Gender equity

Gender Equity Working Group

The group shares information on gender equity work and advocacy events and promotes the use of gender indicators, audits and accountability frameworks and training in these areas.

Working Group co-convenors:

Jo Crawford, International Women's Development Agency (IWDA)

Clare Seddon, World Vision Australia

Social Institutions and Gender Index

The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) is a new tool from the OECD to measure these hidden instances of gender discrimination. This is the first online resource on social institutions and gender inequalities in the developing world. Detailed country profiles explore the situation of women and men in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Central and Southeast Asia.

Guidelines for Gender Sensitive Disaster Management

The Guidelines for Gender Sensitive Disaster Management were developed based on the reports of the survey of women’s human rights violations in the aftermath of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the October 2005 earthquake in Pakistan. The guidelines are a set of practical steps to assist governments, the non-state sector and civil society to respond to women’s concerns and needs in post disaster situations.

Gender Responsive Budgeting

The Gender Responsive Budgeting website is a collaborative effort between the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the Commonwealth Secretariat and Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), which was launched in 2001. The website strives to support efforts of governments, women's organisations, members of parliaments and academics to ensure that planning and budgeting effectively respond to gender equality goals.

Gender Equity — Pacific

The 10th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women was held in Noumea 27–31 May 2007 and was attended by Ministers, officials from Pacific island countries and territories holding responsibility for women's ministries and departments, and development partners including from regional organisations, research institutions and civil society.

Items discussed at this important meeting included:

mainstreaming gender into national policy development, implementation and reporting

gender statistics and indicators
gender budgeting

building a women's movement and

influencing regional and international development frameworks about gender equity and gender equality.

Amongst recommendations emanating from the conference were three relating to women and disabilities. Specifically the meeting called for:

the rights and issues of women with disabilities to be effectively mainstreamed in all national laws, policies and programs and that specific anti-discrimination laws, policies and programs that include references to disability be enacted in Pacific Island Countries and Territories;
governments to undertake data collection on women with disabilities and promote the effective participation of women with disabilities all in future Triennial meeting; and

under the heading of Young Women Leaders, acknowledgement of the contribution and rights of women with disabilities to be included in government and NGO programs.

Final Decisions of the 10th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women (PDF)