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 EU Practitionar‘s Network - Bruxelles, March 23, 2011 Gender Equality and Mainstreaming in Swiss development Cooperation Annemarie Sancar SDC Gender Senior Advisor

SDC Gender Mainstreaming Strategies 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 Engendering organisations Gender specific programmes Gender as a transversal theme -> requires measures to integrate gender in procedures, staff compe- tence, budgets, indicators, etc. -> initiatives/budgets to address specific gender issues.

3 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

4 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 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)

5 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 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

6 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 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