Second Regional Workshop on Gender and Poverty Reduction Strategies

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Second Regional Workshop on Gender and Poverty
Reduction Strategies

• September 17-18, 2003
• Siem Reap Cambodia
• Day 2

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Review of Day 1

• Facilitating Team
• 0830 0845

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Module 3 Costing and gender-responsive budgeting
for the PRS

• Facilitator
• Nalini Burn
• 104 1230

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Module 4 Advocacy for Gender-Responsive Policies
Implementation of PRS

• Facilitator Mia Hyun
• 1400 1630

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Presentation Gender-Responsive Policy Analysis
in Cambodia 1400 1415
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Synthesis1415 1430

• Lorraine Corner

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Identifying the problem is Key

• Macro level is the PRSP pro-poor?
• If pro-poor, is it gender-responsive?
• How does specific issue (women garment workers
  WTO) relate to other macro policy issues?
  liberalization, lack of employment, rural
  development, HRD etc
• Cambodian Team Experience - difficult to identify
  mainstream issues
• Lack technical knowledge
• Focused on women
• Not at the decision-making table

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To identify best strategies

• Need
• Engendered data
• Gender-responsive analysis by sex and other
  relevant socio-economic dimensions
• Gender-sensitive national staff
• Gender-sensitive international advisors and
  donors especially for LDCs - especially when
  NOT considering women
• Identify several alternative strategies
• Evaluate pros cons (gender perspective)
• Assess costs and benefits
• Select best strategy

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Implementation Advocacy Strategy Map

• Develop an Advocacy Map to identify
• stakeholders
• roles of each stakeholder
• Beneficiaries
• Advocates
• Policy makers
• Programme implementation
• Monitoring evaluation
• specific actions required of each
• most effective advocates for each stakeholder

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Developing an advocacy strategy

• Consultations with stakeholder groups
• To identify message to motivate stakeholder to
  act
• Evidence needed to support sell - the message
  to that stakeholder
• Identify specific target and advocacy medium
  (lobbying? Campaign? Posters? etc)
• Monitor implementation results

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National machineries for women womens NGOs
have vital roles in advocacy monitoring
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Group Work 11430 1450

• In country groups, taking same policy action as
  this morning
• Identify SOME stakeholders agencies, groups
  involved in or have an interest in this?
• For each stakeholder
• identify role or interest
• action needed for gender-responsive
  implementation?
• Prepare a Policy Map on a Flip Chart for gallery
  viewing

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Gallery Viewing Group Work 11450 1455Note
stakeholder groups you may have overlooked
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Group Work 21455 1530 (with tea break)

• Select ONE stakeholder or group to be targeted
  for advocacy.
• What advocacy message might persuade them to take
  the required action?
• How could this message be most effectively
  presented to that stakeholder?
• What would be the specific role or contribution
  to the advocacy for
• National Womens Machinery?
• Civil Society?

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Group Work 2 Reporting

• Mia Hyun
• 1530 1600

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Role of Civil Society in Advocacy Indonesian
experience

• Presentation Ms Titik Hartini, ASPUK
• 1600 - 1615

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Country Regional Groups

• VN Need to work at from central to local levels
• LaoPDR inter-sectoral linkages - infrastructure
  and social service delivery
• Indonesia-Timor Leste focus on consequences of
  poor health care loss of life
• Mongolia reverse gender gap how to increase
  boys without decreasing girls education
• Cambodia action at local level link to policy
  change
• Regional group linking grassroots voice to
  policy papers, consideration of macro economic
  context

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Synthesis/ Mia Hyun1615 1630

• Policy action is starting point what change do
  you want to see and what action needs to be
  taken?
• Who are your allies? Who are the decision makers?
  
• When do they make decisions? critical entry
  points
• Strategize around these
• Each stakeholder/decision-maker needs a specific
  message
• Evidence to support these?
• alternative indicators?
• Costing/budget allocation source of funds?

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Strategizing for the October regional Conference
on PRS

• Shireen Lateef, ADB

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What next?

• ONE personal commitment what will YOU do when
  you return home?
• COUNTRY follow-up what follow-up action/s from
  the country group?
• Suggestions for World Bank, ADB, UNIFEM/UNDP,
  donor follow-up?

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Evaluation

• Please write on SEPARATE cards
• What was MOST useful about the workshop?
• What was LESS useful?
• Suggestion/s for the next regional workshop on
  gender PRS?

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Thank you
Safe Trip Home!