Policy on Gender Equality and Female Empowerment June 2012

1. Policy on Gender Equalityand Female EmpowermentJune 2012 Sylvia Cabus Gender Advisor USAID/Bureau of Food Security

2. USG Policy and Gender Integration

3. Changes in USAID Gender Policy Landscape • New Gender-Related Policies • Updated policy on Gender Equality and Female Empowerment – first in 30 years! • National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security • Counter -Trafficking in Persons • Changes in Institutional Practices • Operational Plans • Seven new indicators • Program Performance Review and annual report on gender

4. Gender Equality & Female Empowerment Policy Goal “to improve the lives of citizens around the world by advancing equality between females and males, and empowering women and girls to participate fully in and benefit from the development of their societies.” Source: The Hunger Project

5. What’s new? • Makes an evidence-based case showing that reducing gender gaps and empowering women and girls is vital to successful development outcomes • Articulates clear Agency-wide outcomes • Lays out clearly defined practices • Spells out organizational roles and responsibilities for bureaus, offices, and staff, with special emphasis on senior management and mission directors • Institutionalizes two senior full-time gender positions: Senior Gender Advisor (PPL) and Senior Coordinator on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (AA)

6. Focus on Three Outcomes

7. Guiding Principles

8. Eight New Gender Indicators • Gender Equality: • Number of laws, policies, or procedures drafted, proposed or adopted to promote gender equality at the regional, national or local level. • Proportion of target population reporting increased agreement with the concept that males and females should have equal access to social, economic, and political opportunities. • Women’s Empowerment: • Proportion of female participants in USG‐assisted programs designed to increased access to productive economic resources (assets, credit, income, or employment). • Proportion of females who report increased self‐efficacy at the conclusion of USG supported training/programming.

9. Eight New Gender Indicators • Gender-Based Violence: • Number of laws, policies or procedures drafted, proposed, or adopted with USG assistance designed to improve prevention of or response to sexual and gender based violence at the regional, national or local level. • Number of people reached by a USG funded intervention providing GBV services (e.g., health, legal, psycho‐social counseling, shelters, hotlines, other. • Percentage of target population that views Gender‐Based Violence (GBV) as less acceptable after participating in or being exposed to USG programming. • Women, Peace and Security • Number of local women participating in a substantive role or position in a peace-building process supported with USG assistance

10. What to expect from USAID

11. A new paradigm • Not additional, but integral to design • Analysis is focused on identifying the gaps between men and women • Projects are designed to reduce those gaps

12. Implications of gender issues Gender Relations (Between and Among Men and Women) Expected Program Results

13. USAID’s expectation of implementers • Conduct a gender analysis • Address identified issues in project design; detail strategies in work plan • Budget accordingly • Collect sex-disaggregated data and set gender-sensitive indicators • Monitor and evaluate gender issues* • Report on progress in closing gaps, creating opportunities, negative impacts avoided and emerging issues

14. Thank you!