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Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers [PRSPs] must mainstream gender.


The majority of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers produced have not made explicit efforts to mainstream gender into the process. Only a few African countries -have addressed gender dimensions in their PRSP's to date and most of them apply the women in development approach. Addressing the gender dimensions of poverty and creating gender responsive interventions enhances the likelihood of success of poverty reduction strategy efforts. PRSP's, therefore must mainstream gender to effectively reduce poverty. Although women and men share many of the burdens of poverty, they frequently experience poverty differently. These gender differences are insufficiently captured in conventional poverty analyses, designs and monitoring systems. This deficiency weakens the chances of success of poverty reduction interventions.

PRSPs are a mechanism designed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF IMF

See: International Monetary Fund


IMF

See International Monetary Fund (IMF).
) to link debt relief to poverty reduction. Major beneficiaries from the PRSPs are assumed to be the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) are a group of 37 least developed countries with the highest levels of poverty and debt overhang, which are eligible for special assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.  (HIPS) who qualify for significant debt relief on completing their PRSP PRSP Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
PRSP Penicillin Resistant Streptococcus Pneumoniae
PRSP Program Requirements Support Plan
 processes.

Unengendered PRSP's become national development strategies that do not promote gender equality. Research compellingly correlates greater gender equality with greater poverty reduction and economic growth. Although Women's status has improved in most countries in the last half century, gender disparities persist everywhere and remain most acute in Africa. Gender Inequalities impose large costs on the well being and health of the poor, diminishing productivity and the potential to reduce poverty and ensure economic groMh.. In most societies, particularly in Africa, women have limited opportunities to improve their economic conditions and access services than do men.

Except for Rwanda, very few African countries have mainstreamed gender into PRSR PRSR Persistence Services Resources  One reason for this is because they were prepared based on the assumption that participatory processes would feed into PRSPs. Thus civil society organisations and governments in many countries placed considerable effort into ensuring participatory processes were gender inclusive and flagged key gender issues. But often-engendered participatory processes have not fed into PRSP's.

Uganda provides the best example of a participatory process, which flagged key gender issues. Ugandan women's groups played a key role in the participatory process. Uganda's extensive 1998-2002 gender-aware Participatory Poverty Assessment Programme consulted the poor, including women, to ensure their voices would be integrated into the national planning process. It included gender training on how to collect gender desegregated data and women's focus groups to overcome reluctance to speak publicly. However, when it came to the national participatory synthesis workshop, gender was diminished. Previously desegregated data was aggregated, obscuring gender differences and inequalities. A similar aggregation of sex.desegregated data also occurred in Ghana following its participatory process thereby, undermining the potential to challenge gender-blind policies. In preparation for its next PRSR Uganda is undertaking another participatory effort, which has stronger emphasis on gender issues than was the first.

Rwanda on the other hand, has succeeded in engendering its PRSP because it initiated a series of deliberate steps. The Ministry of Gender and the Promotion of Women bired an external gender expert to facilitate the process. The expert analysed and suggested ways of mainstreaming gender into the PRSP process. The consultant worked with the PRSP writing group at the Ministry of Economics and Finance to ensure its members were committed to mainstreaming gender into the PRSP.

PRSP stakeholders Stakeholders

All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government.
 lobbied the exercise facilitators of the importance of ensuring women's as well as men's views were solicited for the PRSP process. Both ministries co-sponsored a workshop to promote engendering the PRSP for representatives from a broad range of sectors. Participants practised practised
Adjective

expert or skilled because of long experience in a skill or field: the doctor answered with a practised smoothness

Adj. 1.
 using these PRSP engendering tools through a teamwork exercise to engender en·gen·der  
v. en·gen·dered, en·gen·der·ing, en·gen·ders

v.tr.
1. To bring into existence; give rise to: "Every cloud engenders not a storm" 
 PRSP sectors. Teams formulated recommendations on how to engender the PRSP text using tools provided.

Finally, an inter.agency PRSP Engendering Committee was established to promote PRSP gender mainstreaming. Committee members consisted of the PRSP writing team Director, the Gender and Development Department Director and a representative of Pro-Femmes -- the women's civil society umbrella organisation. All of the above steps contributed to producing an engendered PRSP.

The PRSP experience to date demonstrates that many PRSP writers have not been gender-aware. While engendering the participatory process and ensuring participatory inputs feed into PRSP's is important, it is also critical to lobby writing teams of the importance of mainstreaming gender to achieve poverty reduction goals. It is strongly recommended that all future PRSPs mainstream gender through methodical me·thod·i·cal   also me·thod·ic
adj.
1. Arranged or proceeding in regular, systematic order.

2. Characterized by ordered and systematic habits or behavior. See Synonyms at orderly.
 planning. An action plan to mainstream gender into PRSP's should be formulated and backed by resources. Unengendered PRSPs not only reinforce gender-unequal relations but also deepen deep·en  
tr. & intr.v. deep·ened, deep·en·ing, deep·ens
To make or become deep or deeper.


deepen
Verb

to make or become deeper or more intense

Verb 1.
 them to the extent that project benefits accrue To increase; to augment; to come to by way of increase; to be added as an increase, profit, or damage. Acquired; falling due; made or executed; matured; occurred; received; vested; was created; was incurred.  more to males than to females. Moreover, without engendering PRSPs, development is perceived as a process, which does not have to alter unequal gender relations.

Beyond PRSPs, gender equality has to be promoted at other levels. Besides engendering PRSPs, it is also critical for countries, civil society advocates and development co-operation agencies to concentrate on mainstreaming gender into all development investments. While mainstreaming gender into PRSP's and other instruments it is necessary to promote gender equality, implementing these engendered policies and project instruments is what counts for poverty reduction, development and growth If all PRSP's incorporated gender budget analyses, the critical follow up would be financing interventions targeting men and women as necessary to achieve gender equality. Implementing such programs to improve African women and men's lives is a long way down the line from PRSPs.

Elaine Zuckennan is the President of Gender Action

Les Documents Strategiques de Reduction de la Pauvrete

doivent integrer le genre

Par Elaine Zuckerman

La majorite de Documents de Strategiques sur la Reduction de la Pauvrete qui ant ete produits n'ont pas manifeste des efforts d'integrer le genre dans ce processus. A cette date, seulement peu de pays africains ant traite de dimensions de genre dans leurs DSRP DSRP Document de Stratégie de Réduction de la Pauvreté (French: Document of Strategies to Reduce Poverty)
DSRP Defense Space Reconnaissance Program
DSRP Dynamic Survivable Resource Pooling
.etplusieurs de ces pays appliquent l'approche Femmes et Development'.

Traiter des dimensions de genre liees la pauvrete et creer des interventions sensibles au genre permettent d'augmanter la possibilite de succes des efforts des strategies de reduction de la pauvrete Bienqu'il soit vrai qua les famines This is an incomplete list of major famines, ordered by date.

A complete list will almost certainly never become available. 5th century BC
  • 440 BC famine in Ancient Rome.
 at les hommes partagent plusieurs des fardeaux de la pauvrete, us font font
 or typeface or type family

Assortment or set of type (alphanumeric characters used for printing), all of one coherent style. Before the advent of computers, fonts were expressed in cast metal that was used as a template for printing.
, tres souvant, des experiences inegales de la pauvrete. Ces differences fondees sur le sexe sont insuffisamment representees dans les systemes d'analyse. d'elaboration et de surveillance de la pauvrete.

Les DSRP constituent un mecanisme concu par la Banque Mondiale et le Fonds Monetaire International (FMI FMI Fondo Monetario Internacional (Spanish: International Monetary Fund)
FMI Fonds Monétaire International
FMI For More Information
FMI Food Marketing Institute
FMI Fundo Monetário Internacional
) afin de lier Coordinates:

De Lier is a town in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Westland, and lies about 5 km north of Maassluis.
 l'allegement de la detta a la reduction da la pauvrete. Les pretendus beneficiaires majeurs des DSRP sont des pays tres endettes qui se qualifient pour un allegement important de la dette condition de mener leurs processus de DRSP DRSP Daily Record of Severity of Problems
DRSP Drug Resistant Streptococcus Pneumonia
 tame.

Des DRSP insansibles au genre deviennent des strategies nationales de developpement qui n'encouragent pas l'egalite entre les sexes. Les recherches reliant necessairement une plus grande egalite entre les sexes a de plus grandes reduction de la pauvrete et croissance economique. Bien qua ces cinquante dernieres annees, le statut de la femme La Femme is a women-only beach in Marina, Egypt which caters to Muslims who want to swim in comfort away from prying and prurient view of "men and cameras". External links
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 se soit ameliore dans dans plusieurs pays, des disparites de genre persistent partaut et demeurent plus prononcees en Afrique. Des inegalites de genre imposent des couts sur la bien-etre at la sante des pauvres, reduisant la productivite et la potentiel de reduction de la pauvrete et d'assurance de croissance economique. Dans plusieurs societes, surtout Sur`tout´

n. 1. A man's coat to be worn over his other garments; an overcoat, especially when long, and fitting closely like a body coat.

Noun 1.
 en Afrique, les possibilities que les famines ant pour ameliorer leurs conditions economiques ainsi que leur acces aux services sont plus limitees qua celles des hommes.

Tres peu da pays africains, l'exception du Rwanda, ant integre le genre dans les DSRR DSRR Digital Short Range Radio . Lune des raisons de ceci etant que les DSRP ant ete elabores sum la base de la supposition qua les processus participatifs auront de l'espace dans les DSRR En consequence, les organisations de la societe civila et las gouvernements de plusieurs pays ant fait des efforts considerables pour inclure at pavoiser le genre dans las processus participatifs. Mais lea processus participatifs da genre n'ont pas ete effectivement inclus dans lea DSRP.

L'Ouganda eat le meileur example dun processus participatif dans lequel lea considerations de genre ant ete pavoisees. Les groupes da famines ougandaises ont joue un role important dans le processus participatif. En Ouganda. dans le cadre (company) CADRE - The US software engineering vendor which merged with Bachman Information Systems to form Cayenne Software in July 1996.  du Programme Participatif d'Evaluation de la Pauvrete conduit conduit /con·du·it/ (kon´doo-it) channel.

ileal conduit  the surgical anastomosis of the ureters to one end of a detached segment of ileum, the other end being used to form a stoma on the
 en 1998-2002. lea pauvres, y compris les famines. ant ete consultes, pour que leurs voix soient integrees dans le processus de planification nationale. Ce programme incorporait une formation da genre sur les manieres de collecter des donnees desagregees de genre et sur la capacite, pour las groupes specialises de famines, de surmonter las complexes lies a l'incapacite da s'exprimer en public. Cependant, au niveau de l'atelier participatif de synthese national, la place accordee la question genre a ete diminuee. Avant ces entrefaites, las donnees etaient agregees, cachant les inegalites at las differences fondees sur le sexe. Ce genre d'agregation de donnees desagregees de genre s'est aussi produit au Ghana apres l e processus participatif, ca qui diminua le potential de defier de·fi·er  
n.
One that defies: a staunch defier of tradition. 
 des politiques insansibles au genre. En preparation de sea prochains DSRR l'Ouganda eat en voie d'entreprendre d'autres efforts participatifs qui mettent beaucoup beau·coup   also boo·coo or boo·koo Chiefly Southern U.S.
adj.
Many; much: beaucoup money.

n. pl.
 plus d'accent sum le genre qua le premier.

D'autre part, le Rwanda a reussi a integrer le genre dans sea DSRP parce qu'il a initie une serie d'etapes deliberees. Le Ministere de Genre at la Promotion de la Famine famine

Extreme and protracted shortage of food, resulting in widespread hunger and a substantial increase in the death rate. General famines affect all classes or groups in the region of food shortage; class famines affect some classes or groups much more severely than
 a embauche sous contrat une specialiste en matiere de genre de l'exterieur pour s'occuper du processus. L'expert a analyse an·a·lyse  
v. Chiefly British
Variant of analyze.


analyse or US -lyze
Verb

[-lysing, -lysed] or -lyzing,
 at fait des suggestions sum les moyens d'integrer le genre dans le processus des DSRP. Cette consultants a traveille avac le groups da travail TRAVAIL. The act of child-bearing.
     2. A woman is said to be in her travail from the time the pains of child-bearing commence until her delivery. 5 Pick. 63; 6 Greenl. R. 460.
     3.
 charge de la redaction See redact.  des DSRP au Ministere da l'Economie et des Finances pour veiller ce qua lea membres du minstere fussent engages a integrer le genre dans las DSRR. Las parties prenantes des DSRP ont milite aupres des facilitateurs de l'exeemcice en faveur de l'importance de s'assurer qua les avis des famines et des hommes etaient sollicites pour le processus des DSRP. Les deux ministeres ont finance un atelier pour promouvoir l'integration de genre dans les DSRP pour des representants d'une grande diversite de secteurs. Des participants se sont exerces l'utilisation de ces ou tils d'integration de genre dans les DSRP travers un exercice de groupes permettant d'integrer le genre dans les secteurs des DSPR. Ces groupes ont ensuite fait des recommandations sur les manieres d'integrer le genre dans les DSRP aide d'outils disponibles.

Jusqu'a cette date, l'experience des PRSP a demontre que plusieurs personnes chargees de Ia redaction des DSRP nont pas sensibilisees sur le genre. Sil est bien vrai que le processus participatif ainsi que les apports participatifs aux DSRP sont importants, il est aussi tres important de militer aupres des equipes de redaction sur l'importance d'integrer le genre pour realiser les objectifs de reduction de la pauvrete.

II est tres recommande que toutes les DSRP futures integrent le genre travers la planification methodologique. Un plan d'action permettant d'integrer le genre dans les DSRP devrait etre elabore et appuye par des ressources. Les DSRP non sensibles au genre ne renforcent pas seulement les relations inegales de genre, mais aussi les approfondissent tellement que le projet profite plus aux males qu'aux femmes. D'autre part, sans l'integration de genre dans les DSRP, le developpement est perqu comme un processus, incapable de changer Changer

The name given to a clearing member that is willing to assume the opposite position of a futures contract within a larger alternative exchange, of which it also is a clearing member.
 les relations inegales de genre.

Au dela des DSRP, l'egalite entre les sexes devrait s'etendre d'autres niveaux. A cote de l'integration de genre dans les DSRP, I serait aussi convenable con·vene  
v. con·vened, con·ven·ing, con·venes

v.intr.
To come together usually for an official or public purpose; assemble formally.

v.tr.
1.
 que les pays, les representants de la societe civile et des agences de cooperation de developpement, se concentrent sur l'integration de genre dans tous les investissements de developpement. En assurant l'integration de genre dans les DSPR et dans tout Tout

To promote a security in order to attract buyers.


tout

To foster interest in a particular company or security. For example, a broker might tout a security to a client in the hope that the client will purchase the security.
 autre instrument, il est necessaire de promouvoir l'egalite entre les sexes; ce qui compte pour la reduction de la pauvrete, le developpement et la croissance, c'est la mise en oeuvre de ces politiques et instruments de projets dans lesquels le genre aura ete integre. Si tous les DSRP incorporaient des analyses de budgets de genre, le travail de suivi essentiel consisterait financer des interventions visant des hommes et femmes en tant que facteurs necessaires Ia realisation de l'egalite entre les sexes.

Elaine Zuckerman est la Presidonto do Gender Action
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