V.G: Gender Equality and Empowerment

Integrating dimension: gender equality and the empowerment of women

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115. The Millennium Summit of 2000 reaffirmed gender equality as a development goal itself (MDG3) and women’s empowerment as development goals and underlined its importance as a means to achieve all of the other MDGs. UNDP will integrate a gender perspective into its four focus areas to increase development effectiveness. In addition to this, UNDP will set clear targets and benchmarks throughout its own organization for achieving gender parity and gender sensitivity in the workplace. UNDP will continue to build internal capacity to address gender dimensions in all work. Focus will be given to developing policy and measurement tools and indicators, regular monitoring and reporting, and advocacy. The UNDP gender strategy for 2008-2011 will build on the current Gender Action Plan (2006-7) to: (a) Develop capacities, in-country and in-house, to integrate gender concerns in all practice areas and in global, regional and country programmes. (b) Provide gender-responsive policy advisory services that promote gender equality and women’s empowerment in all focus areas. (c) Support specific interventions that benefit women and scale up and expand innovative models developed and tested by UNIFEM. 116. UNDP will work across practices and in partnership with other United Nations agencies on initiatives aimed at helping national partners to: (a) Incorporate gender equality into MDG-based planning and monitoring, and apply gender-sensitive budgeting techniques; (b) Reduce violence against women and reduce the vulnerability of women and girls to HIV infection and the burden of care on them; (c) Expand women’s participation in governance and decision-making processes and strengthen women’s property and inheritance rights; and (d) Reduce time burdens on women and girls through mainstreaming gender into environment and energy policies. 117. UNDP, UNIFEM, UNFPA, and UNICEF have prepared a background paper that outlines collective efforts to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment, and the unique role of each agency in this process, for discussion with members of the Executive Board.

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