Gender mainstreaming
Empowered and equal: gender equality strategy 2008-2011
UNDP Gender Equality Strategy 2008-11
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United Nations Development Programme , 2007
This document presents the UNDP’s Gender Equality Strategy (GES) 2008-11. It is grounded in the premise that the development objective of equality between men and women, or gender equality, is absolutely indivisible from the UNDP human development goal of real improvements in people’s lives and in the choices and opportunities open to them.
UNDP understands gender equality to be an irreducible condition for inclusive, democratic, violence-free and sustainable development, and as such it is articulated in the updated UNDP Strategic Plan 2008-11 (SP) as an “integrating dimension ” of UNDP’s work. The Gender Equality Strategy describes how the required integration will take place.
It sets out in greater detail how UNDP will work towards the goals defined in the updated SP in such a manner that supports countries in accelerating their progress towards gender equality as an integral component of human development.
The GES provides in its results-framework a broad range of gender-sensitive outcomes and indicators for each result area of the SP. Use of this results framework will facilitate UNDP staff in planning for and reporting on gender equality results.As with the SP, the GES describes broad areas of action and the results to be achieved at the aggregate or global level.
The document has three parts. It follows broadly the structure of the SP, setting out in Part A the contextual issues of mandate and value that have guided the selection of priorities.
In Part B the substantive content of UNDP’s work on Coordination in the UN system and in operationalizing its four focus areas is laid out from a gender perspective, while in Part C the various institutional arrangements that will support the full integration of gender equality considerations into UNDP’s work are outlined.
