Gender equality is created where decisions are made, so it is crucial that any draft proposal or other decision-making material takes gender into account. In the presentations below you will find out what you can do as a local goverment official or an elected official to ensure that draft proposals.
If you are part of an ICLD programme and interested in applying this method, we suggest you conduct the method early on with your team as part of your ICLD project’s action plan for year 1 or within an ICLD network workshop to receive input from your peers.
If you are interested in finding out more about gender budgeting and why it it key to ensure your local government lives up to human rights, take another online course available at learn.icld.se called: “Human rights budgeting and corruption in local governance“
If you are a local government official tasked to gender mainstream draft proposals, this five-step guide is designed to support you.
Are you an elected local government official in a decision-making position? Then the 5-step checklist below is for you! Its purpose is to support you in determining if draft proposals or other decision-making materials provide you with the information needed to make gender-equal decisions within your local government.