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Dominican Republic . Mainstreaming Gender – Our experience with the Dominican Republic CAS. Mainstreaming Gender – Our experience with the Dominican Republic CAS. Content DR CAS – Highlights Gender issues in the DR How to mainstream gender in the CAS? Lessons learned.

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  1. Dominican Republic Mainstreaming Gender – Our experience with the Dominican Republic CAS

  2. Mainstreaming Gender – Our experience with the Dominican Republic CAS • Content • DR CAS – Highlights • Gender issues in the DR • How to mainstream gender in the CAS? Lessons learned

  3. Mainstreaming Gender – Our experience with the Dominican Republic CAS • The World Bank Group’s strategy over the four-year period covered by the FY06-09 CAS rests on two main Pillars: • stabilize the economy, improve competitiveness, and restore economic growth; and • achieve greater social equity through human development and increased coverage and quality of basic public services. •  Institutional strengthening, transparency, gender, youth and environmental sustainability are cross-cutting themes • This is not a results-based CAS (though results-based monitoring system in place at the time of CAS Progress Report

  4. Mainstreaming Gender – Our experience with the Dominican Republic CAS – IBRD Lending Program

  5. Mainstreaming Gender – Our experience with the Dominican Republic CAS - IBRD AAA Program

  6. Mainstreaming Gender – Our experience with the Dominican Republic CAS IFC Program • IFC’s assistance will focus on restoring confidence in the private sector supporting projects generating growth, improving the country’s competitiveness, and contributing towards greater social equity  support to SMEs

  7. Mainstreaming Gender – Our experience with the Dominican Republic CAS • Higher poverty rates among household headed by women, particularly in the bateyes • High maternal mortality rates • Unequal access to job market, land tenure, elective political positions and salary discriminations • Crime, violence and trafficking

  8. Mainstreaming Gender – Our experience with the Dominican Republic CAS Gender Mainstreaming in the DR CAS: lessons learned • Gender not treated as a separate chapter of the report, instead… • Gender perspective included all along the report (assessment, program) • Avoid statements not substantiated by data • Ample use of WB and other donors’ reports (USAID, UNDP, etc.) • Key role of consultations (CSOs, but also key gov’t policy makers) • But most importantly……

  9. Mainstreaming Gender – Our experience with the Dominican Republic CAS • Talk the Lead Economist and SLs through Gender issues by using their own language, that is: • Economic and sector work (e.g. Poverty Assessment, PER, etc.) • Project Documents • Country Gender Assessment In a nutshell: Build a gender case on the basis of strong analytical grounds and extensive consultations with stakeholders

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