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Gender - Women's Empowerment

UNDP aims to build capacity to support national development aspirations for addressing gender inequality. A particular focus is gender-based violence, human rights and the promotion of women in decision-making positions through leadership training. Projects in this area target mainstreaming of gender issues, empowering women, especially the poor and disadvantaged, and the realisation of the right to development for all.

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What UNDP PNG does for Gender Equality

The Government of Papua New Guinea together with UNDP has recently launched the 2007-2008 Gender Equality and Leadership for Results Preparatory Assistance Project.

With a budget of USD 300,000 the objective of this 15 month Preparatory Assistance (PA) Project is to design and plan a UNDP Gender Programme, called the UNDP Gender Equality Programme, in support of the United Nations Country Programme (UNCP) for 2008-2012. It will use and build upon UNDP’s comparative advantages and best practices in gender and women’s empowerment.

Based upon an analysis of the status of gender relations and women’s empowerment in PNG, the UNCP 2008-2012 has identified the following three key entry points for addressing gender inequalities in PNG:

Women in leadership
Gender-based violence
Girls education

Since UNDP’s mandate and comparative advantage limits its interventions to the first two of these three entry points, this project will focus on women in leadership and gender-based violence.

This project’s programme formulation process will be innovative in that concrete activities will be utilized as the means of conducting the project’s consultative process for the designing and planning of the UNDP Gender Equality Programme. These activities will involve the use of UNDP’s best practice methodology called Global Leadership for Results Programme (LDP). The principle outcome and deliverable of these LDP activities will be a programme plan for the UNDP Gender Equality Programme from 2008 - 2012.

Key documents:

2007-2008 Gender Equality and Leadership for Results Preparatory Assistance Project Document

National Gender Policy and Plan on HIV/AIDS 2006-2010

A Gender Audit of National Strategic Plan on HIV/AIDS 2006-2010