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The Gender
Based Governance Systems (GBG) project builds upon the
lessons learnt from the Gender Mainstreaming in the
Planning and Development (GMP&D) and the Women’s
Political School (WPS) projects of UNDP’s Gender Support
Programme (GSP). WPS focused on women councilors’
capacity enhancement and was intended to
institutionalize gender based governance through
appropriate capacity enhancement of women councilors and
relevant training institutions. Gender Mainstreaming has
been successful in capacity building of government
officers and as a result they have been advocating for
gender reforms in the planning process. The
implementation experience of these two projects points
to the necessity of putting in place an innovative
implementation mechanism, benefiting from the previous
experience of working with reform champions.
Gender
based governance systems is designed as a sustainable,
long-term initiative to institutionalize the process of
enabling and empowering local representatives
particularly women to raise their issues and concerns in
policy agenda. GBG addresses capacity building in a
holistic manner including bureaucracy and the political
leadership at all three tiers of governance. In doing
so, it down streams the capacity building on gendered
planning from the provincial to the district, tehsil and
union council level, to complement the trainings
undertaken of local politicians who deal with the local
administration on a daily basis. Second, it up streams
the earlier effort of training federal government staff
by applying their skills in development of an
accountability framework anchored in the P&D to monitor
policy implementation compliance with Strategic Gender
Frameworks.
The
overall aim of this project is to promote women’s access
to the economic, political and social empowerment, at
the national, provincial and district level. In view of
this, key objectives are:
a. Empowered
and capacitated current and potential duty bearers
particularly women at federal, provincial and district
levels own and promote devolved gender based governance
b. Strengthened
civil service training institutions contributing to
civil service reforms and gender based governance
c.
Credible sustainable
monitoring systems for gender based governance
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