Action Plan to Integrate Gender in Infrastructure in East African Region MDB-Sponsored Regional Workshops to Mainstream Gender Equality in Infrastructure Policies and Projects Africa Regional Workshop, Addis Ababa Big number of participants, and gender-balanced representation, active participation of all (Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Saudi Arabia)

Regional Action Plan Vision: Gender equality and empowerment of women in infrastructure in the East Africa Region Through actions in the following areas: Policy level Institutional level Project level

Method Divided big group by sectors (transport, irrigation, energy, WATSAN) Examined opportunities for collective regional AND national action This report focuses on a set of common agreed actions to be taken and tools to be applied on the regional level © World Bank

Policy Actions

Regional gender audit of sector policies, institutions, and screening of projects (gender resources (human and financial, and knowledge, e.g. guidelines) utilizing, where existing, regional platforms (eg AMCOW) Implementation of CEDAW and AMCOW (and national constitutions and policies… that are already in place) © World Bank

Institutional Action

Establishing or strengthening gender focal point systems and developing linkages with MoG/Women’s affairs Developing a regional gender disaggregated database Considering including gender- related responsibilities in Performance Contracts Training of senior manager and feed back with lessons, learned from this workshop Monitoring and evaluation of existing strategic plans © World Bank

Institutional Action (cont) Increasing the human resource base (especially women in infrastructure- related training), and seeking to integrate gender in curricula of technical education Affirmative action to allow more women to join infrastructure / technical courses Establish a virtual network of practitioners on gender and infrastructure Awareness creation among sector players Sub/Regional workshop in March 2012 to follow-up on this action plan

Project Action

Project Actions Awareness creation so that men to support women to benefit equitably from projects Integrating gender in bidding documents, considering earmarking funds for specific activities Undertake gender screening in AT LEAST one project in each sector per country Analysis of gender in value chain for projects in irrigation Gender-disaggregated data for results and evidence-based policy dialogue

Country Acvtivities IrrigationWatSanTransportEnergy PolicyEqual access to land is neededGender audit of WATSAN policiesPolicies in place – no need for actionAll countries have policies Gender audit of policies Countries not having policy to use the audit to develop strategies Saudi Arabia needs a policy Kenya did an audit, but others have not – all countries should audit policies, perhaps combined Gender audit still needed Ministry in charge of gender Institutions Strengthening gender dept of ag ministries and developing linkages with MoG affairs Baseline for water (Eth) – impact on women and men Gender/cross-cutting issues officers exist (Rwanda, Ethiopia) but may need strengthened capacities Awareness of senior-level managers for sensitization Developing a gender disaggregated database Building capacities for planning Strengthening M&E in Uganda and Kenya Gender PC in Kenya Guidelines available in some countries- should be available in all countries Experience exchange on gender audit (eg Kenya), using existing guid4elines Gender audit of institutions Gender audit of institutions to see gender-related gaps Bringing stakeholders together, ministry, regulator, utilities, gender Energy Network Exchange experiences Influencing private investors to commit resources Capacity building Level-up countries that have not started gm (eg Ethiopia) Action-oriented case study research on impact on bringing energy, water, transport Capacity building of gender desks Developing strategies for gender desdks Developing tools and guidelines Implementing policies and strategies (for those who have developed) Bring in other actors in the energy sector to develop policies for gm ProjectsGender screen projectsIntegrating gender in bidding documentsGender-disaggregated data on projects Multiple uses of waterRecruitment / train More women staffIdentify projects to generate data Capacity building along the value chain (incl post harvesting, market access, etc) Affirmative action to allow more women in courses Sub-regional training on all the tools we have been trained on here Capacity building of wo/menGender in curriculum Targeting girls for science-based training Awareness campaign targeting men Awareness creation among players, constructors, etc, engineers, how do they mainstream gender Earmark funds for gender in projects

Indicators Nr of policy and institutional audits undertaken by 2012 March Nr of projects screened by gender by March 2012 Nr of Performance Contracts integrating gender Number of countries with gender- disaggregated data Number of people trained on these tools

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