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Short Summary
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| Title |
The Role of National Mechanisms in Promoting
Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women Report of the Expert
Group Meeting |
| Author |
United Nations Division for the Advancement of
Women Department of Economic and Social Affairs |
| Publication
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January 2005 |
| Publisher |
United Nations Division for the Advancement of
Women Department of Economic and Social Affairs |
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Short Summary |
This report emerged out of an Expert Group Meeting
arranged by the UN Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) to
contribute to the review and appraisal of the implementation of the
Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA). The focus was on the BPfA commitment
to strengthen 'national mechanisms' for the advancement of women,
an area to be discussed during the forty-ninth session of the Commission
on the Status of Women (CSW) in 2005. The meeting considered the changing
contexts as well as the achievements of different types of institutional
mechanisms for the advancement of women, in formulation, implementation
and monitoring of national strategies for gender equality and empowerment
of women, and in facilitating gender mainstreaming in all national
policy areas. It further identified good practices and continuing
challenges faced by national mechanisms. Recommendations for strengthening
and enhancing the roles of mechanisms for promoting gender equality
and empowerment of women were adopted. These included the need to
use CEDAW and the MDGs more effectively and to recognise that there
is no one successful blueprint for national women's machineries, but
rather that learning and from good practice and adapting to particular
socio-political contexts was essential. |
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