1. Strategic Directions 1.Corporate commitments 2.Key definitions 3.Monitoring Progress Instruments 1.CASes 2.DPLs 3.Investment Lending Supporting the World Bank Commitments to Gender Equality OPCS training June 7 2012 MC 2-800 Outline

2. What are our commitments, and why? Major commitments - some longstanding, others new.  IDA Commitments, Scorecard and Development Committee paper, Sept 2011 Significant IDA donor interest in promoting a real shift in operational focus. Major opportunity to ramp up efforts to follow up on the insights and momentum created by the WDR 2012

3. Corporate Commitments: IDA16 and CSC IDA 16Corporate Scorecard Net primary completion rate, girls and boys Gender parity index in primary and secondary education Ratio of female to male labor force participation Adolescent fertility rate (ages 15-19) Maternal mortality ratio Share of births attended by skilled staff Prevalence of HIV, female (ages 15-24) Tier 1: Country Progress Tier 2: Development Results Number of pregnant women receiving antenatal care during a visit to a health provider. Number of women and girls benefiting from social protection programs and other targeted schemes. Tier 3: Operational Effectiveness CAS/CPS draw on and discuss gender assessment findings 100% 100% Share of operations with gender-informed design 60% 55% Plus, for example, strengthened efforts to integrating gender in fragile and conflict affected states NOTE : Proposed expansion of TIERS I and II to include economic opportunities

4. Strategic Directions for the WBG in light of WDR2012 1. Informing country policy dialogue2. Enhancing country level gender diagnostics3. Scaling up lending for domestic priorities4. Investing in gender-relevant data and evidence5. Leveraging partnerships Discussed by the Executive Board on August 23, 2011 Endorsed by Development Committee on September 24, 2011 So what does the World Bank need to do differently ?

5. Increase gender-informed financing: one key element Definition : Gender-informed operations systematically consider gender inequalities, as reflected in the underlying analysis, actions and/or monitoring and evaluation arrangements.

6. Methodology for monitoring financing commitments  Analysis and/or consultation on gender related issues: Yes No  Specific actions to address the distinct needs of women and girls, or men and boys, and/or positive impacts on gender gaps : Yes No  Mechanisms to monitor gender impact to facilitate gender-disaggregated analysis. Yes No If “Yes” is selected for any of the three dimensions, operation is deemed gender informed. New streamlined methodology for tracking gender- informed financing, tracked via AIS coding by TTLs.

7. Financing trends: share of gender informed operations, FY10-FY12 Number of projects IDA 221 259 110 IBRD 171 134 66 FCS 71 67 21 All 384 384 171

8. Significant regional variation in performance (FY12)

9. With large variations across networks & sectors, FY12 Overall gender informed

10. Country Assistance/Partnership Strategies Development Policy Loans Investment Lending Gender and Bank Instruments

11. Vision Assess how gender issues are included in a country's development strategy. Diagnosis Reflect key gender issues that were identified in the gender and related assessments Program and Results Follow through with a gender-informed program and results framework. Thinking about gender in Country Assistance Strategies OP/BP 4.20 mandates that all CASes draw on and discuss the findings of a gender assessment. How to approach ?

12. 12 Vietnam CPS 2012-2016 will support the Government in four cross-cutting areas. Vision Peru CPS FY12-FY16 identified gender gaps in endowments, economic opportunities and women´s agency. Diagnosis Uganda CAS FY11-15 gender-disaggregates targets and milestones. Results Good Practice in recent CAS

13. Lending Instruments: trends in gender-informed DPL and IL

14. Alignment with national priorities Stakeholder consultations Analysis Policy Actions Prior actions Triggers Results indicators Identify entry points Design actions with gender lens Monitor progress using gender-related indicators Thinking about gender in DPLs

15. Directly target existing gender inequalities – Pakistan PRSC 2 (2007 ) includes the revision of three laws that constrain female labor participation. Can narrow existing gender disparities in the face of a reform – Egypt Third Financial DPL (2010) supports financial sector reform and, as reported in the PSIA, will benefit female headed enterprises and women’s access to finance. Reduce and eliminate adverse impacts identified in the PSIA – Serbia programmatic public expenditure DPLs (2009 and 2011) support a new pension law (triggers for the second DPL), which raises the minimum pension, and protects women on survivor‘s pensions, building on PSIA results. Support institutional and policy reforms – Pernambuco (Brazil) Expanding Opportunities, Enhancing Equity DPL (2012) includes prior action to create a permanent women’s secretariat and supports the secretariat’s technical skills for policy formulation Gender-informed actions are actions that:

16. Peru React II DPL, the institutional births PSIA (2008) informed the DPL- supported actions. Analysis Pakistan PRSC II includes amendments to three labor laws to improve labor market flexibility and increase female labor force participation. Pernambuco Brazil DPL includes creation of Permanent Secretariat for Women. Actions The Indonesia seventh DPL includes the proportion of female heads of households that received social assistance. M&E Good Practice in DPL

17. Gender-informed Investment Lending Supervision- Evaluation Concept- Appraisal Identification -Concept Thinking about gender in IL

18. Current network pattern in IL

19. Good Practice in IL Zambia Malaria Booster Project Additional Financing Project explores female malaria morbidity and mortality and recommends involving men in malaria awareness campaigns to encourage behavior change. Identification-Concept Papua New Guinea Urban Youth Employment Project identifies limited participation of women in project activities as a risk; targets quota of at least a third of trainees to be young women. Concept-Appraisal Kyrgyz Republic Second on-Farm Irrigation: includes a gender survey as part of the M&E framework to identify gender gaps in water user association participation and on-farm water management, and ways to enhance the role of women. Supervision-Evaluation

20. Uganda : A small-grants program for small-scale mining targeted female salt miners, and allowed them to increase profits. Afghanistan : Horticulture and Livestock Program targets female producers: number of women’s producers’ groups receiving extension messages, more than doubled between 2010 and 2011, to 361, and 50% of women’s producers’ groups engaged in savings activity compared to 46% of men’s groups. Peru : Rural Transport Project (PROVIAS) instituted quotas for women's participation: that 10% of micro-enterprise workers in road rehabilitation and 20% of members of rural roads committees be women. By February 2012, 24% of the staff of microenterprises and members on rural roads committees were women. What does mainstreaming look like in SDN?

21. Community of Practice Organizational Structure to deliver Executive Board President Knowledge and Learning: HDWBI PREM FPD SDN Regional Operations AFR EAP ECA LAC MNA SAR Operational Services, Policy & Systems OPCS MDs VPs MDs monthly meetings Quarterly Scorecard Regional Gender Action Plans Annual Gender Monitoring Report, WDR 2012 Implications, Corporate Scorecard, IDA 16 Country Programs GAD Board Sector staff, country teams, gender focal points

22. SDN Council decisions advance gender mainstreaming Monitoring Accountability Actions Incentives Direct oversight by SDN Council Quarterly progress reports to SDN Council Sector Boards Sector Board Gender Work Plans for Council approval by June 2012 Senior level sector "gender champions" First SDN Gender Award in March 2013 SDN Council decisions advance gender mainstreaming

23. Upstream guidance on CGAs How-to note on CASes – joint with OPCS  web-based links to good practice and resources Clinics and hands-on support – Honduras CPS: PREM-Gender LCR team provided just in time clinic; inputs; basic analysis Support Available to Teams