Gender Mainstreaming Strategy

In order to address effectively the challenges of gender equality and women’s empowerment in the area of trade, UNIDO has developed a gender mainstreaming strategy and Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women (GEEW) objectives based on three dimensions:

Resources

Promote equal access to resources and training opportunities. This objective will be achieved by the creation of opportunities for skills development and by facilitating access to employment and reward for work.

Rights

Ensure that quality infrastructure (QI)-related policy and the legislative environment are not conducive to discrimination against women. This objective will be achieved by systematically reviewing and evening out the impact of QI-related policy and technical regulations and also by promoting the safe and non-discriminatory delivery of national quality infrastructure (NQI)-related services, favourable to trade development.

Voice

Contribute to enhancing the leverage of women in gaining power and control over their own lives. This objective will be achieved through the promotion of gender balance within institutions leading to increased power to influence decisions in the economic and work environment. It will also result in greater ability to influence resource allocation and to take decisions within the household.