Documents and Training Materials on Gender Mainstreaming

UNDP Gender Mainstreaming Learning Manual
http://www.undp.org/women/infopack.shtml

The UNDP learning and information pack on gender mainstreaming.  Includes a gender mainstreaming glossary and documents on strategy development, advocacy, and information, communication and knowledge sharing.

Gender Mainstreaming conceptual framework, methodology and presentation of good practices - Final Report of Activities of the Group of Specialists on Mainstreaming
Council of Europe, EG (1999) 3
http://www.coe.int/t/e/human_rights/equality/02._gender_mainstreaming/099_EG(1999)03.asp#TopOfPage

A report published by the Council of Europe that discusses how gender mainstreaming can be facilitated and provides examples of good practices.

Accelerating Change: Resources for Gender Mainstreaming
Canadian International Development Agency
2000
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/INET/IMAGES.NSF/vLUImages/Policy/$file/Accchange-E.pdf

An article examining and explaining "the expansion of the EU equal opportunities agenda, focusing primarily on the potentially revolutionary, yet little-studied, principle of gender mainstreaming."

Not Waving but Drowning: Gender Mainstreaming and Human Rights in the United Nations
by Hilary Charlesworth
Harvard Human Rights Journal
2005
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/hrj/iss18/charlesworth.shtml

An academic article that seeks "to question the rather bland, bureaucratic acceptance of the method of gender mainstreaming in international institutions and to suggest that it detracts attention from the ways that sexed and gendered inequalities are woven into the international system."

Gender Mainstreaming: Making It Happen
by Rekha Mehra and Geeta Rao Gupta
February 2006
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGENDER/Resources/MehraGuptaGenderMainstreamingMakingItHappen.pdf

"Gender mainstreaming is at critical cross-roads right now. Many early supporters are disillusioned with the way it has worked so far and are beginning to feel that it has failed. This paper argues that it may be too soon to pass judgment because from the perspective of a development agency, the most critical element of mainstreaming – mainstreaming in operations – has not yet been seriously attempted. Implementation has focused solely on internal organizational dimensions, such as staffing, policies, developing indicators, and training of all staff, which are often interpreted as preconditions or precursors to interventions at the operational level.1 This paper asserts that although mainstreaming gender in operations requires some of those organizational elements, it does not have to wait for all those changes to be implemented. It can begin in an entrepreneurial and strategic way and show success in small measures so as to gain credibility."

Gender Mainstreaming: Can it Work for Women’s Rights?
AWID
November 2004
http://www.wwda.org.au/genmainstream1.pdf

"AWID chose to put together this [document] in order to stimulate debate on how gender mainstreaming is understood, its impact and what we need to do about it.Has gender mainstreaming worked in some institutions, sectors or regions? What is its potential? Where has it met pitfalls? Can it be used effectively to bring about meaningful institutional and policy changes that protect women’s economic rights?"