PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN PAKISTANI NGOs AND CIDA

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PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN PAKISTANI NGOs AND CIDA

• International Conference NGO Fair on the Human
  Rights of Women and Children in Pakistan
• Rukhsana Rashid, Gender Advisor, CIDA Pakistan
  Program, Islamabad
• 17th November, 2005
• Lahore

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INTERNATIONAL POLICY STATEMENT 2005

• Canadas Commitment to Gender Equality
• Gender equality means that women and men have
  equal conditions for realising their full human
  rights and potential to contribute to national,
  political, economic, social and cultural
  development, and to benefit from these results.

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INTERNATIONAL POLICY STATEMENT 2005

• The IPS reaffirms gender equality as an ODA
  priority and gives CIDA its strongest mandate yet
  on equality between women and men and womens
  empowerment by requiring both the articulation
  and achievement of results in gender equality
  across all programming and policies

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INTERNATIONAL POLICY STATEMENT 2005

• Gender equality as a crosscutting theme applies
  to all policy, regional, country, institutional,
  sectoral, program and project levels.
• A two-pronged approach is used
• 1. CIDA will strengthen its support to specific
  gender equality programming in the five sectors
  of focus that is, programming with a primary
  focus on narrowing gender gaps
• 2. CIDA will integrate gender equality in all
  programming that is, all programming will be
  expected to explicitly address at least one of
  the three corporate results on gender equality

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INTERNATIONAL POLICY STATEMENT 2005

• The Agency has identified three corporate-level
  gender equality results
• Decision Making More equal participation of
  women with men as decision makers in shaping the
  sustainable development of their societies
• Rights Women and girls more able to realize
  their full human rights
• Development Resources and Benefits Reduced
  inequalities between women and men in access to
  and control over the resources and benefits of
  development

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CIDAs POLICY ON GENDER EQUALITY ,1999

• Goal To support the achievement of equality
  between women and men to ensure sustainable
  development.
• Objectives
• To advance women's equal participation with men
  as decision-makers in shaping the sustainable
  development of their societies
• To support women and girls in the realization of
  their full human rights and
• To reduce gender inequalities in access to and
  control over the resources and benefits of
  development.
• Link to the Policy http//www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/equa
  lity

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CIDAS COUNTRY PROGRAM FRAMEWORK FOR PAKISTAN
2002 TO 2006

• CIDA's CPF for Pakistan has GE not only as a
  cross-cutting theme, underpinning the key
  priorities of support for democratic local
  governance social development, but also as a
  priority in its own right.
• Under the GE objective, CIDA's aim is to
  contribute to the improvement of women's human
  rights, health, education economic empowerment.

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CIDAS GENDER PROGRAM

• A combination of initiatives are used to
  integrate gender across the Program, these
  include
•    Gender Integrated Projects
•     Gender (Women) Specific Projects
•     Gender Funds WDPr PAGE

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CIDAS GENDER PROGRAM (contd)

• CIDAs strengths in the area of gender
  programming include
• Gender is a cross cutting theme
• Donor coordination and collaboration
• Support to NGOs promoting WID and gender
  equality
• Support to womens advocacy groups
• Support to GOP institutions
• Developing linkages between Pakistani and
  Canadian organisations
• Gender sensitisation and training
• Institutional strengthening and capacity
  development

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CIDAS GENDER PROGRAM (contd)

• 3 new GE projects ADB-SIGRAP ILO-WEC and
  PAGE/UNDP-GSP - all 3 are in partnership with GOP
• Womens Participation in Local Government
  Elections with Aurat Foundation
• Effective Representation by Women Councillors
  with Aurat Foundation closing stages

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Role of CSOs in CIDA Pakistan Program

• History of engagement with Pakistani CSOs
  especially womens rights NGOs, through a series
  of gender funds since early 1990s
• CIDA support to numerous CSOs through larger
  project interventions through smaller fund
  mechanisms
• Range of partners - SAP Pk SPO AF AKRSP
• AKF-P SPDC FPAP IUCN
• Punjab Initiative Fund under CIDAs Devolution
  Support Project based in Lahore. Link
  http//www.pakdevolution.com/pif_intro.htm

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Program for the Advancement of Gender Equality
(PAGE)2002 2008

• Goal
• To contribute to the improvement of womens human
  rights, health, education and economic
  empowerment in Pakistan
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• Objective
• To enable civil society organisations and
  government to strengthen, accelerate and
  influence policy and programming to advance
  gender equality in Pakistan

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Program for the Advancement of Gender Equality
(PAGE)

• Competitive Sub-project Selection and Approval
• Competitive process through call for proposals
• Screening
• Evaluation and recommendation
• Approval
• Contracting
• Call for proposals launched on September 18,
  deadline is November 18, 2005. http//www.cida-pag
  e.org/index.htm
• Newspaper advertisements
• Website
• Email based discussion/information lists
• Announcements at meetings
• Letters

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Distribution of Sub-projects by Focus Area