Quarterly Review Report - Gender Mainstreaming in Planning and Development
Division and Departments
Date:
Award ID:
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Implementing Partners
Period Covered:
Start and End Date:
Jan – March 2007
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Gender Mainstreaming in Planning and Development
Division and Departments.
Planning and Development Division and Provincial Planning
and Development Departments in Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan,
NWFP and AJK
January to March 2007
December 2004-2007
1. PROGRAMME ISSUES:
Status of Project Risks:
1. Limited institutional capacity (at
different tiers of Government) to
mainstream gender-sensitive planning
and processes.
2. Lack of reliable, disaggregated,
transparent and consistent data
availability in the reporting of
performance
indicators
against
government plans, programs and
projects on gender mainstreaming.
3. Limited capacity of Public Sector
training institutions to conduct Gender
Mainstreaming Capacity building of
government servants.
Open Project Issues:
1. The issue of coordination & synergy is central
to the efforts and strategies for poverty
eradication, good governance and gender
mainstreaming.
It
requires
successful
coordination between Government agencies,
donors, private sector and civil society.
2. GMPnD with its diverse partnership base of all
federal, provincial and AJK governments is well
positioned to mainstream gender concerns
within the government policies, plans and
projects to achieve complex task of achieving
gender equality and mainstreaming in
Pakistan.
3. Nomination of part time Project Directors with
many more official responsibilities makes their
involvement difficult.
4. Frequent transfers and resignations of project
directors and other project staff has adversely
affected the project progress.
2. PROJECT INTRODUCTION AND PERFORMANCE
This three years project (2005 – 2007), is a joint venture of United Nations
Development Programme and the Government of Pakistan and is being
implemented in collaboration with Planning and Development Division at the centre
and provincial Planning and Development Departments as well as the Planning and
Development Department of AJK.
The basis of the project is gender mainstreaming framework developed after
detailed deliberations with the stakeholders and finalized in-consultation with the
Government of Pakistan in the Planning and Development Division and Economic
Affairs Division, Islamabad under the umbrella of UNDP Gender Support
Programme.
The project has been conceived to contribute towards the goal of building capacity
of government officers to mainstream gender in the formulation, implementation,
and monitoring & evaluation of government policies, plans, programmes and
projects in all areas of development. Thus multi-pronged approach of the project is
directed towards institutional strengthening through awareness rising of
government senior officers, professional civil servants working in the top tiers of
government, legislators, managers and data managers.
The report at hand provides description of the project progress made during a three
months period from January to March 2007.
PROJECT PROGRESS DURING THE QUARTER
The Gender Mainstreaming in Planning and Development Division and Departments
project is in the last year of implementation. The Project has achieved substantial progress
during the period under report. The Capacity building trainings have continued during the
period. The Project has successfully institutionalized the Gender Mainstreaming trainings in
the Senior Management Course of BS 19 Officers in the National Management College
Lahore and in the Mid Career Management Course (for BS 18 Officers of the Federal,
Provincial and AJK governments) of the National Institutes of Public Administration at
Karachi, Quetta and Peshawar. The project has successfully entered into partnerships with a
number of Provincial governmental training institutes such as the Sind Local Government
and Civil Service Academy Tando Jam, Punjab Economic Research Institute Lahore and
conclusion of Formal MoUs with these institutions is in final stages. The Project has
successfully completed capacity building of Federal Government Officers at the Pakistan
Institute of Development Economics Islamabad. The response has been so great that the
total number of trainees for the federal government has exceeded the targets envisioned in
the project document.
The project has made progress in the establishment of disaggregated Databases in
Pakistan. The project has finalized the arrangements for establishment of a ICT Laboratory
at the Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) for disaggregating the Social Sector Statistics. The
ICT lab is expected to be functional during the second quarter of the current year. The
Project has successfully entered into collaboration with the Population Census Organization
(PCO) to engender the Census that is scheduled for the year 2008. An Engendering of
Census Workshop has been planned for the second quarter of this year.
The Assistant Resident Representative of the Poverty Reduction and Gender Unit of
UNDP accompanied by the Federal Project Management Unit held a meeting with Member
(Social Sector) of the Planning Commission of Pakistan to engender the Planning format i.e.
PC – I, to which the Member agreed and presently the case is under active consideration of
the Planning Commission.
The most important event of the project life was hosting if the International
Conference on Gender Mainstreaming in Planning and Development. The conference was
held from Jan 17 – 19 2007 in Islamabad with participants from nine countries and papers
were presented by speakers of international fame from Pakistan, India, USA, Armenia,
Turkey, Yemen, Iran, Indonesia and Turkey. The report of the conference along with the
compendium of the papers has been compiled and the draft is presently with the Deputy
Chairman of the Planning Commission for his message. The Conference deliberated on the
issues related to Gender Mainstreaming and produced a set of recommendations which
were presented before the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission who presided the
closing ceremony. The Deputy Chairman accepted the recommendations of the conference
and assured that the government will adopt the recommendations within the frame work of
the governmental policy.
OUTPUT I: Senior and mid level Planning and Development officials gender sensitized at the Federal,
provincial and district level.
Q 1 2007 Achievements:
Key Achievements under the output
Most of the Sensitization sessions and trainings were completed in the year 2006 therefore there was
no progress in the quarter as all were complete.
Quality Criteria
Date
Results of Activities
User Perspective
End users, particular
women
and
marginalized
N.A
population,
participating in the
trainings benefit
Satisfactory
Resource
Status
Satisfactory
Timelines
All Activities are
according
to
required timelines.
LESSON LEARNT:
1. The combined sensitization of such a large number of senior government managers is
difficult therefore an alternate strategy has to be devised such as newsletters etc.
2. The Sensitization of parliamentarians is difficult without involvement of the respective house
committees of the National Assembly and Senate. A partnership is being forged with these
committees through sister UNDP Projects working with the Parliament.
3. There is a need for conducted Refresher Courses, so that the trainers could be updated about
the latest developments in the international and national scenario, etc
OUTPUT II: Capacity Built of senior and mid-level officers to conduct gender analysis,
planning, monitoring and evaluation.
2007 Q1 Achievements:
The Key achievements under the institutional pillar include:



The capacity building trainings achieved the targets at the federal level in 2007. Against a
target of 50 a total on 93 officers were trained.
The Sind PMU forged a new alliance with the Sind Local Government and Civil Service
Academy Tando Jam to impart capacity building training to provincial civil servants from
Sind. Four activities of T1 and T2 were conducted during February and March 2007. Due to
engagement of PMU in GSP meeting, EAD-UNDP Workshop and International Conference
held at Islamabad during January 2007 and late release of plea for 1st quarter the trainings
were started from 19th February 2007. Therefore two activities were postponed. Against a
total of 150 trainings planned a target of 95 was achieved.
The institutionalization of gender sensitization modules in the government training
institutes at the federal, provincial and district level is being undertaken and has become an
integral part of the curriculum of National Institute of Public Administration (NIPA) under
NSPP, by integrating these modules in the promotion course of senior civil servants (Grade
19).

Balochistan and NWFP entered into agreements with their fresh partners to provide
Capacity Building trainings to provincial civil servants. Balochistan entered into
arrangements with Audit and Accounts Academy Quetta and Rural Development Academy
Quetta. NWFP entered into agreement with PARD, Health Service Academy and Staff
Training Institute. During the period, the Project in NWFP conducted three day course of T1
held from March 12-14, 2007 in NIPA Peshawar. A total of 24 officers participated in the
course which included Executive District Officers, District Officers and Assistant
Coordination Officers.

The Project in NWFP which had integrated Gender Mainstreaming as a subject in the
mandatory courses of the Staff Training Institute, Government of NWFP, assisted the STI for
conducting two day sessions on ‘Gender Mainstreaming in Development’ as part of the
regular advance course for a group of 29 under promotion section officers. The sessions
were held from March 12-13, 2007 at STI and the Project’s trainers delivered the customized

modules (T2) on the subject. Against a target of 100 officers a total of 53 officers were
trained.
In AJK one session of T1 training was conducted in the first quarter. Total 25 participants
were trained against the target of 25.
Quality Criteria
Date
The Quality Criteria is
linked to the output so that
the end user benefits,
particular women and
marginalized population.
The addition of Gender
Mainstreaming
training
aspect in the regular
training of Civil Servants
has received acceptance in
the government.
N.A
Results of Activities
User Perspective
Resource
Status
The various workshops,
training, seminars and
committee meeting were
useful and the user’s
perspective and feedback
was satisfactory and
appreciative.
Satisfactory
The addition of Gender
Mainstreaming training
aspect in the regular
training of Civil Servants
has
been
greatly
appreciated.
Timelines
All
Activities
could
not
be
conducted due to
pre occupation of
NIPAs with other
courses however
the backlog will
be covered in the
second quarter as
agreed by NIPAs.
Lesson Learnt:
1. The strategic positioning of the project is vitally important for its success. The ownership of
the project has to be at the highest level, as the commitment level is directly proportional to
the success of the project.
2. It is important to see how the integration of gender concerns in the trainings of civil
servants effects their attitude towards the gender issues.
3. The Gender Concerns have received greater acceptability with in the broader governmental
circles. The project activities have once again brought home to the policy makers that
operationalization of GRAP is of paramount importance.
4. The non availability of project staff is a major impediment and utmost efforts should be
made to avoid a situation where a vacancy remains vacant for a longer period of time.
5. The cooperation of provincial governments is importance and the all efforts should be made
to keep them keep them
OUTPUT III: User-friendly toolkits of materials on gender mainstreaming developed
Project ID & Description:
Q 1 2007 Achievement:
The toolkits have been prepared and being disseminated during the training courses.
Quality Criteria
Date
Results of Activities
User Perspective
The GMPnD training
result in Gender
Sensitive
Planning
and
Development.
The
marginalized
sections of society
and specially women
benefit equally and
equitably from all
developmental
activity.
NA
The projects’ design and
training has been widely
appreciated at all levels of the
government and the trainee
officers are provided with
necessary training material
which
helps
them
in
continuous sharpening of their
skills in gender sensitive
planning.
The
various
workshops, training, seminars
and committee meeting were
useful
and
the
user’s
perspective and feedback was
satisfactory and appreciative.
Resource
Status
Satisfactory
Timelines
All Activities are
conducted
according to
required
timelines.
Lessons Learnt:
The toolkits should be translated from official (English) to local languages (Urdu, Sindi , Pushto etc )
for making them more usable at the lower levels.
OUTPUT IV: Gender desegregated databases created
Q1 2007 Achievement:
The Establishment of Disaggregated Databases is one of the major activities of the project and the
project has held number of sessions during the last year. The Project established a linkage with
Population Census Organization as the holding of Census has been planned for the year 2008. To
incorporate the gender concerns with in the Population Census, a consultation has been planned for
April 2007 with representation from different government departments, academia and the PCO.
The Computer Training Component C1 is also a part of the output however the same could not be
started in the federal government as the training
Computer Trainings for government officers C 1
Target for Q1
Trained in Q 1
Federal
25
0
Punjab
0
0
Sindh
50
23
Balochistan
0
0
AJK
0
0
NWFP
25
21
Total
100
44
Percent Achieved
Quality
Criteria
The
GMPnD
contribution to
establishment
of
disaggregated
data have been
appreciated
and
the
Bibliography of
Gender Data in
Pakistan
has
been
widely
appreciated
and a positive
feedback
has
been received
in this regard.
44%
Date
Results of Activities
User Perspective
NA
The projects’ contribution has
been appreciated at the highest
level
of
the
Planning
Commission of Pakistan. The
Members of the Planning
Commission and Secretary
Planning and Development
Division have visited the
project training and other
related activities on various
occasions and have been highly
appreciative
of
the
contribution.
Resource
Status
Satisfactory
Timelines
All Activities are
conducted
according
to
required
timelines.
Lessons Learnt:
1. 1.
The Establishment of Disaggregated databases is a tall order and the project should make small
contributions to achieve the ultimate goal of disaggregated data.
2.
The Census is a major constitutional activity which is undertaken once a decade and needs to
be
undertaken with a gender perspective for availability of disaggregated data in Pakistan to
be used for Planning and Development Purpose.
3.
There is a lot of data on social sector such as the health, education etc that is already
Available but not being used therefore there is a need to publicize the availability of such
data for use by planners.
4.
The District is now the basic functional unit of the local government and planning therefore
the data must be available to the district planners.
OUTPUT V Knowledge based networking promoted.
2006 Key Achievements:

The Federal PMU has revamped its website and the website has been uploaded by the
Ministry of Planning and Development Web Administrator. The website has been updated
and all available publications have been placed there for easy access by all users.

The most important event of the project life was hosting if the International Conference on
Gender Mainstreaming in Planning and Development. The conference was held from Jan 17 –
19 2007 in Islamabad with participants from nine countries and papers were presented by
speakers of international fame from Pakistan, India, USA, Armenia, Turkey, Yemen, Iran,
Indonesia and Turkey. The report of the conference along with the compendium of the
papers has been compiled and the draft is presently with the Deputy Chairman of the
Planning Commission for his message. The Conference deliberated on the issues related to
Gender Mainstreaming and produced a set of recommendations which were presented
before the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission who presided the closing
ceremony. The Deputy Chairman accepted the recommendations of the conference and
assured that the government will adopt the recommendations within the frame work of the
governmental policy. The project has forged regional and international networks using this
occasion and the project is using the experiences of the international practitioners to achieve
its targets.

In the meanwhile a large number of officers have been trained in the use of internet and email. These officers will form the group of the practitioners who would be able to share their
best practices and on field experiences during the discussions.
Computer Training C 2
Target for Q1
Federal
25
Trained in Q1
0
Punjab
0
0
Sindh
75
57
Balochistan
0
0
AJK
0
0
NWFP
0
0
Total
100
57
Percent Achieve
57%
Quality Criteria
Date
The
knowledge
networking is aimed at
increased interaction of
gender
practitioners
through use of ICT tools
and the establishment of a
website has been a major
improvement. The website
has
been
placed
prominently
on
the
Planning
Commission’s
website and there have
been a large number of
users who have benefited
from the material available
on the site.
N.A
Results of Activities
User Perspective
Resource
Timelines
Status
Various participants of
training
events,
workshops and seminars
have appreciated the
availability of training
and other knowledge
All Activities are
material.
in
Sync
and
conducted
Satisfactory
according
to
required
timelines.
Lessons Learnt:
1.
2.
3.
The availability of internet facility has to be ensured to planners at all levels. This facility is
available at the federal and provincial level but the same is not available in the districts,
which have to be ensured.
The government policy of not allowing the use of internet on the official computers for
security reasons has to change as this seriously discourages the use of latest information in
official business.
The government servants have to be encouraged to use internet and the government has
to expedite the establishment of paperless working environment which has been the major
function of the government’s E – Government Initiative.
Financial Summary (US$)
Account
71300.00
71400.00
71600.00
72100.00
72200.00
74500.00
Fund
Code
30000
30000
30000
30000
30000
30000
Donor
-
R. Party
GMPND
GMPND
GMPND
GMPND
GMPND
GMPND
Budget
402,732
311,920
163,536
1,705,354
18,173
319,477
Expenditure
40,674
20,894
183,220
7,943
Balance
402,732
271,246
142,642
1,522,134
18,173
311,534