Engendering Development and Humanitarian Assistance Organizations: An Action and Learning Initiative

摘要

The initiative has focused on technical assistance, training, and dissemination of best practices and lessons learned to improve the capacity of InterAction member PVOs to deliver gender sensitive programming. Specifically, the program has aimed to enable InterAction members to implement the Gender Equity Amendments to the InterAction PVO Standards, ratified by InterAction members in May 1996, which mandate adoption of gender-sensitive programming approaches. The program was directed and implemented by InterActions Commission on the Advancement of Women (CAW). It is important to note that InterActions initiative not only strengthened the PVOs programming strategies, but also leveraged additional resources to supplement US AIDs contribution. In the technical assistance provided by the CAW, PVOs on the average contributed $2.45 dollars for each dollar from the Cooperative Agreement and 4.5 hours of their staff time for each hour of CAW time. This report provides an overview of the program activities, assesses the outcomes, and presents an analysis of program findings that are applicable to the overall field of gender integration or gender mainstreaming. As an action and learning initiative, the programs emphasis was on implementing a range of gender integration strategies and assessing their effectiveness in terms of how successfully the strategies led to improvements in member organizations integration of gender in programming. An assessment of field impact was beyond the scope of the program.