1. Training of Punjab Based Potential Government FIPs
NDRMF’s Commitment to Gender and Inclusion By
Zohra Bano
UN, Global Perspective Human Stories
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2. Learning Objectives of this Presentation
To understand minimum requirements for developing gender mainstreamed projects/ proposals
To define a course of action essential to submit a quality gender mainstreamed/responsive proposal
Orientation on basic concepts of gender, inclusion and gender mainstreaming

3. Presentation Flow Challenges and Best Practices Basic Concepts Gender
Gender Equality (GE)
Gender mainstreaming
NDRMF Commitment to GE
Normative Frameworks (national and international level)
Internal Protocols/policies including GAD and GAP
Challenges and Best Practices
Challenges in developing gender mainstreamed projects
Way forward/how to develop gender mainstreamed projects/programmes
Sample GAP/Senario

4. Gender-a More, But Lesser Familiar Term
Activity: stereotypes

5. Situation???????
Do women and men have equal opportunities in the society?
Does disaster affect men and women differently?

6. What is Gender Equality?

7. Gender Differential Impacts of Disaster
Facts
Barriers to equality
Recommendations
Extreme weather events, rising sea levels, food production, earthquakes etc. have differential impacts on the lives of women and men.
Women, as a group, relative to men, as a group, have different possibilities for recovering from frequent and intensive periods of droughts, floods.
Women and children die disproportionately more than men.
Disasters also place women and girls at greater risks of GBV.
Women, due to historical discrimination and biases and social practices, have less assets, income and savings to deal with any adverse impacts of disaster.
Undertake special gender mainstreamed projects/ programmes to improve the resilience of men and women equally against natural disasters.

8. Understanding Gender Mainstreaming
“Mainstreaming a gender perspective is the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programs, in all areas and at all levels…a strategy for making women’s as well as men’s concerns and experiences an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programs in all political, economic and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated. The ultimate goal is to achieve gender equality.”
UN ECOSOC, 1977
Gender mainstreaming adopted at Beijing as a key strategy for promoting gender equality
Gender analysis recommended as the way to understand the differential situation of women and men

9. NDRMF’s Commitment to Gender Mainstreaming
CRC, CEDAW, CRPD, ICPD, Beijing Platform for Action, UDHR) and Hyogo Framework
Normative Frameworks & Alignment
1) Gender and Development Policy
2) Diversity, Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Policy; and
3) Gender Action Plan
Internal Frameworks & Alignment
Gender as standalone goal & integrated with environment and social safeguards
UDHR: Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
CRC: Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989;
CEDAW: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 1979;
CRPD: Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities;
ICPD: International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo 1994;
Beijing Platform for Action, 196;
Hyogo Framework,

10. Gender and Development (GAD) Policy
Gender equality and inclusion are critical to NDRMF
The policy guides the NDRMF and its FIPs to contribute towards gender equality by mainstreaming gender and inclusiveness in:
Organizational policies & plans
Programs, communications and policy dialogues
Financed projects
Key features of the Policy are
Guiding principles
Strategies to be adopted
Operational mechanism
Institutional arrangements required

11. NDRMF’s Gender Action Plan for Resilience Building
GAP 1.0
Define institutional gender mainstreaming priorities areas aiming to ensure gender equality.
GAP 2.0
Gender inclusive programming
GAP 3.0
Adaptation of best practices at the programmes/projects level where gender equality is cross cutting
Outputs
Improved organizational normative framework aiming at gender equality.
Increased investment on vulnerable groups to reduce vulnerabilities.
Strengthened analytical work to improve fiscal management of disaster risk.
Extended presence across Pakistan ensuring gender mainstreaming.
Strengthened partnerships with Government and Non-government agencies.
Gender mainstreaming through gender responsive programming for Retrofitting, Flood Protection, EWSs and CBDRM.
Gender mainstreaming at the institutional levels (NDRMF and FIPs level) through theory & practice.
Assumptions
Leadership commitment may fluctuate
Continued resource opportunities & field presence
Strategic Interventions
Impact
Gender equality mainstreamed at NDRMF, FIPs and community level.
Risks
Competing priorities
Limited financing for gender equality
Capacity issues at different level

12. Challenges in Developing Gender Mainstreamed Projects
Significant resistance-difficult to change attitudes and practices
Lack of technical skills and expertise
Lack of hands-on technical assistance on the “how to” of mainstreaming at the project level

13. How to Develop Gender Mainstreamed Projects
Leadership including political will and commitment
Research and analysis: understand and demonstrate the gender linkage, the costs of not investing in gender and/or the value added of doing so
Skills and expertise in gender to do the research and analysis, plan a course of action, back-stop implementation, develop a M&E plan and evaluate and document results
Hands-on technical assistance on the “how to” of mainstreaming at the project level
Allocation of Financial Resources i.e. GAP required for:
supplementary and complementary activities necessary for mainstreaming gender into a particular project
research and analysis
hiring of gender experts
Accountability mechanisms that use gender-specific indicators to:
examine outcomes and results and assess them relative to expectations (and/or baseline conditions)
determine the causes for lack of success, learn from them and fix them

14. Reference Documents Gender specific documents for reference:
Gender & Development Policy of NDRMF
Gender Action Plan of NDRMF
Gender Policy of ADB
National Policy on Disabilities and Inclusion
Guidance Sheets for Gender Mainstreaming (project development, development of GAP and others) by ADB

15. Group Work Gender Action Plan (GAP)
S #
Outcome
Outputs
Activities
Monitoring indicators
Responsibility
Baseline
Targets

16. Group Work Gender Action Plan (GAP) Budget
S. No 
Head/Activity
Frequency
Unit cost
Total cots
 Output 1:
 Output 2:
Output 3:

17. GAP M & E Plan for M & E activities
Indicator to which M&E activities feed into
Periodicity/Time of data collection (quarterly, bi-annually, annually)
Who is responsible (1 person only)
Who is involved
Resources
(budget)

18. Thank you

19. Situation / Case for Group Work
Assuming each group is familiar with the context of Pakistan.
Geographic Coverage: Pakistan (select, provinces/districts of your own feasibility)
Project life: 18 months
Objectives:
 Increased targeted communities safety against disasters through community based disaster reduction structures
Improved and strengthen early warning systems
Retrofitting of public structures (schools & health facilities) to ensure disaster risk reduction
Construction of flood protection structures along the rivers/streams to ensure safety to human lives, land and infrastructure