Gender Mainstreaming Plan: Policy, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

GENDER MAINSTREAMING PLAN Policy, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation 1
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This cover takes pride in PLURALITY! The dierent
dimensions of gender and development emphasizes the
importance of plurality of approaches yet unied with
human rights perspectives. It is but important to develop
and accept the complex views of individuals, in order to
inspire, promote healthy and fruitful partnerships and
potential.
The purpose of this document is to provide an overall
framework in the gender mainstreaming eorts of the
Center for Health Development IV-B (MIMAROPA).
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CENTER FOR HEALTH DEVELOPMENT IV-B
Introduction
Gender and Development: Key Concepts
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Rights-based Programming and GAD Framework
Setting the pillars of the GAD Initiative
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Gender Mainstreaming Plan
Laying down the GAD pipeline
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The Primary Gender Journey
Organizational Assessment and Observations
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Sensitizing the Organization
Fishing out possible GAD allies
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I would like to give my sincere appreciation to all of
those who put forth the eort in making this gender
mainstreaming plan which provides direction
to the Center for Health Development IV-B in
implementing its gender and development eorts.
Promoting gender equality and empowering
women is just one of our Millennium Development
Goals but the issues on gender and development
can immensel inuence the attainment of MDGs
and our commitment targets. Recognizing the
importance of gender and development, and
understanding it well, indicates that we also
recognize the opportunities, limitations and
outcome of change as these things aect both
women and men.
This document will not only serve as our blueprint
for mainstreaming but also an advocacy to have a
vision and a common course of gender equality.
JOSE R. LLACUNA, JR, MD, MPH, CESO IV
OIC-Regional Director
Center for Health Development IV-B (MIMAROPA)
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Gender describes the expectations held about the
abilities, characteristics and behvior of both men and
women in their community. The knowledge, skills
and values of men tend to dier from women since
they are clustered into varied sectors of the society
and this signicantly impacts their position and
decision-making capabilities. The focus of Gender
and Development is to deal with these equally
contribute to, make decisions and benet from the
development process.
In the Center for Health Development IV-B, adopting
the strategy for promoting gender equality was
set in motion. This was spearheaded by the Policy,
Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Cluster by
developing this document which serves as a
guide to guarantee that gender perspectives and
focusing on the goal of gender equality are vital to
all activities.
We believe that a huge progress can be achieved if
there is equality but it would be a dicult to realize
if the eort will be coming from a few. We would like
to take this opportunity to encourage everyone to
support the objectives of gender and development
and help make the world gender-bias free!
ANNA BIRTHDA DATINGUINOO, RN
Cluster Head, Policy, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
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For the past years, unfavorable treatment
of individuals on the basis of gender which
places restrictions on peoples choices,
rights, opportunities, resources and
participation seemed to be insignicant. It
was only until gender issues were discussed
at the United Nations Fourth World
Conference on Women held in Beijing,
China in 1995 that this concern was given
much attention.
During the conference, a global Platform for
Action was agreed upon. The main focus
of this platform is to work on womens
empowerment a bottom-up process
of transforming gender power relations,
through individuals or groups developing
awareness of womens subordination
and building their capacity to challenge
it (Gender and Development: Concepts
and Denitions by Hazel Reeves and Sally
Baden, February 2000). The discussion also
gave direction to the development of a
global strategy to promote gender equality
and that is gender mainstreaming.
Gender mainstreaming, as dened by
United Nations Economic and Social
Council (ECOSOC) in July 1997, is the
process of assessing the implications for
women and men of any planned action,
including legislation, policies or programs,
in any area and at all levels. It is a strategy
for making the concerns and experiences of
women as well as of men an integral part
of the design, implementation, monitoring
and evaluation of policies and programs in
all political, economic and societal spheres,
so that women and men benet equally,
and inequality is not perpetuated.
In the Philippines, gender bias has been
obliviously embraced by culture. To address
this issue, the National Commission on
the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW),
now known as Philippine Commission
on Women (PCW), lead the way in
mainstreaming gender in the government
and this started in 1989 when the
Philippine Development Plan for Women
was developed. This is a comprehensive
plan for Gender and Development that
serves as an outline for the government
in putting their commitment to the
Fourth World Conference on Women
into practice. On the other hand, the
formulation of Women in Development
and Nation-building Act of 1992 directed all
government agencies to review and revise
all their regulations, circulars, issuances and
procedures to remove gender bias therein.
This also contributed in the allocation of 5%
of the agencys total budget to gender and
development concerns.
The Center for Health Development IV-B
(MIMAROPA) seeks to contribute to the
state obligation of the Philippines by
developing its gender mainstreaming
eorts and at the same time, be more
responsive to the gender needs of our
clienteles and partner institutions.
Introduction
Center for Health Development IV-B is
currently making an eort to mainstream
gender not only in the agency but also in
the programs and projects managed and
implemented. In developing the gender
mainstreaming plan, we have analyzed
the present situation of the organization
through an organizational assessment.
CHD IV-B randomly selected respondents
from the dierent clusters and used the
Organizational Development Assessment
Tool of Amaryll Torres, et al. The aim of
the assessment was to identify the level
of knowledge and understanding of CHD
IV-B sta on gender and development,
recognize problems that need to be
addressed when it comes to gender
mainstreaming and guide the focal point
system in creating action plans that are
necessary for engendering the organization
CHDs Primary Gender Journey
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and its programs.
Fifteen respondents answered the
Organizational Development Assessment
Tool. The result of the survey showed that
gender sensitive practices are not very
evident in the organization. They may
be aware that 5% of the total budget is
allotted for Gender and Development but
their understanding of important concepts
or issues concerning GAD is collectively
supercial.
Almost everyone specied the need of
having an orientation or training on Gender
and Development. More specically, it
is identied that the following subject
areas are Key Concepts in Gender and
Development, Integrating Gender and
Development in Health programs, Gender
Audit and Analysis and Gender Planning
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the implementation of the budget lest it
serve, not as a tool for gender mainstreaming
in governance and development but as a
vehicle for added ineciency and wastage.
Moreover, leadership in the region towards
gender equality is needed to make sure that
women and children as program clientele
reach their full potential and considering
gender mainstreaming as a preferred
approach for achieving womens health.
Gender mainstreaming in health aims to
promote equality between women and men
throughout the life course and to achieve
health equity.
To move beyond business as usual and to
accelerate the pace of reform must be taken
deliberately to integrate gender analysis in all
programs, actions including all public health
policies, programs and interventions.
and Budgeting.
Building capacity and integrating gender
analysis is a startling fact that emerges
from this report, notwithstanding the
paucity of reliable data from the extension
oces. There are gaps in understanding the
importance of gender and development in
the integration of each program, more so,
of the way that most health threats aect
gender disparities in health outcomes.
This instrument provides a raw picture
that despite the regional oces existence,
ensuring gender and development in the
integration of health programs remain to be
a challenge. This prompts for a more critical
understanding of basic concepts in gender
and development towards discrete, realistic,
attainable and measurable outcomes in
gender inequality. Among others, the core
understanding of gender and development
in the regional oce is limited, which tends
to blur responsibilities for learners, service
supervisors, program managers, co-workers
and key decision-makers.
With respect to gender planning and
budgeting, a considerable number of
respondents have minimal knowledge on
the purpose of setting aside 5% of the total
budget of the regional oce for gender and
development.
The realm of governance and political
leadership in the regional oce in
determining GAD funds is burdened to
stereotyped projects for team-building,
rest and recreation, and other piggybacked
activities with women. Reality check on how
GAD was being spent in the past years raises
alarm on the need to examine more closely
The three main principles in rights-
based approach are: accountability of
the government and its agencies who
are obligated to fulll human rights,
participation of those with rights such
as women and children, equity/non-
discrimination. The duty of a rights-based
agency such as the Department of Health
is to contribute to the realization of women
and childrens human rights by compelling
the government and its agencies to meet
obligations and by empowering women
and children to claim their entitlements.
Implicit in the approach is the active and
meaningful participation of children,
young people, women and men. It entails
working with other agencies and if need
be, inuencing them, towards common
rights-based goals.
Rights-based programming
and the GAD Framework
Drawing out from the rights-based
approach, a womens rights-based
approach to development initiatives is
based on international human rights
standards which is directed towards the
promotion and protection of womens
rights towards the overall goal of gender
equality.
As aforementioned in the introduction,
essentially, the framework should
incorporate the principles, norms and
standards of the international human rights
instruments that promote gender equality,
in particular, the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women (CEDAW). In line with the
Beijing Platform for Action, a womens
rights-based approach to development
initiatives posits the goal of gender equality
which means equal rights, opportunities,
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to critically analyze gender inequality in
society. Participation refers to womens
collective action to address subordination and
exploitation.
Lastly, at the level of control, the gender gap
is manifested as the unequal power relations
between women and men and to achive such
means a balance of power, in which neither
is of dominance. The focus of governance
and policy environment is not to be taken
for granted in gender mainstreaming as
it requires improved understanding and
tracking of changes in the aforementioned
areas. For example, responsive health systems
reect the societies that create them. To
avoid a situation where they may contribute
to perpetuating health inequities, they
must be more responsive to the needs and
expectations of women as both consumers
and producers of care.
Access
Welfare
Conscientization
Participation
Control
Gender and
Development
Rights-based
Approach
and obligations of women and men, and
an increased potential for both women and
men to inuence, participate and benet
from development processes. Its thrust
on gender equality is premised on the
following: (1) equality is a matter of human
right; and (2) equality is a pre-condition for
eective and sustainable people-centered
development.
The womens rights-based approach to
development initiatives employs a two-
pronged strategy: its development programs
contribute to the empowerment of women
through claim-making and it strengthens
the government and its agencies capacities
to fulll their obligations of enabling women
and men realize their rights.
Consequently, employing this two-pronged
strategy, a program or project could
eect changes in the legal, political, social
and economic structures towards the
improvement in womens and mens lives as
manifested in changes in attitudes towards
women, womens empowerment and the
realization of their rights in all spheres -
reproductive, productive and community
management.
In addition, assessment of a program or
project as to the empowerment of women
and men in the operational level is assessed
on welfare, access, conscientization,
participation and control. Welfare refers to
material welfare and economic status of
women, relative to men while access refers
to womens access to resources as a step to
womens development.
Conscientization, on the other hand,
involves the development of ones ability
In response to the organizational
assessment conducted by the Policy,
Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
Cluster, the gender sensitivity training
++ aims to change the sexual attitudes
and misconceptions public government
employees that contribute to gender-based
discrimination and even violence.
The rst module provides a solid building
block of awareness which provides key
concepts and stimulate participants to get
past politically correct discussions of gender
and development and to grapple with the
reasons why public health professionals
should address gender and its links with
human rights and other determinants of
health.
Succeeding trainings shall cover
conducting gender analysis, auditing and
Sensitizing the Organization
developing gender-responsive actions or
activities, specically to conduct gender
analysis of a health problem, to assess
existing programs and policies, and to
provide a general guideline based on
progressive learning competencies on
gender and development.
At the core of the modules developed is to
understand the impact of the initiative to
the people. Where the focus of is primarily
technical, people will not be adequately
considered - and where people are not
considered, it is dicult to include a gender
perspective.
The gender sensitivity training tackled
topics that include: an introduction to
gender issues, human rights, gender and
health, and reproductive and productive
spheres. The comprehensiveness of such
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issues has created an enabling mechanism
for the organization to discuss gender issues
involving personal, professional and career
development, health and human rights.
Lessons learned within the training stressed
the importance of a critical gender lens
on using awareness in developing the
knowledge base of the organization - in
eecting changes in attitudes, behaviors,
regional policies and programs.
The organizaional and clientele-based
gender sensitivity training ++ has ve key
components: (1) development of module;
(2) actual conduct of the camp (3) training
of trainers (4) training assessments and (5)
support to follow-up activities.
In the development of module for the
gender sensitivity training ++, the sta
relied
heavily on
the researches
and sensitivity
modules of the World Health Organization,
United Nations Population Fund and
other international non-government
organizations. These researches and
experiential learning activities were the
sources of information for the facilitators
handouts.
The training materials, particularly the
module came from a meticulous process
of discussions, critique and consultations
before nalization. Series of workshops and
meetings were conducted to enhance the
design and methodology of the module.
In terms of the methodologies, the sta
used popular education methodologies
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and processes which included visual arts/
painting as culmination, games, structured
learning experiences, role-playing, video
showing and personal narratives targeting
both the cognitive and aective domains
of the learners, eventually, creating
opportunities for reections on the issues
as these aect them on a personal level.
Included also in the module are discussions
on the brief history of human rights and
the dierent international and national
instruments the Philippines has entered
into, the need for the Convention on the
Elimination of Discrimination Against
Women (CEDAW) and state obligation to
correct the environment that disadvantages
women.
Moreover, several discussions on the Anti-
Violence Against Women and Their Children
Act focused on the dierent forms of
abuses and how it is committed to women
and children, battered wife syndrome
and the stereotypes and misconception
aecting the implementation of the
law such as the patriarchal views that
violence against women is a private matter,
ignorance of peace ocers and other
public ocials, and economic dependency
of battered housewives to their partners.
To determine changes in the participants
understanding, perceptions and
knowledges about sexuality and other
gender issues, pre and post tests were
given during the conduct of the training.
The actual conduct of sensitivity treainings
were aimed to provide a social space where
public health ocers and employees to
critique the social construction of sexuality,
to be conscienticized of the roles of women
and men and to challenge other fellow
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employees to a gender-sensitive standard
of working relationship.
To further enhance the conduct of the
gender sensitivity training ++ employed
some built-in process and structures to
draw out lessons and insights out of the
training experience. The problem arises
when gender roles are dened in terms of
biology or sex instead of usng cultural or
social terms. These results to stereotypes or
over-generalized beliefs in the characteristic
of a person based simply on their gender.
Varied reactions from the participants were
evident. Some of which are realizations of
the dierence of gender from sex and how
it misconstrues ones denition, how gender
and development is integrated to human
rights and on the application of gender and
development to their respective households
and personal lives.
Majority of the public health professionals
realized that the work of women generally
are very energy-intensive with low rates
of return, tedious, the nature are longer
than working hours of men and deemed
as invisible and thankless domestic work as
espoused in the short lm, The Impossible
Dream.
Further realizations were how women are
regarded as inferior as men, how media
protrays women and men, and how limited
access to medical and health facilities
women were.
As of the moment, the progress of
sensitizing the organization is up to the
conduct of the camp.
Gender Mainstreaming Plan
KEY RESULT
AREAS
STAGE 1
Foundation Formation
STAGE 2
Installation of Strategic
Mechanisms
STAGE 3
GAD Application
STAGE 4
Commitment
Enhancement and
Institutionalization
POLICY

Review of existing
policies, rules and
regulations of agency
policies and plans
Regional Policy on
Gender Mainstreaming
Adopting PCWs
Harmonized Gender
and Development
Guidelines
Implementing GAD
policies
Gender Audit and
Harmonized Gender and
Development Guidelines
Establishment of
technical working
groups on improving
policies and guidelines,
impact monitoring and
evaluation of policies
Interagency GAD Focal
Systems
PEOPLE
Institutional
Capacity
Development
Organizational
Assessment
Training Needs
Assessment and Gap
Analysis
Identifying practical
and strategic gender
needs of employees
Organization of Core
Group
GAD Focal System
Brown Bag Sessions
Module 1: Gender
Sensitivity Training ++
Module 2: Gender
analysis, auditing and
developing gender-
responsive actions
Established network
of GAD allies and
champions (Internal
and External to the
Organization)
P/P/As
Technical
Assistance
Initial assessment of
gender issues in P/P/As
Participatory Gender
Audit using the
Harmonized Gender
and Development
Guidelines
Strengthening
constructive
engagement in decision-
making of P/P/A
components
Engagement of GAD
Expert teams in the
development and
conduct of P/P/As
Assessed P/P/As and
adoption of program
managers on gender
mainstreaming policy
Conscious Integration
of GAD in P/P/As
ENABLING
MECHANISMS
Technical Working
Groups
Research and
Development
Statistics
Disaggregation of
gender-related data
Identifying gender-
based indicators
or standards for
research, planning and
budgeting
Initial Talks with
regional line agencies
for GAD community of
practice
Setup of GAD Focal
System and other Core
Groups in relation to
GAD (i.e. Committee
on Anti-Sexual
Harrassment, VAWC
Desks, etc.)
GAD Research, Planning
and Budgeting
(Operational and Work
and Financial Plan
Guidelines for GAD
Utilization)
Referral of Gender-
related cases
Policies and P/P/As
assessed for gender
appropriateness
Researches dedicated
for Gender and
Development
Oversight of
organizations eorts in
gender mainstreaming
Timely and Ecient
Reporting of Sex-
Disaggregated Data
Researches conducted
specically for gender
and development
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Gender mainstreaming in policy analysis
and development draws attention to the
impact of policy on people and explores
how this impact could vary for women and
men, given their gender dierences and
inequalities.
A gender perspective contributes to a
more informed view of policy options and
impacts. It should also enable decision-
makers to assess the potential to narrow
gender gaps.
The mainstreaming strategy seeks to ensure
that gender considerations are routinely
included in the assessment of policy issues,
options and impacts, along with other
considerations such as socio-economic
dimensions. It also routinely seeks increased
gender equality as one of the policy
outcomes, along with growth, eciency,
poverty reduction, and sustainability.
This requires the inclusion of gender
perspectives at several points in the policy
process. As a rst step, gender perspectives
should be included in the formulation of
the policy issue/question to be addressed.
Second, gender perspectives are relevant
to the denition of the information needs
to assess policy options. At this point, it
is important to disaggregate data by sex
in order to analyze important trends that
might not be apparent from aggregated
ones. There is a need to ask dierent kinds
of questions and look for information that
helps to formulate or refocus the policy
discussion.
Third, various options could have dierent
consequences for gender relations. Thus,
a careful assessment of the gathered data
must be identied as a matter of routine
so that these become evident in decision-
making process.
Fourth, the inclusion of meaningful inputs
from women and men in the consultation
process should be taken into account or the
determination of who will be consulted and
how on matters such as the formulation of
issues, denition of information needs, and
assessment of options.
Finally, the formulation of the
recommendations for policy choices should
reect the information and analyses on
gender equality issues resulting from the
aforementioned steps and on how it shall
be presented to decision-makers so as to
inuence the attractiveness or viability of
each option.
Policy Analysis and Development
...governments and other actors should promote an active
and visible policy of mainstreaming a gender perspective
in all policies and programs so that, before decisions are
taken, an analysis is made of the effects on women and
men, respectively.
~ Beijing Platform of Action, 1995
Gender mainstreaming in research seeks
to ensure that gender issues are taken
in consideration in planning the overall
research agenda as well as in formulating
specica projects based on gathered
scientic or technical data.
The research agenda shapes the
opportunities available at the
implementation stage. In the past, it
was assumed that women and men
shared priorities and perspectives. Critical
questioning may raise new issues about the
focus and impacts of broad choices about
research priorities.
A major area of attention in research
is the denition of specic research
projects which includes consideration
of the purpose and scope of the project
and whether these can be formulated
to reect the perspectives and priorities
of women as well as men on the issue
under investigation. Likewise, gender
mainstreaming also requires attention to
the methodology proposed and whether
it will ensure that gender dierences and
inequalities are documented and explored.
Gender mainstreaming should also be
visible in the research development cycle
starting from the conduct of the research
and who will conduct the research, even
up to the dissemination of research
ndings.
To mainstream gender perspectives in
the area of research, a deeper analysis
should be made as to how relevenat such
researches are to women and men and
are they invvolved in the methodology
and design, how gender dierences reect
and inuence conceptual framework,
objectives, methodologies, expected
outputs, and anticipated impact of
the research, how can attention to the
dierent situations of women and men
be incorporated into the aspects of the
research design and how will the design
and implementation of the research
address factors that are often produce
unequal opportunities for women and
men.
Selecting researchers is also a fertile area for
gender mainstreaming in order to ensure
that those who have relevant expertise to
understand the gender dimensions of the
research are properly guided.
Lastly, gender dimensions should be
incorporated in the research evaluation
as part of the terminal reports, including
strategies, impacts and outputs produced.
Research and Development
...ensure that all research, policies, programmes, projects
and initiatives address gender issues for this will
contribute to increasing the coverage, effectiveness, effciency
and, ultimately, the impact of health interventions for
both women and men, while at the same time contributing
to achievement of the broader goal of social justice.
~ World Health Organization Gender Policy, 2002
In technical assistance, gender
mainstreaming seeks to ensure that
initiatives undertaken support gender
equality objectives. This requires a critical
eye on expected results of each health
program and how these relate to gender
equality issues.
The Philippine Commission on Women,
has provided Philippine government
agencies and donors with a common set of
analytical concepts and tools on processes
and strategies and further addresses
management results of integrating gender
equality and womens empowerment
concerns into key stages of the project
cycle; project identication and design,
assessment of projects for funding, project
implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
Initiatives supporting government
decentralization, gender mainstreaming
would require taking account of factors
aecting womens representation in
decision-making bodies and the capacity of
decision-makers to recognize and respond
to the needs of both women and men.
To provide an eective way in pursuing
gender mainstreaming is to ensure
that gender equality considerations are
addressed as the assignment is being
dened and in initial discussions with
stakeholders. The scope of initiative must be
dened in ways that facilitate the inclusion
of gender perspectives.
On the formulation and implementation of
phases of technical assistance initiatives is
to strengthen constructive dialogue with
partners who have also made commitments
to gender equality and mainstreaming
gender equality perspectives in policies and
programs.
These may include drawing on regional
commitments to womens rights and
gender equality, ensure that an expert team
includes members with explicit gender
analysis experience, seek gender allies in the
organization, ensure that views of women
and men are obtained in the consultation
process, and consult with local experts on
gender equality.
Regional commitments are important
instruments for dialogue on gender equality
as they link discussions on responsibility and
actions already agreed to. It is undisputed
that organizations and institutions are not
homogeneous and there are usually greater
pockets of support for greater integration of
gender equality considerations.
Technical Assistance
Equality for women is much more than only an ethical
issue. A society that leaves girls and women out of the
development process is one that will never reach its full
potential.
~Rajat Nag,
Managing Director General,
Asian Development Bank
The collection, analysis and dissemination
of statistics form part of the core
information used to set priorities, design
programs, and guide policy.
Given its central nature, gender
mainstreaming is critical in statistics
produced taking in consideration of gender
roles and dierences and inqualities in
society.
All data, be it individual or group, should be
collected, compiled, and analyzed taking
into account the gender-based factors that
inuence women and mens roles, access
to sources, and the way both benet from
access to resources, facilities and services.
Disaggregation of all statistics by sex is
one of the means of ensuring attention
to gender perspectives in statistics but
having data by sex does not guarantee that
concepts, denitions, and methods used
in data production are conceived to reect
gender roles and relations in society.
Mainstreaming in statistics may involve
new types of data or expanding data
collection in some areas to ll existing
knowledge gaps. This necessitates further
attention to the basic concepts utilized
and to methods of collection, analysis to
ensure that gender equality issues are
covered adequately. Deliberate attention
should also be provided to methods of
presentation and dissemination to ensure
that the issues are presented and provided
to all potential target groups.
CHD IV-B shall take the necessary steps in
gender mainstreaming such as: ensuring
that statistics document womens and
mens participation in and contributions
to all social and economic areas, consider
how their experiences may vary in dierent
social or economic groups and how these
dierences might be relevant to statistical
analysis, ensure that the unit of anlysis
adequately represents gender-based
dierences, assure questionnaires and
units of operation used in data collection
represent gender-based dierences,
examine further the underlying causes
and consequences in the framework for
analysis, and ensure that the results of the
analysis are disseminated to all interested
users with a clear language that highlights
gender-based causes and consequences to
programs, activities and policies.
Gender perspectives are also critical in
other reports and publications targeting
decision-makers and the public. It should
highlight he importance of gender equality.
Data collection,
Analysis and Dissemination
Gender statistics is an area that cuts across traditional
felds of statistics to identify, produce and disseminate
statistics that refect the realities of the lives of women
and men and policy issues relating to gender.
~ United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Institutional capacity is fundamantal in order
to pursue eectively the mainstreaming
strategy in our own organization and to
encourage others work in a complementary
fashion with respective institutions.
This long-term process requires explicit,
active and on-going attention, resources and
capital. It is important for CHD to re-examine
its understanding and commitment for
gender and development. Clarity about the
goal of equality between women and men
among professionals, particularly decision-
making levels and commitment to pursuing
institutionalization.
Likewise, CHD must put further stress in the
anlytic and planning skills of public health
professionals to identify and respond to
issues of equality between men and women
relevant to the Department of Healths
mandate.
Structures and mechanisms shall also be
facilitative in ensuring that concerns of both
women and men and equality issues are
raised within planning and decision-making,
enable important inter-sectoral linkages
to be made and hold sta and managers
accountable to outcomes.
The presence of a catalyst in gender
mainstreaming also provides a more
ecient way of cascading gender and
development in an organization as it plays
a signicant role in providing the mandate
of focusing on strategic issues and act as
a catalyst rather than holding the overall
responsibility for implementation of gender
mainstreaming eorts.
It is also signicant that in all program
or policy development is a participatory
structure or means by which consultation
is ensured so that all women and men and
gender equality advocates, can participate
in the decision-making and inuence policy
and program determination.
CHD shall expand its gender lens by seeking
gender advocates in other institutions to
widen further its gender lens and must
develop a conclusive plan or program of
action that sets realistic targets, species
accountabilities and mobilizes the
appropriate levels of support.
As pointed out in the Beijing Platform
of Action, gender analysis is the critical
starting point for gender mainstreaming.
Such analysis is not something to be done
solely by gender advocates but should be
an essential element of the professional
competence of each.
Institutional Development and
Capacity Building for Mainstreaming
Gender mainstreaming strategy is relatively straightforward. A lesson of
experience is that the capacity to work on gender equality issues does not
automatically materialize in an organization. Gender mainstreaming
cannot be achieved without explicit institutional commitment to the
strategy and systematic efforts to implement it.
~ Offce of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues
and Advancement of Women, United Nations
POLICY, PLANNING,
MONITORING AND EVALUATION CLUSTER
QMMC Compound, Project 4, Quezon City
The developmet of this publication has entailed a careful
and deliberate process of development. The Cluster would
like to express gratitude for the content development of
this document, specically to the eorts of Mr. Lester A.
Anonuevo and Ms. Michelle Tanghal, who provided the
technical know-how and directions for the agencys gender
mainstreaming plan.
The Publisher
CENTER FOR HEALTH DEVELOPMENT IV-B
MAINSTREAMING
Gender
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