Gender Mainstreaming and Social Inclusion
25 July 2012
Radhika Regmi
Gender Mainstreaming
• “creating an environment that reflects an understanding of the realities of women’s and men's lives and addresses the issues of the women.”
Gender Mainstreaming
• It is the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in any area and at all levels.
• It is a strategy for making women's as well as men's concerns and experiences an integral dimension in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in all political, economic, social, legal spheres, such that inequality between men and women is not perpetuated.
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• Gender mainstreaming is vital to protect and promote women's and men's right
• One of the important outcomes from the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China in 1995 was international recognition that true gender equality cannot be achieved if women's rights continue to be viewed as a separate question and that a gender perspective should be integrated into all planning, programmes and legislation from their outset.
• It is being mindful of gender considerations in all aspects of Investigation and counselling that is needed.
Are women homogenous entity?
Social Inclusion
What stands for Exclusion?
• Differences and inequality in human capabilities (education, Life chances.....)
• Differences in o representationo participation/voiceo benefit sharingo political avenues, economic, social,
cultural, property rightso access to justice
• Rural and urban differences in access to- market, services, opportunities, information and political influences
What we mean by Social Inclusion?
• Removal of structural and institutional barriers and enactment of incentives to increase the access of diverse individuals and groups to development opportunities (World Bank).
• Seeks to bring structural and institutional reform for equality in all sectors at all levels.
Source: NHDR, 2009
Human poverty expands from income deprivation to capability deprivation into impaired human functioning.
Class matters the most! Because of unequal access productive assets, income and opportunities,
people’s rights to live has been suffered.
Access to basic services by economic class
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Historical Context of Exclusion
• Country Code 1854 (1910 B.S) accorded differential privileges and obligation to each caste groups
• Divided into different caste groups and allocated the tasks they have to perform
• Discriminatory policies, plans, programmes
• Systematic gender discrimination with the start of civilization
How to overcome
• Political commitment
• Behavioral Change
• Analysis of the situation
• Inclusive democracy
• Fundamental shift in governance (Representation, Participation, benefit sharing)
• Balance power in all sectors at all levels
How to overcome
• Rights to all
• Access to resources, opportunities and benefits
• Lobbying and advocacy
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Your role
If you think, you are too small to make an
impact, go and live with Mosquito
An African proverb