Transcript Checklist for mainstreaming gender

Tools for Mainstreaming Gender
Checklist for
mainstreaming gender as
a cross-cutting issue in
the EDPRS
Seminar on Moving to Gender-Based Analysis in
Constructing Policy in Rwanda, September 2006
Dr Shirley Randell AM
Gender Subcommittee
• Parliament - FFRP
• Ministries – MIGEPROF, MINEDUC
• Government agencies – NIS, NWC,
NEPAD
• Development partners – UNFEM, UNDP,
UNFPA, UNICEF, DFID, Canadian
Corporation
• NGOs – SNV, RWLC, RAUW, WWP,
African Rights, Profemmes
• Academic institutions – KIST, KHI, KIE
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Why Gender is a Cross Cutting Issue
• The achievement of the Government’s
Vision 2020 and all the MDGs depends
on the achievement of gender equality
and women’s empowerment.
• The country needs the contribution of all
its people, men and women, for
economic growth and poverty reduction
• The EDPRS process has identified gender
as a major cross-cutting issue, affecting
all SWGs
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Gender Goal
By 2020, Rwandan women and
men, girls and boys will have
achieved equity of
- voice,
- participation and
- access
in every area of economic
growth and poverty reduction
represented in national policy
and law.
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Purpose
By 2012, gender equality can
be demonstrated, measured
and verified using gender
disaggregated national data
to show that the country is
on track to achieving:
• Gender equality in halving the
proportion of people living below the
poverty line by 2015
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• Gender equality in reduced
income disparity (Gini coefficient,
shares of the poorest quintile in
national consumption)
• Gender equality in increased GDP
per capita US$
• Gender equality within the increased
average GDP growth rate (to 8%)
• Gender equality in progress towards
the MDGs
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Five major areas
• Gender-disaggregated data collection
and reporting
• Reproductive health rights
• Access to business and services
• Law and policy on legal, social, economic
opportunities and physical protection
• Educational achievement
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All sectors involved
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1 Progress towards achieving
gender equity
• In Sectoral policies and their implementation,
and in District plans and their implementation
- demonstrated by every Sector/ District in
their returns to the EDPRS Annual Progress
Review (APR).
• Data and analysis to be presented in an annual
composite national assessment of progress :
> in the EDPRS APR,
> in the Joint Budget Support Review
> in the Minister of Finance’s presentation of
the budget to Parliament.
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Why?
The Government of Rwanda is
already committed to:
• Constitution: Gender equality
• Vision 2020: Gender equality
• MDG 3: Gender equality and
women’s empowerment
• Convention on the Elimination of
Discrimination Against Women
(CEDAW):
National gender information
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Suggested Outputs
• NIS: Gender-disaggregated data
contained in all national surveys
and reports by the National
Institute of Statistics
• Parliament/MIGEPROF: A new
annual report: “Progress Towards
Achieving Rwanda’s Commitment
to its Women Citizens”.
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Suggested Outputs
(cont)
• MIGEPROF or Gender Observatoire:
resourced to collect, analyse and
present national gender equity
progress
• All Sectors/ Districts: to establish
gender-disaggregated data
collections in their information
systems for annual planning
processes and annual reporting.
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Suggested Outputs
(cont)
• NEPAD: to utilise this data in
reporting
• MINECOFIN: to ensure genderdisaggregated budget planning
and execution data is available
from all Sectors/ Districts.
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Suggested Outputs
(cont)
• MINECOFIN: Terms of Reference/
instructions for APR to include
gender in each Sectoral chapter
and a gender summary page.
• MINECOFIN: Gender discussion to
be scheduled for one of the annual
Joint Budget Support Review
meetings.
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2 Women enabled to exercise
their reproductive health rights
• A reduction in the average
number of children per woman
from 6 to 5 by 2012 and to 4 by
2020.
• A significantly increased
contraceptive prevalence rate
• A significant drop in the number
of maternal deaths
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2 Women enabled to exercise
their reproductive health rights
(cont)
• A higher average age at which
women have their first baby
• Increased levels of female
participation in the labour
market, including formal sector
employment
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Why?
The Government of Rwanda is
already committed to improving
women’s health:
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MDG 4: Reduce child mortality
MDG 5: Improve maternal health
Reproductive Health Policy
CEDAW
International Conference on Population
and Development (ICPD) Plan of
Action
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Suggested Outputs
• MINISANTE: Increase the range of, and
access to family planning methods
- contraceptive prevalence rate increased
from 10.3% to over 50% in 2020
• MINEDUC: Maintain equal numbers of girls
and boys in education
– primary completion of 95% by 2012
100% by 2015
- enrolment in lower secondary
52% by 2012
62% by 2015
• MIFOTRA: Reduce rate of youth
unemployment/ underemployment by ½ within
5 years
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Suggested Outputs
(cont)
• MIFOTRA: Strategies for
female participation in formal
employment and the labour
market agreed by 2008
• MIFOTRA: Reduce rate of
women’s unemployment/
underemployment by ½
within 5 years
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Suggested Outputs
(cont)
• MINISANTE: Reduce the rate of
maternal mortality from
750/100,000 to 600 in 2010 and
200 in 2020
• MINISANTE: Reduce the rate of
infant mortality from 86/1000 to
80 in 2010 and 50 in 2020
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Suggested Outputs
(cont)
• MINISANTE : Safe delivery and childbirth for women - increase births taking
place with trained attendance from 31%
to over 50% in 2011
• MINISANTE: National Information
campaigns – designed to praise smaller
families, explain contraception, deliver
messages on safe delivery, provide
messages on risks to infant mortality.
• MINALOC/MINEDUC: Increase in
access to safe drinking water and to
sanitation (including toilets in schools)
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3 Range of business and financial
services expanded and differential
levels of gender access addressed
• Social Insurance extended in
coverage (from 4% to 10% of
population with full gender equity) by
2012.
• Social Safety Nets made more
equitable for the most vulnerable
10% of the population by 2012.
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Business and Financial
Services (cont)
• Micro finance gap between men
and women reduced by 75%
by 2012
• Revision of laws & policy to
protect women’s ownership
of land and other property
• Number of women’s start-up
businesses increased by 50%
by 2012
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Why?
The Government of Rwanda is
already committed to:
• MDG 1: Eradicate extreme poverty
and hunger
• MDG 3: Gender equality and
women’s empowerment
• National Social Protection Strategy
• Medium Term Investment Plan
• Land Policy
• Health Policy (Mutuelles)
• Family Code
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Suggested Outputs
• MINALOC: Formal Social
Insurance coverage extended to
over 10% of the population and
equal participation by women and
men by 2012.
• MINECOFIN/BNR: Provision of,
and access to micro-finance
extended to give equality of access
to women and men - 50%
reduction in gap.
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Suggested Outputs
(cont)
• MINECOFIN: Coverage of a Social
Safety Net extended to equitable
levels of support for the most
vulnerable 10% of the population,
with equal access to women
• Private Sector/ New products
identified and brought to the
market to address women’s
concerns for financial services.
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Suggested Outputs
(cont)
• MINIJUST/MINITERE: Laws revised to
grant women protected rights of
ownership for land and other
property, regardless of the status/
type of marriage.
• MINAGRI: Recognise the contribution of
women farmers and increase their
technological skills
• All Sectors: Strategies for sensitisation
and awareness of differential access
and the need for expansion of
business and financial services
identified and implemented
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4 Policy and law on women’s legal,
social, economic opportunities
• By 2011, physical protection is
completed, made effective and fully
monitored on behalf of, and with the
participation of, the mass of rural and
urban women in Rwanda
- in order to set a road map
towards full and unequivocal
gender equity by 2020
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Why?
The Government of Rwanda is already
committed to gender equity in laws and
policies:
• Constitution
• MDG 3: Gender equality and women’s
empowerment
• CEDAW
• Solemn Declaration of Gender Equality in Africa
• Programme of Action: NEPAD Country Review
of Rwanda
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Suggested Outputs
• MINEDUC/MINIJUST: Literacy
and legal literacy campaigns
designed and launched by 2009
• MIGEPROF: Public campaign on
gender-based violence (GBV)
designed and launched by 2008
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Suggested Outputs
(cont)
• MINIJUST/MINADEF: Training
for Police and Security Forces
on countering GBV designed
and launched by 2008
• Investigation into participation /
trafficking into the sex industry
researched and appropriate
policy action taken by 2009
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Suggested Outputs
(cont)
• MINEDUC: Education investigates
and designs measures to
counter gender-based violence
and gender-discrimination in
schools and colleges by 2009
• Parliament/MINALOC: MPs and
Local Government
Representatives are able to
access, analyse and use national
data to identify and implement
gender-based policy initiatives
by 2009
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Suggested Outputs
(cont)
• MINECOFIN: Design of a ‘gender
equity roadmap’ based on
bottom-up consultation
processes agreed and costed by
2012 ready for the 3rd national
PRSP
• All Sectors: support and help civil
society organisations to
increase their capacity to
monitor and advocate for gender
change
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5
Education Achievement
• Girls’ position in educational
achievement is improved
• Young women achieve equity in
completion of tertiary
education and training
• Adult women increase their
functional literacy/education
rates
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Why?
The Government of Rwanda is
already committed to equal
opportunity and achievement in
education:
• MDG 2: Achieve universal primary
education – and other targets
• MDG 3: Gender equality and
women’s empowerment
• Plan of Action: NEPAD
• National Education Policy
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Suggested Outputs
• MINEDUC/MINALOC/MINITERE
: Ensure that the physical
environment (particularly school
sanitation) in schools supports
the continued attendance of
girls and young women by 2010
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Suggested Outputs
(cont)
• MINEDUC/MINALOC/NIS:
Implement quality controls - data measurement
- improvements to the school
curriculum
- improving school management
(including parent teacher
committees) and teacher role
modelling;
- planning for and implementing
a comprehensive gender
equity education policy
made fully operational by 2010
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Suggested Outputs
(cont)
• MINEDUC/MINALOC: Functional adult
literacy/education targets reviewed
and made gender equitable - policy
implemented and budget lines
reviewed
• MINEDUC: Introduce specific equity
measures to increase the
participation of women in tertiary
education and training
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Gender Goal
By 2020, Rwandan women and men,
girls and boys will have achieved
equity of
- voice,
- participation and
- access
to every area of economic growth and
poverty reduction represented in
national policy and law.
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