Transcription of GENDER MAINSTREAMING CONCEPTS, DEFINITIONS, PROCESS
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GENDER MAINSTREAMING : CONCEPTS, DEFINITIONS, PROCESS Commonwealth of the Bahamas National GENDER Equality Policy Training Workshop, September 12, 2012 Facilitators: Barbara Bailey, PhD & June Ann Castello, 1 GENDER & DEVELOPMENT (GAD) With the advent of GAD, came the recognition of the importance of GENDER analysis as a tool for understanding the unique needs of men and women in development policies, programmes and strategies and the need for conducting GENDER analyses in a systematic way. As a result the PROCESS of GENDER MAINSTREAMING was developed. 2 GENDER MAINSTREAMING Mandate 3 GMS: GLOBAL MANDATE MAINSTREAMING was clearly established as the global strategy for promoting GENDER equality through the Platform for Action at the United Nations 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. 4 BEIJING PLATFORM FOR ACTION, 1995.
recognition of the importance of gender analysis as a tool for understanding the unique needs of men and women in ... Figure 1 gives short definitions of the four closely interlinked concepts of gender, gender analysis, gender mainstreaming and gender-sensitive indicators. ... recognizing the diversity of different groups of women and
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