Women's Empowerment

Equality between women and men

Women in El Salvador.

UNDP promotes equality through 'gender mainstreaming.' The organization's corporate strategy is to integrate women's empowerment and equality into the organization's core business. The strategy calls for gender mainstreaming to become everyone's job – not the responsibility of a small number of specialists.

What is 'gender mainstreaming?'

'Gender mainstreaming' was defined by the United Nations Economic and Social Council in 1997 as 'a strategy for making women's as well as men’s concerns and experiences an integral dimension of...the policies and programmes in all political, economic and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated.'

Fact Sheets

Click on the links below to download fact sheets (PDF format) about gender mainstreaming in:

Biodiversity for Development
Crisis Prevention and Recovery
Electoral Assistance
Gender-Sensitive Budgeting
HIV/AIDS
ICT for Development
Parliamentary Development
Sustainable Energy Sources
Water Governance