Cover Second Meeting of the Technical Advisory Group on Gender Equality and Health (TAG GEH) November 10 th, 2009 Ian Stein PBR.

CoverSecond Meeting of the Technical Advisory Group on Gender Equality and Health (TAG GEH)

November 10th, 2009Ian Stein PBR

Mainstreaming Gender in PAHO The Organization’s Strategic Plan

• RER 7.3 – Social and economic data relevant to health collated and analyzed on a disaggregated basis (by sex, age, ethnicity, income, and health conditions, such as disease or disability

• RER 7.5 – Gender analysis and responsive actions incorporated into PAHO/WHO’s normative work and technical cooperation provided to Member States for formulation of gender sensitive policies and programs

Mainstreaming Gender in PAHO Operational Planning Manual

• Evolution of PAHO Planning

• Placing gender as a key component

Mainstreaming Gender in PAHO Operational Planning Manual

• To know how gender is being implemented by the Organization across entities and levels (regional, sub-regional, and country)

• To know how much resources the Organization is assigning to gender

• To monitor and report on program delivery across BWPs

Mainstreaming Gender in PAHO Checklists for Integrating Gender into BWPs

• While checklists may provide a good beginning, the real evidence of work is at the products and services.

Mainstreaming Gender in PAHO Classification for Cross Cutting

Priorities

• A first step, and reliant on in-house expertise to validate the coding.

Mainstreaming Gender in PAHO Reviewing the Gender Products and

Services

Mainstreaming Gender in PAHO Opportunities with Voluntary Contributions

• While regular budget funds are important, there are additional opportunities with PAHO voluntary contributions.

• Resource Coordination proposal review – Are we prepared for gender analysis in all proposals?