EU Practitionar‘s Network - Bruxelles, March 23, 2011
Gender Equality and Mainstreaming in
Swiss development Cooperation
Annemarie Sancar
SDC Gender Senior Advisor
Strengthening Implementation of the EU Gender Equality Action Plan –
Practitioners’ Network for European Development Cooperation – Bruxelles 23 March 2011
Dr. Annemarie Sancar / Senior Advisor in Gender Equality Mainstreaming
SDC Gender Mainstreaming Strategies
Gender as a transversal theme
Engendering organisations
Gender specific programmes
-> requires measures to integrate
gender in procedures, staff competence, budgets, indicators, etc.
-> initiatives/budgets to address
specific gender issues.
Strengthening Implementation of the EU Gender Equality Action Plan –
Practitioners’ Network for European Development Cooperation – Bruxelles 23 March 2011
Dr. Annemarie Sancar / Senior Advisor in Gender Equality Mainstreaming
SDC- Gender Mainstreaming - history
Milestones
o Gender Responsive Budgeting Initiative (07-08), incl. checklist
o indep. Evaluation (07-08), management response
o Gender Analysis of Expenditures (07, 08)
o Annual Progress Report I (benchmark), II (2010)
o Gender Equality Network (2009)
o Face to Face-events and Capitalization
www.sdc-gender-development.net
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diversity of instruments, approaches, methods
Technical Instruments and Content mechanisms
 Analysis of financial decisions, Q-standards (GRB)
 Reporting, Documenting (Annual Progress Report)
 Training, capacity development (functional)
 SDC Gender Budget, regional budgets for GM and action plans
 reference to local expertise, networks, NGOs, national action plans
 different forms of cooperation with “think tanks”
 Transdisciplinary space for exploring gender issues /paradigms in depth
(groupe de reflexion, events)
 Joint actions to reframing gender concepts in strategic processes and
policy (cross cutting), increasing definition of power through networking
 equal opportunity policy (monitoring, Logib)
Strengthening Implementation of the EU Gender Equality Action Plan –
Practitioners’ Network for European Development Cooperation – Bruxelles 23 March 2011
Dr. Annemarie Sancar / Senior Advisor in Gender Equality Mainstreaming
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success stories, challenges, entry points (1)
Elements of Success (Perfomance ↔ Content)
Institutional Compliance (APR, standard setting), budgets
Systematization, standard setting, comparability, identification of gaps
 Network: from micro issues to macro policies and back (exercising the
aggregation of data, exchanging experiences at different levels)
Conceptual debates with external stakeholders to identify stereotyped
assumption and explain and critically analyse the “value added”
thematic interventions in-house to foster comprehensive debates on
poverty, power, sustainability and development
 Agenda setting in PCM: Time, Care, macro economics
 case studies, gender specific analysis, evaluation, discussion
to turn them into public goods
Strengthening Implementation of the EU Gender Equality Action Plan –
Practitioners’ Network for European Development Cooperation – Bruxelles 23 March 2011
Dr. Annemarie Sancar / Senior Advisor in Gender Equality Mainstreaming
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SDC- Gender Mainstreaming
success stories, challenges, entry points (2)
Challenges – and entry points for action!
 volatility of responsibilities and functions
 decentralized structure, tracks of communication institutional
environment for data transport
 value of expertise for monitoring (gender, poverty, discrimination)
 lack of sex-disaggregated data and gender analysis for baselines and
implementation
Fragmentary reporting on gender issues in certain areas of
interventions, blurred theories of change for gender equality
Tracking without expertise  risk to reduce & falsify issue
Strengthening Implementation of the EU Gender Equality Action Plan –
Practitioners’ Network for European Development Cooperation – Bruxelles 23 March 2011
Dr. Annemarie Sancar / Senior Advisor in Gender Equality Mainstreaming
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