Implementing Partners: Federal Ministry of Women‘s Development & German Technical Cooperation  (GTZ)

Project Duration:      July 2005  - December 2009

Project Partners: Selected sector ministries, Provincial Women Development Departments (WDDs), Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)

Project Personnel: 2 international & 3 national Experts, 2 admin & finance, 2 learning & coordination

Target groups: Women and men

Project Goal & Approach

In appreciation of the government’s national and international commitments on gender equality, the GTZ Capacity Building Project seeks to support MoWD and the Provincial Women Development Directorates in mainstreaming the gender approach into the government’s policies and programme in the priority areas of the National Plan of Action (NPA) and the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP).   

Expected impact of the project is that the Ministry of Women’s Development,  selected Federal Ministries and the Provincial Women’s Development Departments have a better understanding of Gender and Gender Mainstreaming  and  thus improve their overall institutional and technical performance for the benefit of girls and women in Pakistan

 Project Components

Given the Project approach, two intertwined Project components of Policy Advice (PA) and Human Resource Development (HRD) focuses on strengthening the institutional performance of MoWD, integrating gender aspects into selected sector policies and enhancing the related staff capabilities in response to identified gender capacity gaps. GTZ CB-MoWD Project, with the technical expertise of its international and national staff, provides strategic support to MoWD in line with the agreed upon planning and implementation framework.

Key Initiatives

• Human resource support in building adequate gender human resource within the MOWD & its projects (GRAP, CEDAW, Women Centres), WDDs and a few line ministries through 11 long-term certificate courses & learning exposures to support Ministry of Women Development in systematically strengthening staff capacities in gender equality mainstreaming processes
   

• Knowledge management support in establishing MoWD learning & communication centre, working on modernisation of library services.  Another step forward towards knowledge management is the initiation of the MoWD Alumni Network to capitalize on the trained community to deepen their gender knowledge and promote the practice for gender equality institutional change. Key features of the Alumni network include Gender Dialogue Forums, Mentoring support, Newsletter and Alumni Web portal.
   

• Institutional strengthening support to MoWD in development of a proposal on Additional Staff and organisational realignment
   

• Gender policy analysis support through engagement of trained staff in practice sessions focusing on Macroeconomic Frameworks& expert guidance on gender screening of Youth Policy, Employment Policy and furnishing of recommendations for Trade Policy & indicators for PRSP-II
   

• Gender policy & project analysis support by developing generic & sector specific gender screening policy & project tools (work in progress)
    

• Project review support in evaluation of 9 Women Centres of MoWD & overview of Microfinance Practices
   

• Research & situation analysis support in analysing potential of WDDs,  Gender Development Sections (GRAP), Women Study Centres and District Resource Centres
   

• Organisational development support to operationalise GRAP through strategic input in planning & implementation processes
   

• Technical advice & support in CEDAW reporting process for 2007 with continued input on strengthening the reporting process in cooperation with UNIFEM
   

• Technical assistance to the Planning Commission in organising the Roundtable Conference “Gender Mainstreaming through Legal Reforms” with recommendations taken up by the Government of Pakistan
   

• Legal expert support in reviewing and drafting legislation under consideration concerning domestic violence (protection & prevention) Act 2008, women’s legal access to assets & resources
   

• Gender mentoring support to alumni members in helping them translate the gender learning into organisational practices & institutional change process.