Guide on Gender Mainstreaming: Environmental Management Projects
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Date: 2015
Topics: Gender, Monitoring and Evaluation, Programming
Gender equality is a goal in its own right, but it is also vital to the achievement of other development goals, such as poverty reduction and environmental sustainability. To ensure that women and men can equally access, participate, and benefit from development projects, and that gender inequalities in activities and outcomes are reduced or eliminated, gender differences need to be considered during the entire project cycle—from design and implementation to monitoring and evaluation. While UN Women has a specific mandate to work on empowering women, all United Nations agencies have a responsibility to work with a gender perspective and to understand how and where gender issues are relevant to fulfilling their mandate.
By systematically mainstreaming gender into its environmental management interventions, UNIDO can ensure equal opportunities for women and men, thus furthering its inclusive and sustainable industrial development (ISID) agenda and contributing to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the post-2015 development framework. The aim of this Guide is to “demystify” gender mainstreaming and to provide practical guidance on how to systematically address gender inequalities specific to UNIDO’s environmental management interventions.