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GIZ Promotes the Gender Agenda through a Gender Strategy
Posted in General by Olivia Okech on October 12th, 2011

GIZ has put in place a gender strategy aimed at improving gender mainstreaming, and promoting gender equality within the international cooperation. GIZ work is anchored in human rights for all, therefore the Gender Strategy 2010 -2014 will ensure that gender equality is comprehensively integrated in Germany and more specific in the field structure, ensuring that GIZ managers in various parts of the world devote themselves to gender issues.

This Gender Strategy is the third GIZ corporate gender strategy. This particular edition has departed from individual regulations and has instead focused on strategic guidelines for action, providing a framework, which each organizational unit should translate into specific terms. The particular guidelines include:

  • Political will

This mainly focuses on the fact that members of the top-level executive body are willing to advocate for gender equality within the company.

  • Gender Competence

This aims at ensuring that the employees have knowledge management skills and can easily acquire the information they need

  • Cooperate culture

This ensures that the organization fully embodies the values of the Gender Strategy both in and out of the office setting.

  • Processes

This focuses on ensuring that the Gender Strategy is adapted in all major processes in the organization.

  • Accountability

This focuses mainly on monitoring that the organization is taking the required steps as found in the Gender Strategy.

  • Gender Equality within GIZ

This aims to ensure that the organization itself is adapting the Gender Strategy within its many programmes and processes.

Another focus of the strategy is on implementation, which focuses on helping to identify the indicators, responsibilities, resources and ways of monitoring if the strategies are being implemented as they should be.

GIZ recognizes the fact that Gender equality is an essential precondition for good governance and for ensuring that men and women enjoy their human rights to an equal degree, which in turn is another prerequisite for sustainable development in their partner countries.

The GIZ Gender Strategy 2010 -2014 can be found at this link: GIZ Gender Strategy

Written by: Kaimuri Munene

 

 

 

 

 


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