Minimum Standards for Mainstreaming Gender Equality Gender Breakfast

Minimum Standards for Mainstreaming Gender Equality Gender Breakfast Group February 19, 2019 Paula Uniacke Program Officer Women’s Empowerment & Gender Equality Program

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Adopt and apply a policy that institutionalizes a commitment to gender equality in operations and programs. Ideally a gender policy sets guiding principles for mainstreaming gender equality objectives and accountability measures throughout an organization’s operations and programs.

Gender training at The Asia Foundation’s Lao PDR office Promote a shared commitment to gender equality by ensuring staff have the proper understanding, skills and support. Include gender equality in job descriptions, performance evaluations and a focus within hiring, professional development plans; gender trainings

Perform gender analyses for every project, engaging a diverse range of stakeholders and using findings to inform partnerships, design, and implementation.

Allocate organizational and program budget resources to meet gender mainstreaming and capacity building needs. Ex: personnel, training, addressing safety, gender analysis.

Collect, analyze, and use sex- and agedisaggregated data for all programs and organizational data collection processes. 2018 Afghan Survey, The Asia Foundation

Develop and track specific indicators to measure progress toward gender equality.

Perform risk assessments and develop corresponding mitigation and response strategies.

Establish accountability mechanisms to monitor the status of gender equality within organizational practices and programming, such as a gender audit.

Endorsing the Minimum Standards Publicly express institutional commitment to gender equality Recognize how already meeting Standards Accountability…without requirements or compliance mechanisms Flexible implementation Donor expectations Joining peers in Community of Practice • Improve our practices and work • • •

Meeting the Minimum Standards at TAF Gender audit (Standard 8) Internal Community of Practice across 20 offices (Standard 2) State of the Art Gender Equality Workshop (Standards 2, 3, & 7) Office gender trainings (Standards 2, 3, 5, 6, & 7) Gender mainstreaming indicators in Annual Results Report (Standards 6 & 8) • Gender equality proposal checklist (Standards 3 & 4) • • •

Gender Breakfast Group February 19, 2019