Action Plan to Integrate Gender in
Infrastructure in East African
Region
MDB-Sponsored Regional Workshops to Mainstream Gender
Equality in Infrastructure Policies and Projects
Africa Regional Workshop, Addis Ababa
Big number of participants, and gender-balanced
representation, active participation of all (Ethiopia, Uganda,
Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Saudi Arabia)
Regional Action Plan
• Vision: Gender equality and
empowerment of women in
infrastructure in the East
Africa Region
Through actions in the following
areas:
• Policy level
• Institutional level
• Project level
Method
Divided big group by sectors
(transport, irrigation,
energy, WATSAN)
Examined opportunities for
collective regional AND
national action
This report focuses on a set
of common agreed actions
to be taken and tools to be
applied on the regional
level
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Policy Actions
Policy Actions
• Regional gender audit of sector policies,
institutions, and screening of projects
(gender resources (human and financial, and
knowledge, e.g. guidelines) utilizing, where
existing, regional platforms (eg AMCOW)
• Implementation of CEDAW and AMCOW (and
national constitutions and policies… that are
already in place)
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Institutional Action
Institutional Action
• Establishing or strengthening
gender focal point systems and
developing linkages with
MoG/Women’s affairs
• Developing a regional gender
disaggregated database
• Considering including genderrelated responsibilities in
Performance Contracts
• Training of senior manager
and feed back with lessons,
learned from this workshop
• Monitoring and evaluation of
existing strategic plans
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Institutional Action (cont)
• Increasing the human resource base
(especially women in infrastructurerelated training), and seeking to
integrate gender in curricula of
technical education
• Affirmative action to allow more
women to join infrastructure / technical
courses
• Establish a virtual network of
practitioners on gender and
infrastructure
• Awareness creation among sector
players
• Sub/Regional workshop in March 2012
to follow-up on this action plan
Project Action
Project Actions
• Awareness creation so that men to
support women to benefit equitably
from projects
• Integrating gender in bidding
documents, considering earmarking
funds for specific activities
• Undertake gender screening in AT
LEAST one project in each sector
per country
• Analysis of gender in value chain for
projects in irrigation
• Gender-disaggregated data for
results and evidence-based policy
dialogue
Country Acvtivities
Policy
Institutions
Irrigation
WatSan
Transport
Energy
Equal access to land is needed
Gender audit of policies
Gender audit of WATSAN policies
Countries not having policy to use
the audit to develop strategies
Policies in place – no need for action
Saudi Arabia needs a policy
All countries have policies
Kenya did an audit, but others have not
– all countries should audit policies,
perhaps combined
Strengthening gender dept of ag
ministries and developing
linkages with MoG affairs
Developing a gender
disaggregated database
Baseline for water (Eth) – impact on
women and men
Building capacities for planning
Strengthening M&E in Uganda and
Kenya
Gender PC in Kenya
Gender audit of institutions
Gender audit still needed
Ministry in charge of gender
Gender/cross-cutting issues officers exist
(Rwanda, Ethiopia) but may need
strengthened capacities
Guidelines available in some countriesshould be available in all countries
Gender audit of institutions to see
gender-related gaps
Exchange experiences
Capacity building
Projects
Gender screen projects
Multiple uses of water
Capacity building along the value
chain (incl post harvesting,
market access, etc)
Capacity building of wo/men
Integrating gender in bidding documents
Recruitment / train More women staff
Affirmative action to allow more women
in courses
Awareness campaign targeting
men
Awareness creation among players,
constructors, etc, engineers, how do they
mainstream gender
Earmark funds for gender in projects
Gender in curriculum
Awareness of senior-level managers
for sensitization
Experience exchange on gender audit
(eg Kenya), using existing guid4elines
Bringing stakeholders together,
ministry, regulator, utilities, gender
Energy Network
Influencing private investors to commit
resources
Level-up countries that have not
started gm (eg Ethiopia)
Action-oriented case study research on
impact on bringing energy, water,
transport
Capacity building of gender desks
Developing strategies for gender
desdks
Developing tools and guidelines
Implementing policies and strategies
(for those who have developed)
Bring in other actors in the energy
sector to develop policies for gm
Gender-disaggregated data on projects
Identify projects to generate data
Sub-regional training on all the tools
we have been trained on here
Targeting girls for science-based
training
Indicators
• Nr of policy and institutional audits
undertaken by 2012 March
• Nr of projects screened by gender by March
2012
• Nr of Performance Contracts integrating
gender
• Number of countries with genderdisaggregated data
• Number of people trained on these tools
Thank you
Join us in East Africa towards Gender Equality in
Infrastructure!