A Quick Guide to Gender Mainstreaming in Development Planning: 2 (Gender Management System Series) - Softcover

Taylor, Viviene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0850925932 ISBN 13: 9780850925937

Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat, 1999

Synopsis

This Quick Guide offers short, user-friendly coverage of 'Gender Mainstreaming in Development Planning' , a larger, sectoral guide within the Management System (GMS) resource kit. GMS is an innovative system developed by the Commonwealth Secretariat for gender mainstreaming.

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Synopsis

This is one of the quick guides (accompanying relevant sectoral guides) that are part of the Gender Management System (GMS) resource kit, a series of publications presenting GMS. GMS is an innovative system developed by the Commonwealth Secretariat for gender mainstreaming. The system is a comprehensive network of structures, mechanisms and processes for bringing a gender perspective to bear on all government policies, plans, programmes and projects. The kit consists of a handbook which present the GMS in detail; sectoral guides to gender mainstreaming in specific sectors; and resource documents to assist the user in gender analysis, monitoring, evaluation and other aspects of gender mainstreaming. Each sectoral guide also has a corresponding Quick Guide - a short, user-friendly publication presenting the essential points. It is designed for policy makers, planners, field staff and other government personnel involved in gender mainstreaming, as well as for academic users, NGOs, the private sector and other who have a stake in advancing gender equality and equity.

Edition details

• Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0850925932
• ISBN 13: 9780850925937
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40