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UNESCO Gender Equality + The Division for Gender Equality (GE), located within the Bureau of Strategic Planning (BSP), is responsible for ensuring the implementation of UNESCO’s global priority, which is the “Priority Gender Equality Action Plan for 2008-2013”. This work is supported by a two-pronged approach involving both gender-specific programmes and gender mainstreaming within UNESCO’s five Major Programmes (i.e. Education, Natural Sciences, Social and Human Sciences, Communication and Culture), intersectoral platforms and thematic areas of focus such as HIV and AIDS and climate change.   For more information on the mandate of the Division, click here.   Click here to watch the Division for Gender Equality’s video: UNESCO Promotes Gender Equality

 

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• coordinates the preparation of up-dates, and monitors UNESCO’s “Priority Gender Equality Action Plan for 2008-2013”;
• provides policy implementation guidance for gender-specific programming and gender mainstreaming within UNESCO;
• forges, within UNESCO, its Member States and at regional and global levels, political commitment to gender equality and monitors the implementation of Priority Gender Equality in UNESCO’s programmes;
• supports capacity-building in UNESCO and Member States, particularly by developing holistic and multi-disciplinary approaches that would contribute to the achievement of international agreed development goals, and specifically gender equality (MDG 3);
• coordinates cutting edge policy research on gender equality issues in selected areas pertaining to UNESCO’s fields of competence in order to provide informed policy advice to Member-States and improve the evidence base of public policy;
• develops and establishes partnerships with other UN entities, international and regional IGOs, major international NGOs, private foundations and private sector partners that support women’s empowerment and gender equality initiatives;
• conducts orientation and training programmes to increase the competence and skills of UNESCO staff in HQ and field offices to plan, implement and monitor gender-responsive and gender-transformative initiatives;
• promotes gender balance within UNESCO’s Secretariat.