Gender within Governance for Empowerment Summary of Gender Status within the SNV East and Southern...

Gender within Governance for Empowerment

Summary of Gender Status within the

SNV East and Southern Africa Region

Regional Seminar on Governance for

Empowerment, Kenya, November 2007

Dr Shirley Randell AM

Why Gender?

• Gender equality and women’s empowerment is Goal 3 of the MDGs and is intricately linked with Goal 1: Poverty reduction and Goal 2: Gender parity in education

• All ESA countries have ratified CEDAW and other international and African conventions supporting gender equality

• The Rights of Women in Africa is a Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’ Rights signed by all ESA countries

GIE inter-regional meeting - 19 November 2007

Why Gender?

• Gender equality is a key objective of NEPAD

• Women’s inadequate control over livelihood assets such as land, labour, skills and information networks, technology, and financial capital remains one of the root causes of poverty.

• Attaining gender parity in all aspects of the country’s development remains a major challenge in all ESA countries


Related gender targets innational poverty reduction strategies

• Ethiopia: Gender is a crosscutting issue in the

Plan for Accelerated and Sustainable

Development to End Poverty (PASDEP): 2005/6-

2009/2010• Kenya: The Ministry of Gender, Sports, Culture

and Social services (MGSCSS) programmes focus

on empowering women and dismantling gender-

based forms of exclusion. • Mozambique: In the latest PRSP (PARPA II),

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• Rwanda: Gender is a crosscutting issue in the

EDPRS, which features gender targets• Sudan: The national PRSP: is specifically

focusing on targeting the MDGs, which are

gender specific and aims to minimize gender

disparity• Tanzania: The national PRSP is specifically

focusing on targeting the MDGs, which are

gender specific and aims to minimize gender

disparityGIE inter-regional meeting - 19 November 2007


• Uganda has a range of gender targets in its

PRSP

• Zambia’s Poverty Reduction Strategies give

attention to cross cutting gender into all

development sectors

• Zimbabwe’s national policies and programs

target gender equity


Other relevant country programs related to gender

• Ethiopia: National Action Plan on Gender;

Women’s Development and Change Package ;• Kenya: Kenya’s vision 2030 has three pillars,

one of which is in the social sector which

includes among other targets, gender, youth

and vulnerable groups• Mozambique: Ministry of Women and Social

Action; National Council for Women’s Promotion



• Rwanda: Vision 2020 has gender equality as one

of its pillars; National Gender Policy; National

Women’s Employment Strategy; National

Education for Girls Policy; One Cow per Poor

Household Program• Sudan: Promotion of women’s participation in

public life and increase in their representation in

the legislative and executive organs • Tanzania: Poverty assessments (data collection &

availability) & consultation processesGIE inter-regional meeting - 19 November 2007


• Uganda: Poverty Eradication Action Plan

recognizes gender equality as one of the cross

cutting themes in all the pillars; Plan for

Modernization of Agriculture; Education Sector

Investment Plan; National Action Plan for

Women; National Gender Policy;

Competitiveness and investment climate

strategy; National Education for Girls Policy;

The Water Sector Investment Plan



• Zambia; The national approach to gender is to

mainstream it in all development sectors

• Zimbabwe: There are challenges associated

with implementation of programs and

sustaining program gains largely due to

underlying factors inherent in most societies

steeped in patriarchy


Relevant actors in the sector and SNV’s relationship to them

• Government offices- MWA, Regional Women Affairs

Bureaus, Gender desks in Sector Ministries and

Bureaus • Local (NGOs) and community-based organisations

(CBOs)- Women Lawyers Associations, Women’s

Self-help Associations, FAWE, Media Women’s

Associations, Networks for Women’s Associations,

Christian Relief and Development and other

religious associations, women’s associations at

national, district and local levels GIE inter-regional meeting - 19 November 2007

Relevant actors in the sector and SNV’s relationship to them

• Bi-lateral and multilateral organizations,

International NGOS and Embassies- UNDP,

UNIFEM, UNICEF, EKN, Irish Embassy, NORAD,

DFID, ActionAid, ECA, Panos, British Council • The legislative assemblies, women

parliamentarians, Ministry of Legal Affairs and

constitutional development• SNV currently works with some of these actors as

partners and/or clients


Involvement of EKN

• Ethiopia: According to the Multi-annual Strategic

Plan: 2006-08, EKN takes up gender as a CCI with

the main focus on women’s empowerment. • Kenya: In the area of gender, EKN contributes to

the basket funds of the gender and governance

programme aimed at engendering the political

processes through support to key CSOs• Mozambique: EKN has a thematic officer for

Gender and HIV/AIDS


Involvement of EKN

• Rwanda: EKN has supported a program for

mainstreaming gender into DDPs and CBOs, the

establishment of gender advisers at district level,

and is now working with other donors through

Joint Financing Agreements in core GoR

programs with a gender focus• Sudan: EKN programmes have an emphasis on

activities closer to Khartoum, involved early on in

a National Women’s Peace Network, and joint

donor offices


Involvement of EKN

• Tanzania: Capacity Building for Local Governance

Actors in districts, which cover gender dimensions

of development; among other donors contributing

to basket funding and in the Tanzania Joint

Assistance Strategy; gender department of the

embassy in Dar Es Salaam; important role in the

Gender Mainstreaming Working Group in the PRSP

which was funded and hosted by EKN; gender

officer in the embassy has sought direct working

relationship with SNV.


Involvement of EKN

• Uganda: a member of the policy working group

on gender and the PEAP review, and supporting

teacher accommodation• Zambia: with other donors supports effective

coordination of the HIV/Aids multisectoral

response through the Joint Financing Agreement

(JFA) with the UK, Irish AID, Sweden and Norway• Zimbabwe: limited role alongside its limited

participation in program development outside the

humanitarian sector


Particular niche or added value of SNV• Build the organizational and institutional capacity of

clients and local capacity builders (LCBs) in gender

mainstreaming • Facilitate establishment and strengthening of

networks and joint action• Strengthen capacity of strategic clients on lobby and

advocacy • Expatriate and national gender advisors with gender

expertise and pool of governance advisers with

generic gender knowledge contribute to Knowledge

Development, Brokering, and Networking


Particular niche or added value of SNV

• Instrumental in linking clients/constellations

within a sector to gender based organizations for

sustainability of the gender mainstreaming and

gender knowledge within the districts and

sectors• Gender is critical for achieving sustainability and

success in our work, including PIE and BASE and

all PIE and BASE advisers have had training in

and demonstrate a commitment to gender when

working in their impact areas .


Particular niche or added value of SNV• Each impact area has a focal point for gender

and a gender working group has been

established and is functional• Expertise in gender policy analysis and gender

tools has contributed in Knowledge Brokering

and Networking (KBN) at national policy level• Writing expertise has supported gender

publications


Particular niche or added value of SNV• SNV is facilitating the National Pool of Gender Experts

in collaboration with Canadian Cooperation.• SNV can play a catalyst role to ensure gender policy is

understood and implemented, and channel problems

and challenges to policy makers.• SNV has wide range of contacts at all levels, GOSS,

states, counties and even below, and across all

actors, UN, INGOs, LNGOs, CBOs and private sectors

so can link people to gender issues


Particular niche or added value of SNV• Our main niche in this is mainly the ability to bring

actors in the sector together for effective sharing

and exchange. Now with the EKN coming on board,

especially for gender interventions, we hope to

broaden our approaches and perspectives at

national level and with a broad coverage of actors. • The emerging ESA region gender strategy is also

encouraging. We hope to bring in our contribution

to the region to make gender a tangible reality.

(Tanzania)


Particular niche or added value of SNV• Provide advisory services, KDBN through LCBs to ensure that:

• Client organization’s services are sensitive to the needs of women and

PLWHA through support to gender analyses, production of gender

disaggregated data and development of gender mainstreaming capacities

through tools development and sharing of gender approaches

• Supporting prioritization of gender and HIV/Aids interventions in budgeting,

planning, policy formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation at

both macro and meso levels through work with national based institutions

and provincial and district based organizations

• Support resource mobilization for HIV/Aids and Gender mainstreaming

among client organizations (Zambia)


Particular niche or added value of SNV• SNV's work in gender has focused on research and analysis

of issues in partnership with other organizations as well as

OD support. • The SNV niche is inadequately developed beyond focusing

on advancing relevant programs strategies in DRHA and

MAP recognizing the differential ‘impacts on socio-political

and economic governance on men and women. Our

program strategies and activities speak to attempts at

articulating issues of gender parity and equity although

without a specific gender program practice, clients or stand-

alone activities (Zimbabwe)


Specific challenges

Ethiopia• Weak networking among actors• Weak institutional capacity of MWA machineries

and NGOs working on gender • Weak, low awareness and institutional setups

among the law-enforcing bodies to implement the

legal rights of women • Extremely low public awareness on gender issues• Low experience and expertise in gender

mainstreaming among government officers


Specific challengesMozambique• In BASE it is easy. In PIE it is more difficult. Gender

dynamics in agriculture are based on kind of social

system in which community is located. The decision-

making process tends to always include men, and it is

important to note that there is a tendency for men to

become the main managers of the household, own

and have access to the land, etc. • Challenge to include women in management,

production, processing and marketing of agricultural

activities


Specific challengesRwanda• Cultural beliefs, values and customs• Ensuring that each impact area includes the gender dimension of

governance for empowerment.• Selection of impact indicators for achieving results in good

governance from a gender perspective• Ensuring all PIE and BASE case studies include gender perspectives• Dealing with confusion about the relationship of women’s

empowerment and gender equality• The close relationship between gender and HIV/Aids• Various levels of gender awareness and gender policy and analysis

skills of SNV advisors


Specific challengesSudan• Inadequate implementation of gender issues at all levels

of government but no commitment to the establishment

and not a priority of many women who are more focused

on survival and recovery• Impact of traditional cultures weakens public good will and

there is extremely low awareness • Institutional set up for legal rights of women is very weak

as law enforcing bodies are still emerging at all levels.• Low level of awareness within government by officials on

gender issues and capacity to address gender disparity is

weak.


Specific challengesTanzania• Incorporating gender into poverty reduction

processes • The role of a woman in striking the balance for

practical equality and equity part possible is still a far

off reality. • Making gender a reality in the north given patriarchal

elements and long rooted culture of male dominance• Poverty of the women both material well being and

education – awareness levels


Specific challengesUganda• Gender is still not prioritized by actors• Inadequate disaggregation of data• Allocated funds inadequate.• Apathy in the private sector and water sector• Ensuring that impact areas includes gender dimension of

governance for empowerment.• Selection of impact indicators for achieving results in good

govern. with gender perspective• Ensuring all PIE and BASE case studies include gender

perspectives• Confusion about the relations of WE and GE• The close relations between gender/ HIV/Aids


Specific challengesZambia• Work with AIDS Service organisations and institutions at

national, provincial and districts levels to improve livelihoods

of PLWHA. • AS and KDBN through LCBs to ensure :• Client organization’s services are sensitive to the needs of

women and PLWHA• Prioritize gender and HIV/Aids interventions in budgeting,

planning, policy formulation, implementation, monitoring • Evaluation at both macro and meso levels. • No clear targets in the National HIV and AIDS strategic

frameworks or in the Fifth National Development Plan 2006-

2010 on gender


Specific challengesZimbabwe• We observe that gender issues have been generally

overwhelmed by the economic and socio-political

crisis in the country. Analyses and strategies to

deal with the crisis do not directly engage with

gender issues. In fact some of the violence against

women has occurred outside the home and in

political parties with limited redress (within and

around parties). Political commitment might be

there but there is no practical commitment from

macro (governmental) to micro (household).


Reasons for geographical choices

• Strategic nature of the issue (crosscutting) makes

it important to integrate gender in the impact

areas across all operational areas of SNV• Interventions in gender will involve working with

national, district and sector based partners and

clients across ESA countriesClients/client

constellations working with• GoR has recently expressed a preference for

working closely with the poorest sectors in each of

the 30 districts.


Clients/client constellations

• GOs, NGOs, CSOs, FBOs and private sector in

constellations within sectors, within districts• National level partners and clients for advocacy

for policy change• Regional authorities that bring together a

number of districts as a constellation of clients. • Meso level LCBs for gender equality and

women’s empowerment • District authorities to improve service delivery


Clients/client constellations• Gender specialized organizations at national,

regional/district levels, institutions, CSOs and FBOs that

have strong gender departments• Institutions and NGOs working in the value chains with

private sector development institutions, such as

CAPMER and PSF and LCBs• Work with MINEDUC to support girl child education in

partnership with LCBs such as FAWE and RAUW. • Work with UNICEF and LCBs in WaSH, etc

•


Strategic partners

• MWA, MIGEPROF for advocacy, policy influence and

implementation• Government ministries for policy influence and

service delivery at district/community level • EKN & other embassies for funding, policy

influence


Strategic partners

• UN agencies - UNICEF, UNDP, UNIFEM NORAD

for funding, advocacy, policy influence• Bilateral agencies, e.g. DFID, Canadian

Corporation• International NGOs, e.g. GTZ, Oxfam• Districts in service delivery• Associations – National Honey Council, NGOCC


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