While some projects addressed gender issues, others paid little or no attention to gender relations and gender equality

There is no formalized structure for gender mainstreaming in sector ministries and no clear mandate for Gender Focal Points (GFPs).

As for secondment, no gender statistics are available, but it can be said that the secondment mechanisms indicate no gender based distinction.

There is no gender discrimination in these arrangements.

There is no specific law covering all gender related violence.

A Gender Mainstreaming Mechanism has been established by Presidential Instruction No. 9 of 2000 on Gender Mainstreaming in National Development.

There has been no intensive research on the critical gender issues.

There is no effective National Gender Mainstreaming Programme and therefore co ordination of the gender mainstreaming at national level becomes difficult.

There is no statistics kept according to gender in the Trade Unions.

Several delegations questioned why no separate budget line was accorded to gender, and strongly suggested that gender receive greater resources and additional posts.

Lourdes Beneria and Savitri Bisnath, Gender and Poverty An Analysis for Action, UNDP Gender in Development Monograph Series No. 2 (New York, 1996).

There is no gender discrimination in the Niger in the above mentioned areas.

Williams, Tourism Liberalization, gender and the GATS, Economic Literacy Series General Agreement on Trade in Services No. 5 (International Gender and Trade Network, 2003).

The Regulations make no gender distinction in the recruitment and promotion of civil servants.

There is also no special record on percentage of votes at elections according to gender.

We do not have experts for this area, as there are no organised gender studies

Government Position on Gender Mainstreaming (Parliamentary Papers, House of Representatives 2000 2001, 27061, no 15).

Lebanon's labour legislation decreed that there should be no discrimination on the basis of gender.

Presidential Instruction No. 9 of 2000 obliges all Government representatives and agencies to mainstream gender in their policies, programs, projects, activities and budgets to eliminate gender based discrimination.

UNDP staff may have assumed from these changes that gender mainstreaming was no longer a priority.

No discretion is left to the reporting officer to make a government official's gender an issue.

Gender violence and discrimination against women must no longer be tolerated in silence or go unpunished.

Gender and gender roles

In accordance with Presidential Instruction No. 9 of 2000 on Gender Mainstreaming in All Government Establishments, the Strategy was designed and implemented in accordance with a contemporary gender perspective.

Gender equality and gender mainstreaming

There are no gender related restrictions on the right to hold an office in the Civil Service.

There was no gender disparity in education and primary education was compulsory for both boys and girls.

Coverage by gender shows no marked distinction between men and women in the various types of education.

Turning to article 10 of the Convention, she said that there was no gender discrimination in education.

41. The Naif Arab Academy for Security Studies emphasized that there was no gender discrimination in Islam.

Gender equality overcoming pervasive gender bias

28 Anker and others, Gender based occupational segregation in the 1990s, International Labour Organization Working Paper No. 16.

The Territory enjoys a relatively high standard of living, with no visible signs of poverty or gender inequality.

A variety of tools such as gender disaggregated data, gender analysis, gender responsive budgeting, gender sensitive monitoring and evaluation systems and gender sensitive indicators have proven useful.

F. Gender sensitivity training and gender mainstreaming

No information on gender allocations through country office programmes is centrally available and while it is relatively easy to identify and quantify expenditures on programmes specifically targeted to women' or gender', UNDP methodologies preclude estimating the expenditures on programmes that include attention to gender mainstreaming.

Kazakhstan introduced classes on gender equality into higher education, including foundations of gender theory, anthology of gender research and sociology of gender.

Interministerial Plan of Action on Gender Mainstreaming 1998 2002 (Parliamentary Papers, House of Representatives 1998 1999, 26206, no 11).

Gender justice can no longer be bargained away as a soft chip for realizing other political and operational gains.

Effective gender mainstreaming requires in house gender expertise.

20 P. Paul Majumder and A. Begum, The gender imbalances in the export oriented garment industry in Bangladesh , research paper for the World Bank Policy Research, report on gender and development, No. 12 (2000).

In order to achieve gender equality in the field of education, Government has been promoting the application of gender mainstreaming strategy as mandated by Presidential Degree No. 9 of 2000 through the following measures

In El Salvador, the NHDR 2003, dedicated to gender, produced gender disaggregated data and gender analysis.

UNDP, Dying of Sadness Gender, Sexual Violence and the HIV Epidemic, SEPED Conference Paper Series No. 1, (2002), p. 4.

The new law would contain no such gender discrimination. Nor would there be any bias in the naturalization of children.