UN ESCAP Workshop on Women and Disability: Promoting Full Participation of Women with Disabilities in the Process of Elaboration on an International Convention to Promote and Protect the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
18-22 August 2003, Bangkok, Thailand

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Gender Tools for Mainstreaming

UN ESCAP

GENDER TOOLS
FOR MAINSTREAMING

Some techniques and tools to assist policy and programme analysis to mainstream a gender perspective into policy formulation, programme design and development, and programme management and implementation.

1. Gender awareness and gender sensitivity training programmes, which assist policy makers and implementers to identify and address gender issues.

2. Gender analysis, which explicitly identifies differences between women and men in benefits, and the direct and indirect impact of policies, programmes and projects.

Gender statistics, which :

1. Present all individual level data disaggregated by sex
2. Provide specific data on emerging gender issues such as the counting and valuation of unpaid labour, the incidence, nature and impact of violence against women, and the role of women in business

Gender indicators and indexes, such as the UNDP Gender and Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measure, which enable progress towards gender equality to be monitored and the impact of particular approaches and strategies to be measured.

Gender budgeting and gender audits, which analyze resource allocation in terms the of spheres directed toward meeting the needs of women and men, and report the extent to which governments and agencies match their commitments to gender mainstreaming with concrete financial allocations for addressing gender and women's issues.

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