UNDP - Gender Mainstreaming - Gender Equality Between Women and Men

The empowerment of women and achieving gender quality permeates everything we do - our policies, programmes and investments - Kemal Dervis, Former UNDP Administrator

Gender mainstreaming is the strategy adopted by UNDP to strengthen its impact on the situation of women and on gender equality. The term “gender mainstreaming” came into widespread use with the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action in 1995.

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Gender Mainstreaming serves to highlight a major lesson derived from slow progress in achieving real change in the situation of women despite efforts over two decades – that significant change cannot be achieved by adding marginal programmes for women. Rather, what is required is changes in mainstream policies and resource allocations to reflect the interests and views of women as well as men.

What is gender mainstreaming?

Publications & Toolkits

	Gender Mainstreaming Learning Manual This Information Pack is intended for use both as a basic resource on gender mainstreaming for the interested reader or for use in a training setting. It has been developed to reflect UNDP’s needs in particular, especially those of gender focal points in UNDP country offices, but we hope that it will have wider utility. It has been designed to be readily adaptable to different needs. Overview Glossary Entry Points Gender Analysis Gender Mainstreaming Process Skills and Advocacy Information Communication and Knowledge Sharing Strategy Development
	Transforming the Mainstream: Gender in UNDP (PDF) This publication sets out key issues in gender mainstreaming, learning from the efforts of UNDP and its partners ingovernment and civil society organizations, bilateral and multilateral agencies.
	Gender Mainstreaming in Practice (PDF) This publication integrates a gender perspective into the analysis of work, home, and public life in order to improve policy-making and programming. The toolkit targets public policy and development practitioners with varying levels of experience in this area; it also serves as a useful resource for NGOs and advocacy groups, students, project staff, gender specialists, and consultants.
	How to Prepare A Gender Strategy For A Country Office This Manual’s aim is to provide a useful, easy-to handle guide for preparing and implementing a Gender Strategy by a UNDP country office. This manual is for: Gender Focal Points (GFPs) in the Country Offices Other staff directly involved in gender mainstreaming (GM) in UNDP Other development organizations committed to gender equity