New Database Additions  Short Summary Title UNDP Gender Mainstreaming Scorecard Author United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (n.d.) Publication Date January 2009 Publisher United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Summary Source Adapted from UNDP (n.d.) Gender mainstreaming scorecard Summary UNDP has opted for mainstreaming gender as its main strategy to achieve gender equality and women's empowerment. To this end, it has developed a Gender Mainstreaming Scorecard - a tool which combines the measurement of institutional and programmatic performance on gender mainstreaming. Effective gender mainstreaming requires: explicit gender policies and implementation frameworks capacities for systematic gender analysis in planning and programming tracking and accountability system with specific performance indicators and measures of progress. The challenge is to show, with concrete evidence that, by opting for a gender mainstreaming strategy, UNDP has effectively moved marginalised women's empowerment programmes to the centre of its core business. The Gender Mainstreaming Score Card is intended to summarise organisational performance in gender mainstreaming. It builds on existing indicators adopted by UNDP. The Scorecard requires that a score between one and five is allocated and it includes indicators around: - Policy commitment - measured through analysis of a corporate and a bureau level gender policy; - Implementation framework - which measures guidelines on gender mainstreaming; capacities such as gender expertise in programming; and resources allocated to gender equality/women's empowerment through specific and mainstream channels - Accountability - including gender responsiveness in management performance; a transparent monitoring mechanism across units; and whether gender is on the agenda of senior management meetings. For more information, contact UNDP at: http://www.undp.org/women/ Complete Document View PDF (Portable Document Format)