Gender Equality & Empowerment of Women

Equality between women and men, the elimination of any type of discrimination against women and the promotion of women’s rights are enshrined in a number of international conventions and commitments (CEDAW, the Beijing Platform for Action and the Sustainable Development Goals). They are fundamental values for many countries and international organisations around the world. However, despite the advances achieved in gender equality over the last decades, gender gaps still remain

Mainstreaming gender equality in development actions implies addressing gender inequality. It means:

Conducting gender analysis

highlighting asymmetries in terms of the relative distribution of resources, opportunities, constraints and power within a given context

Taking into account the differences

regarding priorities, interests and needs of both sexes

Involving women and men equally in setting goals and plans

to ensure development objectives are gender-sensitive

To tackle the existing challenges and support countries to integrate Gender Equality concepts, GlobalCAD provides gender sensitive advisory services and develops methodologies and tools tailored to the needs of different actors, such as governments, companies or international organizations.

GlobalCAD has created an inter-area gender working group to guarantee the integration of gender sensitivity into all of GlobalCAD’s projects. The working group also carries out internal capacity building to train all consultants on gender awareness.

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Gender equality and the economic and political empowerment of women are essential to achieving better development outcomes in terms of inclusive growth and poverty reduction
GlobalCAD is committed to making the gender aspect a cross-cutting theme that penetrates all areas

Women’s Empowerment services offered by GlobalCAD

Service Nº1

ORGANISATIONAL STRENGTHENING AND CAPACITY BUILDING FOR GENDER MAINSTREAMING

GlobalCAD provides advisory services and accompaniment to governments, companies and international organizations to strengthen institutional capacity for mainstreaming gender within all institutional areas; improve policy development, procedures and methodologies for program implementation and overall management with a gender perspective; and integrate gender equality and promote women’s empowerment in their external actions.

GlobalCAD also designs training programs to promote gender equality as a mainstream topic in the formulation, planning, implementation and evaluation of programs through action-oriented tools that encourage skills and knowledge learning. These trainings are adapted to the audience and can be provided both online and face-to-face.

Service Nº2

WOMEN'S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

GlobalCAD’s experts in gender have significant experience gained over many years in researching women’s participation in labor markets and the quality of their employment. Our experts design and implement programs that look to promote equal opportunities between women and men in the labor market; they assess enterprises on their development of equality policies and their plans to address the eradication of gender discrimination and to promote equal opportunities between women and men. They also have experience of working with women at risk of exclusion because of their socio-economic background. Our gender experts have a proven track record of developing tools and instruments to ingrain gender as a mainstream topic in projects and programs.

Service Nº3

RESEARCH ON GENDER ISSUES

GlobalCAD’s experts use a combination of qualitative and quantitative data collection methods (fieldwork, participative observation, collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, etc.) to acknowledge the different priorities, needs and constraints that women and men have. GlobalCAD conducts as well studies with a gender approach, including on country or sector profiles and on specific gender issues.

Service Nº4

GENDER-SENSITIVE MONITORING AND EVALUATION

GlobalCAD develops gender-sensitive monitoring and evaluation systems, which includes collecting and presenting data split between sexes. GlobalCAD also carries out gender-focused baseline surveys, methodologies and tools (gender impact matrix, including gender-sensitive indicators and means of verification).

In addition, GlobalCAD offers techniques to measure to what extent gender equality objectives are met and the changes in gender relations that have been achieved. Comparative studies and identification of good practices and lessons learned have also been carried out.

GlobalCAD is committed to make the gender aspect a cross cutting theme that infiltrates all areas