Implementing Gender Mainstreaming: Action Plan Framework, Guidelines and Case Studies

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Peace Child International Peace Child International's Gender Empowerment Project produced a toolkit called 'Gender Journey'. It helps you to understand what the issues are and gives suggestions for how to take practical action to tackler gender based inequality. Most importantly of all, it is a toolkit of activities tried and tested by partners from around the world that you can use to run your own gender empowerment workshops!	Link
Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) The website includes a special section on Gender & Security Sector Reform (SSR) that addresses the challenge of integrating gender issues in security policies, institutions and programmes, so to create an efficient and gender-sensitive security sector able to respond to the specific needs of men, women, boys and girls. A practice-oriented toolkit on the importance of gender issues in SSR and on the strategies to integrate them is available for downloading on-line: a valuble guidance on how to start and develop a gender mainstreaming policy in the own organisation.	Link
Siyanda An on-line database of gender and development materials from around the world (also in Spanish). Also available is an interactive space where gender practitioners can share ideas, experiences and resources, and search for experts and consultants.	Link
Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Gender Handbook in Humanitarian Action "Women, Girls, Boys and Men: Different Needs ? Equal Opportunity" The handbook aims to provide field practitioners with guidance on gender analysis, planning and actions to ensure that the needs, contributions and capacities of women and men are considered in all aspects of humanitarian response. It also offers checklists to assist in monitoring gender equality programming.	PDF 3.2MB
Networklearning Guide: Incorporating Gender into your NGO (also in Arabic).	Link
Gender Mainstreaming and Organisational Change: Experiences from the field. Context-sensitivity. Successful story. The experience of Novib and seven of its partner organisations in South Africa and Middle East: It aims to capture the process of gender mainstreaming in different contexts and to document the challenges encountered and lessons learnt.	PDF 2.7MB
The World Bank: Gender and Development A number of cases in which gender perspective has been integrated in development programmes contributing as well to its success and to decrease of gender inequality.	Link
Global Finland A training package for gender training for the promotion of gender equality in NGO development cooperation accessible on-line.	Link
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) A list on on-line gender awareness-raising and gender-mainstreaming capacity-building materials and resources (including a Gender Training Kit and a Gender Mainstreaming Handbook).	Link
Gender Equality and Peacebuilding: an Operational Framework The document is designed to provide guidance to organisation working in the field of conflict management on how to involve both men and women in building peace and gender equality.	PDF
International Labour Organization (ILO) Gender Guidelines for Employment and Skills Training in Conflict-Affected Countries. Training Policies and Systems.	PDF