strategy
Expanding social participation of women
Synonyms:
Forging woman's role in social developmentOrganizing women's social engagement
Forging creative women's roles
Focusing female social participation
Integrating women in development activities
Context:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Implementation:
The global initiatives of the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) strengthen and consolidate regional programmes relating to: women, environment and development; women's rights as human rights; women refugees; women's changing roles in such strategic areas as finance, science and technology, international trade and political decision-making. UNIFEM works with parliamentarians throughout the world to increase their awareness of needs of female constituents; works to ensure that women are on the agenda of key international conferences; works to ensure that women's concerns are incorporated into mainstream agendas and that women play a role in setting these agendas. Women have made key contributions in areas such as sustainable development, human rights and violence against women.The United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) stimulates and assists, through research and training and information activities, the efforts for the advancement of women and their integration to the development process at all levels. To multiply its outreach, the Institute works in close cooperation with UN, governmental and non-governmental organizations, and has established a growing network of focal points and correspondents at national level. INSTRAW's programmes in the 1992/1993 biennium can be grouped into two major substantive clusters: (a) mainstreaming gender in development strategies and planning and in the design, monitoring and evaluation of programmes/projects; (b) making women visible - and the valuation of women's contribution to socio-economic development. Encompassed under these two clusters are sectoral issues, the environment, credit, migration, the informal sector. Also included is relevant training, evaluation and statistics.
Claim:
1. Men and women are as two eyes in one body. They are at the same height, one not higher than the other and only a view through both these eyes can give a complete overview of the world. (an old Indian farmer).2. In order for women to be able to participate fully, the change has to begin at home. Men must collaborate in the day by day activities and needs of the family. They must learn to share household chores.
Broader:
Empowering womenImproving participationAdvancing interests of womenEnsuring social participationDeveloping coherent family policyEngaging total female participationBeing concerned with the role of women Narrower:
Employing women workersDefending women's rightsActualizing women's forumsEducating about women's healthForging community women's rolesProviding counselling for womenImproving skill base of rural womenCountering sexual exploitation of womenProviding vocational training for womenSupporting women in leadership positionsExchanging information on women's issuesEliminating discrimination against womenProtecting acquired legal rights of womenCreating projects for disadvantaged womenPromoting political participation of womenIntegrating women into technical cooperationInvolving women in development of communicationInvolving women in local development programmesSupporting participation of women in work forceIncreasing participation of women in trade unionsIncreasing participation of women in cooperativesEnhancing participation of women in higher educationEstablishing equal opportunity for women in employmentIncreasing participation of women in the public servicesIncreasing involvement of women in science and technologyExpanding public participation of women in water projectsPromoting participation of women in non-government organizationsImproving participation of women on sustainable consumption and productionStrengthening participation of women in sustainable development programmesSupporting development of women's organizations Constrains:
Restricting women's activities Constrained by:
Defining female role in marriageDenying right to participate in government for womenAbstaining from participation in development by women Facilitates:
Restoring feminineImproving status of womenEnabling poor to achieve sustainable livelihood Facilitated by:
Educating womenWorking from homeImproving literacy for womenProviding affordable loans to womenStimulating women's practical abilityDisseminating awareness on women's roleReducing discrimination against women in religionResearching women's role in the development processPromoting participation of women in cultural developmentProviding information on women's participation in developmentStrengthening technical cooperation on human resources developmentPromoting participation of women in preservation of the environmentRatifying international agreements on women's rights and participationRatifying international agreements on women's rights and participation Problems:
Discrimination against women in public lifeDiscrimination against women in religion
Gender inequality
Social isolation of women at home
Social subjugation of women
Values:
UncreativeUnsociableUndevelopedDevelopmentParticipationOverdevelopmentNonparticipatoryUnderdevelopmentUnderparticipation Organizations:
General Arab Women Federation United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women United Nations Development Fund for Women Fondation internationale de la femme africaine pour le développement Media and Women in the Rural Areas of the Arab World, Cairo Subjects:
Action → Action Society → Social
Society → Women
Social Activity → Participation
Industry → Iron, steel
Development → Development
Type Classification:
C: Cross-sectoral strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
