Mainstreaming a Gender Perspective Into All Policies and Programmes in the United Nations System

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 7cMainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations System, published in 2013.

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24 versions · 2002–2025

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What subjects does this mandate have?

4 topics

Capacity Building Coordination Within UN System Gender Equality Gender Mainstreaming

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 2014.

2014E/2014/63Mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system report of the Secretary-General

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What does this mandate say?

22 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General, and appreciates that it is the first report on gender mainstreaming to provide a systemic and comprehensive approach to data collection through the United Nations system;

Also welcomes the recommendations contained in the report, and calls for further and continued efforts to mainstream a gender perspective into all policies and programmes of the United Nations, in accordance with all relevant United Nations resolutions, in particular those of the Economic and Social Council;

Stresses that the Inter-agency Network on Women and Gender Equality constitutes a key forum for achieving more effective coordination, coherence and gender mainstreaming across the United Nations system and for the exchange and cross-fertilization of ideas and practical experiences on gender mainstreaming within the United Nations system, and looks forward to the continued implementation of the policy and strategy for gender mainstreaming within the United Nations system;

Notes with appreciation the important work of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) for more effective and coherent gender mainstreaming across the United Nations and its role in leading, coordinating and promoting accountability of the United Nations system in its work on gender equality and the empowerment of women, as established by the General Assembly in its resolution 64/289, and recognizes its role in assisting Member States upon their request;

Requests the United Nations system, including its agencies, funds and programmes, within their respective mandates, to accelerate mainstreaming the issue of gender in accordance with previous Economic and Social Council resolutions, in particular resolution 2008/34, and General Assembly resolutions 64/289 and 67/226, including mainstreaming a gender perspective into all operational mechanisms, inter alia, the United Nations Development Assistance Framework and other development frameworks, ensuring that managers provide leadership and support, within the United Nations system, to advance gender mainstreaming, strengthening reporting, monitoring and evaluation so as to allow for system-wide assessment of progress in gender mainstreaming and using existing training resources, including institutions and infrastructure, to assist in the development and application of unified training modules and tools on gender mainstreaming;

Also requests the United Nations system to continue and increase support to Member States, with their agreement and consent, in the implementation of national policies for the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women, inter alia, by providing support and capacity development to national machineries for the advancement of women and related national entities;

Welcomes the roll-out of the United Nations System-wide Action Plan on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, under the leadership of UN-Women, and the use of reporting under it to inform the report of the Secretary-General on mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system, in order to provide the baseline for measuring the progress of the United Nation system on gender mainstreaming at the corporate level;

Recognizes that large gaps remain between policy and practice and that building United Nations staff capacities alone is not sufficient for the entire United Nations to meet its commitments and obligations with respect to gender mainstreaming;

Encourages the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination and senior managers to continue directing their attention to promoting gender mainstreaming in the United Nations system;

Requests the United Nations system, including its agencies, funds and programmes, within their respective organizational mandates, to continue working collaboratively to enhance and accelerate gender mainstreaming within the United Nations system including by:

Continuing to roll out the System-wide Action Plan and reporting on progress made in its implementation, including of entity-specific remedial action plans, as a system-wide accountability mechanism for performance in gender mainstreaming;

Prioritizing remedial action plans and investing in human and financial resources, as appropriate, to address the gaps identified through the System-wide Action Plan reporting towards meeting set standards;

Supporting efforts by the governing bodies of United Nations entities to devote adequate attention to gender mainstreaming in their plans and activities;

Ensuring that the various accountability mechanisms of the United Nations system provide for more coherent, accurate and effective monitoring, evaluation and reporting on gender equality results and common indicators on gender equality and the empowerment of women, and on the tracking of gender-related resource allocation and expenditure, including through the use of gender markers;

Continuing to better align gender equality programming with national priorities across sectors, as requested by the Member State concerned, with the aim of mainstreaming gender perspectives into all legislation, policies and programmes;

Strengthening the coordination of gender-responsive operational activities among entities of the United Nations system through existing coordination mechanisms at the country level and in partnership, where appropriate, with national stakeholders;

Instituting greater accountability in evaluations conducted, inter alia, by United Nations country teams through the inclusion of gender perspectives in such evaluations;

Expanding and strengthening the use by country teams, in the context of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework, of the United Nations Development Group performance indicators on gender equality (gender scorecard), as a planning and reporting tool for assessing the effectiveness of gender mainstreaming;

Substantially increasing the investment in and focus on outcomes and outputs relating to gender equality and the empowerment of women in the United Nations Development Assistance Framework programmes, including by strengthening the predictability of funding, broadening the donor base and increasing the flexibility of non-core resources;

Acquiring appropriate technical expertise for gender mainstreaming into programme planning and implementation to ensure that gender dimensions are systematically addressed and, in this regard, drawing on the gender equality expertise available in the United Nations system, including at UN-Women, to assist in the preparation of United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks and other relevant programming frameworks;

Collecting, analysing, disseminating and using accurate, reliable, comparable and relevant data, disaggregated by sex and age, in a regular and systematic manner, in order to guide country programming, to support the preparation of organization-wide and country-level documents, such as the strategic, programmatic and results-based frameworks and evaluations, and to continue to promote and refine their tools for measuring progress and impact;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session of 2014 a report on the implementation of the present resolution, including on the promotion of accountability at both the national and the global levels and on progress made in the implementation of the System-wide Action Plan.

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