Gender in Europe & CIS

Joint meeting of the Gender, Local governance and Human Rights Communities of Practice

Yerevan, Armenia, 13-15 June 2006

Final report 

Seminar materials

• Concept Note
• Seminar Agenda
• Reference Materials on Gender, Human Rights and Local Governance and Decentralization
• Required readings
  • Concept paper on local governance and decentralization, RBEC
  • Excerpt from UNDP's practice note on decentralized governance for development
  • Gender analysis: For steps from a city tailored to women Canada
  • Gender and local governance
  • Gender and monitoring evaluation toolkit, Excerpt, World Bank
  • Human rights and decentralization, ICHRP Local Rule
  • Human rights based approach and decentralization, Excerpt, by Paul Lundberg
  • Human based approach to decentralization-programming, Excerpt 

Conceptual Framework

• Human rights and HRBA in the context of local governance and decentralization, presentation by Louise Nylin, Human Rights Specialist, BRC
• Part 1: Links beetwen gender, human rights and decentralization and local governance- A practical vision, presentation by Louise Nylin, Policy specialist, UNDP BRC
• Part 2: Human rights and gender in public service delivery, presentation by Holger Osterrieder, Policy analyst, BRC 
• Inter- Municipal cooperation in the context of gender and the huma rights based approach, presentation by Holger Osterrieder, Policy analyst, UNDP BRC
• Gender and the HRBA in the context of local governance and decentralization, presentation by Nadja Dolata, Project manager, Gender mainstreaming, UNDP BRC
  

Tools

I.Vulnerability analysis-Methodology for data collection, i.e. focus groups and small surveys 

• Methodologies, Purpose and Policy Apllication, Presentation by Susanne Milcher, Specialist, Poverty and Economic Development, UNDP BRC
• Employment profile card
• RMAP- Municipal level data collection via focus groups at local level
• Health profile card
• South-Eastern europe vulnerability assessment, Questionnaire
• Demographic profile card
• Education profile card    

II. Chekclists- Indicators and legislation checklists for thematic areas such as education, health, including background papers

• Checklist health, UNDP, BiH, RMAP, 2006
• Background paper education, UNDP, RMAP, 2006
• Checklist education, UNDP, BiH, RMAP, 2006

III. Baseline study- What information needs to be taken into consideration and analysed to establish a baseline

• How to make local development work for all- A human rights-based approach to local development planing, by Karine Lukas, Barbara Kuhhas, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights, Vienna, Decmber 2005 
• Tools for human rights and gender for local development, Case study, UNDP, Macedonia
• Questionnaire: Identification of the poor in Macedonian municipalities

Case studies

•  "Rights based municipal development program", RMAP 2006, UNDP BIH
•  Local Self-government elections in Armenia: Capacity- building training for    Women,Nune Harutyunyan, UNDP, Armenia Country Office
• Tools for human rights and gender for local development in Macedonia, Case study, UNDP, Macedonia 
  
  

Lessons learned presentations

• Rights based municipal development program, UNDP, BiH
• Tools for human rights and gender for local development, UNDP, Macedonia
• Applying a human rights based-approach and mainstreaming gender in local development programming and implementation, Case of municipal governace and sustainable development programme of UNDP, Ukraine
• Gender mainsreaming training sessions in the regions (Marzes) and public awareness building on NAP, UNDP, Armenia    
• Human rights and gender for local development agenda, UNDP, Moldova
• Introduction of performance budgeting mechanism at the community level to support the achievement of MDGs, UNDP, Armenia  
• UNDP regional development programmes in Georgia, UNDP, Georgia

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