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Title: UN Policies and Actions in Ensuring Gender Mainstreaming


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UN Policies and Actions in Ensuring Gender
Mainstreaming
  • International Conference on Humanitarian
    Assistance and Gender
  • Oslo, Norway
  • May 5th, 2008

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What is Gender Mainstreaming?
  • It is a process that helps to ensure that
    everyone girls,boys, men and women are
    accounted for equally and equitably in all
    aspects concerning their lives

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Humanitarian and Emergency Situations
  • Armed conflict
  • Disaster
  • Recovery
  • Reconstruction

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What does GM have to do with Humanitarian Work?
  • It ensures that no one is excluded, marginalized
    or discriminated against because of their sex in
  • Protection measures (e.g. GBV)
  • Services (e.g. education)
  • Opportunities (e.g. loans and employment)
  • Basic needs (food, water, sanitation, health,
    shelter, justice)

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What does GM have to do with Humanitarian Work?
  • To prevent and relieve suffering of those
    affected by a humanitarian context
  • Protect the rights and freedoms of women, girls,
    boys and men
  • Promote equal opportunities and rights of all
    free from any discrimination based on sex and
    gender ascribed roles due to social norms

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How do Humanitarian Situations and Emergencies
Affect Gender?
  • Armed conflict and other forms of crisis
    negatively affect gender imbalances that predate
    the humanitarian situation
  • Conflict exaggerates and emphasizes gender
    stereotypical roles
  • Gender-based violence and forced migration and
    displacement destabilize societies
  • Laws and other public institutions as well as
    private social networks fail to protect in
    conflict
  • Men and women are affected by the conflict
    differently

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When does gender equality need to be integrated
into institutional work?
  • Gender equality should be taken into
    consideration at all programmatic levels
  • Contingency planning including analysis and risk
    reduction
  • Immediate onset response following crisis
    ensuring basic needs are met equitably
  • Early recovery community participation,
    involvement of womens groups
  • Reconstruction peace process, social
    reunification, retribution and preventing
    impunity
  • Transition for economic development and equal
    opportunity

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Gender Mainstreaming Done Right
  • Better meet needs and priorities of affected
    population in a targeted manner
  • Ensures that all people affected by crisis are
    acknowledged
  • Ensure everyones vulnerabilities are accounted
    for (very important for protection issues,
    especially GBV)
  • Facilitates design of more appropriate response
    (i.e. more equitable)

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Interagency Standing Committee Policy Statement
on Gender
  • The IASC is committed to achieving gender
    equality, ensuring human rights of women, girls,
    boys and men are equally promoted and protected
    in humanitarian action, and ensuring that women,
    girls, boys and men have equitable, safe access
    to services provided

10
IASC Five-Way Strategy (2006)
  • Set standards handbook on Gender in Humanitarian
    Situations
  • Build Surge Standby Capacity
  • Sex and Age Disaggregated Data for Analysis
    consultant work to then work with clusters on
    improving data quality and availability
  • Capacity-Building Measures Distance Learning
    Module for field staff for UN, NGOs and other
    partners (Internet/CD Rom based)
  • Building Partnerships Interaction

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UN Commitment to Gender Equality
  • Work of GM began in 1995 following Beijing 4th
    International Conference on Women
  • Gender Task Force converted to an IASC
    Sub-Working Group that includes UN, NGO and other
    individual organizations (OXFAM, CARE)
  • UN Humanitarian Reform (Cluster Approach)
    recognizes gender as a cross-cutting issue
    (health, education, shelteretc.) with
    accountable cluster leads

12
UN Commitment to Gender Equality
  • Integration of gender in Humanitarian
    Coordinators system
  • CERF (central emergency response fund) is a
    priority issue and critical requirement for
    funding
  • Example Kenya CERF received funding for training
    and coordination of gender through Gender
    sub-working group and combatting GBV also funded
    as a result

13
Role of NGOs
  • Building partnerships with other UN and NGO
    actors in the humanitarian field
  • Ensure actors understand the application of
    gender equality in humanitarian context (Ref
    IASC handbooks on Gender and GBV in Humanitarian
    Action)
  • Mobilization of like-minded humanitarian actors

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Role of NGOs
  • Ensure collaboration with other actors (Tell
    others what you are doing and work with them)
  • Surge Standby Capacity Deployment of staff and
    experts to help apply Gender Equality action
    (e.g. GENCAP)
  • Operational Action service provision (e.g.
    eduation projects from Norway Save the Children)
  • Advocate keep gender equality as a right and
    protection from GBV and gender discrimination on
    the forefront
  • Ensure Accountability of UN and other actors

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Examples
  • Protection from Gender Based Violence
  • Use GBV guidelines checklist
  • Ensure confidentiality
  • Protect survivors right to choice
  • Provide choice of options for counseling,
    treatment and seeking justice
  • Advocate to ensure there is no impunity for
    perpetrators

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Examples
  • Provision of services
  • Camp establishment toilets protected? In a safe
    area? Separate for girls/boys?
  • Schooling girls are going as well as boys?
    Located in a safe place? Affordable to everyone?
  • Health Affordable? Accounts for the special
    needs of women, particularly those of
    reproductive age?

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Examples
  • Coordination
  • Ensure codes of conduct for good gender practice
    are adhered to by all actors
  • Data on age and sex dissaggregated basis
    available and used in analysis
  • Coordinate with all partners for better targeted
    actions
  • Get everyones opinion! Ensure that women, men,
    girls and boys participate

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Examples
  • Capacity-building
  • GenCap
  • ProCap
  • Use Cluster System to ensure integration of
    gender principles, tools and guidelines applied
  • Example CD rom/Internet based module on gender
    in humanitarian action with certificate for
    preparation in the field (with American Council
    for Voluntary International Action Interaction)

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Resources
  • IASC Policy Guidelines on Gender Equality in
    Humanitarian Situations (draft)
  • IASC Handbook on Gender Mainstreaming in
    Humanitarian Situations
  • IASC Handbook on Gender Based Violence in
    Humanitarian Situations

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Resources
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