The Gender Practice Area aims to contribute to the achievement of organizational goals on gender equality and women’s empowerment within the paradigm of human development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. In particular, it develops and strengthens gender skills of national and regional partners, and UNDP Country Offices to mainstream gender in their services, key policies and development results. By means of knowledge management, capacity development and South-South cooperation, it articulates, coordinates, develops and monitors several regional initiatives based on national experiences, technical expertise and best practices.
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Gender and Democratic Governance, including citizenship and new leaderships, state reform; gender mainstreaming and public policy; and gender and citizen security.
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Gender, Labour and Economy, including the care economy, poverty and human development; social protection systems; care organizations and policies; and production structures and equality in labour markets.
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Gender, integrated disaster risk management and climate change.
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Innovation, Knowledge Management and Communication for Gender Equality
Our work in the region
To achieve these objectives, the Practice Area has identified seven Service Strategies:
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Carry out or support the development and dissemination of new knowledge products and useful analyses of priority and/or emerging issues.
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Strengthening the América Latina Genera portal as a regional benchmark to disseminate, arrange, and systematize information and knowledge; create networks and synergies and build new knowledge.
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Develop internal and external capacities at regional and national levels for gender mainstreaming and/or integration.
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Provide on-demand technical and policy advice on gender in the region and country offices.
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Support interagency work on gender issues in the region.
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Implement and/or monitor the implementation of regional projects of the Gender Practice Area portfolio.
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Contribute to gender mainstreaming in other clusters or thematic and crosscutting areas in the Regional Centre in Panama, the Subregional Centre for the Caribbean in Trinidad and Tobago and Country Offices, observance of UNDP global and regional guidelines.
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