Sentence examples for gender sensitive policy from inspiring English sources

At an international level the WHO supports gender sensitive policy making in health [ 30].

South Africa has a constitution which promotes gender equity and it has policies aimed at enabling gender sensitive policy making [ 31, 33, 51].

This reflects previous literature which describes the difficulties around the national gender machinery in ensuring and enabling gender sensitive policy [ 32].

However, as one informant suggested, the South African context may still be that of patriarchy and within this context the process of enabling gender sensitive policy making is failing.

The Director General NCHD Mr. Zulfiqar Ahmad in his address said that the Government of Pakistan has endorsed global mandate on gender equity for advancing the concept of "gender mainstreaming", which promotes integration of gender sensitive policy strategies into national development policies and programs at all levels.

The 1995 Beijing Platform for Action provides us with a clear and politically driven agreement to act to end discrimination, assert and define rights, challenge patriarchal institutions, and bring some coherence to gender sensitive policies, and economic and social policies.

The 1995 constitution of Ethiopia has put in place gender sensitive policies and proclamations that granted women to acquire, administer, control, use and transfer and inherit land (FDRE 1995; Hadera 2002; Hussein 2014), despite some of the limitations.

The Timorese Ministry of Health has commenced the "Promotion of Equality Strategy" [ 15] to support gender sensitive policies.

The active engagement of women in a specified gender-sensitive policy framework during disasters would also help women deal with the factors of vulnerability that prevent them from attaining the targets of the MDGs.

The plan comes on the heels of other gender-sensitive policy changes, notes UN Women Representative in Albania, David Saunders.

In order to make such a gender-sensitive policy, home and school environment a reality, the MoESC should have a substantive budget and human resource allocation rather than depending solely on donor-driven initiatives and funding.