Strategic objective H.2.
Integrate gender perspectives in legislation, public policies,
programmes and
projects
Actions to be taken
- By Governments:
- Seek to ensure that before policy decisions are taken, an
analysis
of their impact on women and men, respectively, is carried
out;
- Regularly review national policies, programmes and projects, as
well
as their implementation, evaluating the impact of
employment and
income policies in order to guarantee that women are
direct
beneficiaries of development and that their full
contribution to
development, both remunerated and unremunerated, is
considered in
economic policy and planning;
- Promote national strategies and aims on equality between women
and
men in order to eliminate obstacles to the exercise of
women's
rights and eradicate all forms of discrimination against
women;
- Work with members of legislative bodies, as appropriate, to
promote
a gender perspective in all legislation and policies;
- Give all ministries the mandate to review policies and
programmes
from a gender perspective and in the light of the Platform
for
Action; locate the responsibility for the implementation
of that
mandate at the highest possible level; establish and/or
strengthen
an inter-ministerial coordination structure to carry out
this
mandate, to monitor progress and to network with relevant
machineries.
- By national machinery:
- Facilitate the formulation and implementation of government
policies
on equality between women and men, develop appropriate
strategies
and methodologies, and promote coordination and
cooperation within
the central Government in order to ensure mainstreaming of
a gender
perspective in all policy-making processes;
- Promote and establish cooperative relationships with relevant
branches of government, centres for women's studies and
research,
academic and educational institutions, the private sector,
the
media, non-governmental organizations, especially women's
organizations, and all other actors of civil society;
- Undertake activities focusing on legal reform with regard,
inter alia, to the family, conditions of employment,
social
security, income tax, equal opportunity in education,
positive
measures to promote the advancement of women, and the
perception of
attitudes and a culture favourable to equality, as well as
promote a
gender perspective in legal policy and programming
reforms;
- Promote the increased participation of women as both active
agents
and beneficiaries of the development process, which would
result in
an improvement in the quality of life for all;
- Establish direct links with national, regional and
international
bodies dealing with the advancement of women;
- Provide training and advisory assistance to government agencies
in
order to integrate a gender perspective in their policies
and
programmes.
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Strategic objective H.3.
Generate and disseminate gender-disaggregated data and information
for planning
and evaluation
Actions to be taken
- By national, regional and international statistical services
and
relevant governmental and United Nations agencies, in cooperation
with
research and documentation organizations, in their respective areas
of
responsibility:
- Ensure that statistics related to individuals are collected,
compiled, analysed and presented by sex and age and
reflect
problems, issues and questions related to women and men in
society;
- Collect, compile, analyse and present on a regular basis data
disaggregated by age, sex, socio-economic and other
relevant
indicators, including number of dependants, for
utilization in
policy and programme planning and implementation;
- Involve centres for women's studies and research organizations
in
developing and testing appropriate indicators and research
methodologies to strengthen gender analysis, as well as in
monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the goals
of the
Platform for Action;
- Designate or appoint staff to strengthen gender-statistics
programmes and ensure coordination, monitoring and linkage
to all
fields of statistical work, and prepare output that
integrates
statistics from the various subject areas;
- Improve data collection on the full contribution of women and
men to
the economy, including their participation in the informal
sector(s);
- Develop a more comprehensive knowledge of all forms of work and
employment by:
- Improving data collection on the unremunerated work which is
already included in the United Nations System of
National
Accounts, such as in agriculture, particularly
subsistence
agriculture, and other types of non-market
production
activities;
- Improving measurements that at present underestimate women's
unemployment and underemployment in the labour
market;
- Developing methods, in the appropriate forums, for assessing
the value, in quantitative terms, of unremunerated
work that is
outside national accounts, such as caring for
dependants and
preparing food, for possible reflection in satellite
or other
official accounts that may be produced separately
from but are
consistent with core national accounts, with a view
to
recognizing the economic contribution of women and
making
visible the unequal distribution of remunerated and
unremunerated work between women and men;
- Develop an international classification of activities for
time-use
statistics that is sensitive to the differences between
women and
men in remunerated and unremunerated work, and collect
data
disaggregated by sex. At the national level, subject to
national
constraints:
- Conduct regular time-use studies to measure, in quantitative
terms, unremunerated work, including recording those
activities
that are performed simultaneously with remunerated
or other
unremunerated activities;
- Measure, in quantitative terms, unremunerated work that is
outside national accounts, work to improve methods
to assess its value, and accurately reflect its value in satellite
or other official
accounts which are separate from, but consistent
with core
national accounts;
- Improve concepts and methods of data collection on the
measurement
of poverty among women and men, including their access to
resources;
- Strengthen vital statistical systems and incorporate gender
analysis
into publications and research; give priority to gender
differences
in research design and in data collection and analysis in
order to
improve data on morbidity; and improve data collection on
access to
health services, including access to comprehensive sexual
and
reproductive health services, maternal care and family
planning,
with special priority for adolescent mothers and for elder
care;
- Develop improved gender-disaggregated and age-specific data on
the
victims and perpetrators of all forms of violence against
women,
such as domestic violence, sexual harassment, rape, incest
and
sexual abuse, and trafficking in women and girls, as well
as on
violence by agents of the State;
- Improve concepts and methods of data collection on the
participation
of women and men with disabilities, including their access
to
resources.
- By Governments:
- Ensure the regular production of a statistical publication on
gender
that presents and interprets topical data on women and men
in a form
suitable for a wide range of non-technical users;
- Ensure that producers and users of statistics in each country
regularly review the adequacy of the official statistical
system and
its coverage of gender issues, and prepare a plan for
needed
improvements, where necessary;
- Develop and encourage the development of quantitative and
qualitative studies by research organizations, trade
unions,
employers, the private sector and non-governmental
organizations on
the sharing of power and influence in society, including
the number
of women and men in senior decision-making positions in
both the
public and private sectors;
- Use more gender-sensitive data in the formulation of policy and
implementation of programmes and projects.
- By the United Nations:
- Promote the development of methods to find better ways to
collect,
collate and analyse data that may relate to the human
rights of
women, including violence against women, for use by all
relevant
United Nations bodies;
- Promote the further development of statistical methods to
improve
data that relate to women in economic, social, cultural
and
political development;
- Prepare a new issue of The World's Women at regular five-year
intervals and distribute it widely;
- Assist countries, upon request, in the development of gender
policies and programmes;
- Ensure that the relevant reports, data and publications of the
Statistical Division of the United Nations Secretariat and
the
International Research and Training Institute for the
Advancement of
Women on progress at the national and international levels
are
transmitted to the Commission on the Status of Women in a
regular
and coordinated fashion.
- By multilateral development institutions and bilateral donors:
- Encourage and support the development of national capacity
in
developing countries and in countries with economies in
transition
by providing resources and technical assistance so that
countries
can fully measure the work done by women and men,
including both
remunerated and unremunerated work, and, where
appropriate, use
satellite or other official accounts for unremunerated
work.
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