ESAR UNCTs Gender Mainstreaming Training Report

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UNCT Gender mainstreaming report

Gender mainstreaming continues to be recognized as a critical strategy for accelerating progress on gender equality and the empowerment of women. Since Member States first endorsed gender mainstreaming in 1995 at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, they have consistently reaffirmed the importance of the strategy and noted the need for its accelerated implementation. Most notably, the transformative potential of gender mainstreaming was reaffirmed in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with its call for accelerated implementation. This was complemented by an explicit acknowledgement by Member States that sustainable development cannot be achieved in any area without gender equality and women’s rights and empowerment.

In addition, gender analysis was identified as the fundamental starting point for gender mainstreaming in the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action and the 1997 agreed conclusions of the UN Economic and Social Council. It constitutes the first and foundational requirement of all efforts to successfully mainstream gender equality perspectives into all work of the UN system.

UN Women’s UN System Coordination Division (UNSCD), in collaboration with the UN Women East and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO), held a capacity building workshop on Gender Mainstreaming for representatives from UN Country Teams (UNCTs) and UN Women Country Offices (UN Women COs) in East and Southern Africa.

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Bibliographic information

Geographic coverage: Africa
Resource type(s): Project/programme reports
Publication year
2025
Number of pages
20