 2.0
This policy brief aims to deepen our understanding and provide new insights in order to bring gender mainstreaming to the next level. Synthesis papers and cases studies have been produced in four policy areas to learn more about the ways in which GM has been implemented. These range from violence against women to micro-finance, and from value chain development to the aid architecture. In this policy brief we present the experiences in these specific policy domains, share our key insights on g...
9. How to integrate gender analysis and planning in ToC thinking?
A recent DAC Note evaluating 20 years experience of promoting and mainstreaming gender equality concludes on the basis of twenty six thematic gender evaluations that gender is not mainstreamed in the majority of bilateral and multilateral development organisations. Achieving such a change of this magnitude needs more concerted and consistent action. Inequality is the product of a complex web of forces and cannot be changed by isolated forces.Women & Fundamentalisms
AWID, the Association for Women's Rights in Development, launched an initiative that focuses on fundamentalism in 2006. The project is entitled "Resisting and Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms: An advocacy-research project". It explores various forms of fundamentalism and the effects on the position, rights and freedoms of women. From all over the world, AWID has gathered examples from women organisations and activists about how they approached the situation in their own countri...
Taking Stock Seminar (29 May)
The aim of the Taking Stock Seminar of 29 May (NL) is to engage in a dialogue with experts as well as those who take an interest in gender, but for whom gender is maybe indirectly part of their work, and not necessarily their main expertise. The seminar builds on insights from the five papers that are being prepared right now. These papers address the practice of gender mainstreaming policies in Dutch development organisations as well as development studies within universities. They also refl...› read more...
Date: 29 May : Location: ISS, The Hague
Date: 29 May : Location: ISS, The Hague
Gender Mainstreaming 2.0 Dialogue
What can we learn from mainstreaming practices in different policy areas? What’s new and how can gender mainstreaming be made more future-proof? The Gender Mainstreaming 2.0 Dialogue seeks to re-energize gender mainstreaming and take it to the next level. We will look at practices from different policy areas, ranging from violence against women, to microfinance and value chain development, as well as the aid architecture. This event seeks to create synergy across these policy fields.› read more...
Date: 21 February : Location: Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague
Date: 21 February : Location: Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague
Policy brief Gender Mainstreaming
Almost 15 years ago, governments committed themselves to achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing (1995). This was to be realised through gender mainstreaming. Fifteen years later, the results of gender mainstreaming seem to be disappointing. However, a comprehensive and systematic study on the possible causes of andsolutions for this limited success was lacking. This Policy Brief aims to shed light on the current gender mainst...