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What is the rationale for mainstreaming gender?

      

Discuss the rationale for mainstreaming gender.

  

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Maurice
(i) It is a commitment to ensure concerns and experiences of both women and men are
integral to the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all legislation
policies and programmes.

(ii) It concerns the staffing, procedures, programmes and culture of development
Organizations.

(iii) Recognizes gender equality as critical to the achievement of other development goals
including poverty reduction.

(iv) Recognition that development policies impact female and male differently hence the
need to ensure that the needs of both are taken on board during policy development,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation.

(v) The need of collective process of articulating a shared vision of sustainable human
development and translating it into reality (through policy, programmes and
budgets)hence the need for the effective participation of both women and men.

(vi) Recognition need for a combined strategy to address women empowerment issues
including selected focus of channelling assistance to women, as a target group, to a
more mainstreaming approach of promoting gender equality as a development goal.
maurice.mutuku answered the question on April 24, 2019 at 05:50


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