Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/80995 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2012/91
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
The Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995, was critical in making gender equality a development goal and adopted gender-mainstreaming as its primary mechanism to achieve this. Effective implementation of gender-mainstreaming involves changing both the internal organization and the external operations of development agencies to ensure that gender is integrated throughout the life cycle of all policies, programmes and practices. This paper assesses gender-mainstreaming in the development co-operation strategies and activities of three Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, and Sweden - in two aspects. The first aspect focuses on the central level of development agencies in terms of strategies, operations, and structures while the second component examines gender-mainstreaming at the embassy level, in terms of gender-mainstreaming in implementation and interventions for advancing gender equality.
Subjects: 
gender
gender mainstreaming
development agencies
Beijing conference
JEL: 
F35
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-555-0
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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