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Strengthening and Institutionalizing Gender Mainstreaming within UNDP Bahrain

 

UNDP Bahrain is committed to achieving the goal of gender equality and women empowerment through mainstreaming gender in both its management practices and across its core programme practices with the involvement of UNCT. In accordance with this mission and policy, the present project is intended to strengthen Bahrain CO and UNCT to better achieve and respond to gender mainstreaming through the following: 1) Enhance skills, knowledge and build the capacity of UNDP and UNCT staff to better coordinate gender mainstreaming, gender mapping, target setting and advocacy, and 2) Adopt integrated approaches to gender mainstreaming under the upcoming CPO and CCA by designing a gender mainstreaming strategy to be applied in all UNDP CO programming, as well as by UNCT members and national counterparts.

 

Expected Results:

  i.

Develop a Gender Analysis of management and country programme to achieve better understanding of common CO gender practices in order to better plan for future change

    a

Background analysis of program, projects and office: meeting with programme, operations and project staff

    b Implementation of analysis recommendations
  ii.

Strengthen the skills, knowledge and capacity of UNDP and UNCT to better address both specific in-house and broad national gender issues, policies, and strategies. Training programmes organized for UNDP and UNCT staff and National project Directors on Gender Mainstreaming and Women Rights

    a

Recruit National/international Consultant on Gender Mainstreaming, Women’s Rights and engendering project and programme management cycle

    b Prepare training material
    c Organize workshops for all CO staff and key UNCT staff with the following topics:
      • Introduction to Gender
• Engendering Programme and Operations
• Gender sensitive planning
• Gender measurement and monitoring
• Gender impact assessment
  iii.

Prepare Gender Mainstreaming Strategy and Action Plan. Construct a gender strategy which aims at institutionalizing gender mainstreaming in the country office to better plan for future programmes and operation activities

    a Recruit National/International consultant
    b Organize meeting with UNCT
    c Organize meeting with national counterparts
    d Finalize strategy
    e Strategy presented to CO staff for comment
    f Organize Workshop with UNCT to share and disseminate the findings
  Financial Summary:
 
Total Budget: USD 50,000
Delivery 2007: USD 33,255.60
 
  Outputs and Achievements:
  2007:
 
i.

Two consultants were recruited to conduct a Gender Audit analyzing CO gender practices as used in the background analysis of program, projects and office work.

ii.

Training on gender mainstreaming, women’s rights and engendering the project and programme cycle. Training packs were prepared.

iii.

A four-day workshop was conducted for all UNCT staff as well as UNDP Project Directors covering: Introduction to Gender, Engendering Programme and Operations, Gender sensitive planning , Gender measurement and monitoring Gender impact assessment and Gender sensitive budgeting.

iv.

A Gender Mainstreaming Strategy and Action Plan were prepared by the two consultants which aim at institutionalizing gender mainstreaming in the UN programmes.

 
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