"Gender mainstreaming is the public policy concept of assessing the implications for people of different genders of a planned policy action, including legislation and programs."
It involves integrating gender perspectives and promoting gender equality and women's empowerment in all aspects of peacekeeping and humanitarian operations.
Gender Analysis: The systematic examination of gender roles, relationships and inequalities to understand how they impact individuals and communities.
Gender Mainstreaming: The process of integrating a gender perspective into all aspects of policy, programming, and practice.
Gender Equality: The principle of treating individuals equally regardless of their gender identification or expression.
Intersectionality: The understanding that individuals may experience multiple forms of discrimination and oppression based on their gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, disability, and other identities.
Intimate Partner Violence: The physical, sexual, or emotional abuse or coercion that occurs within a romantic or intimate relationship.
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Acts of violence, including but not limited to rape, sexual assault, sexual exploitation and abuse, forced prostitution, and sexual harassment, that are committed against individuals on the basis of their gender.
Gender and Conflict: The relationship between gender and the causes, dynamics, and consequences of armed conflict and the implications for peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction.
Gender and Security Sector Reform: The integration of gender perspectives into security sector reform to ensure that security policies, procedures, and practices are gender-sensitive and promote gender equality.
Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction: The integration of gender perspectives into disaster risk reduction policies and practices to ensure that the needs and priorities of women and girls are addressed in emergency planning and response.
Gender and Humanitarian Response: The integration of gender perspectives into humanitarian response to ensure that the needs and priorities of women, girls, and other marginalized populations are addressed in emergency planning, response, and recovery.
Gender analysis: A systematic and comprehensive assessment of gender roles, relationships, and inequalities in a given context or situation.
Gender-sensitive planning: Incorporating gender perspectives into the planning, design, and implementation of programs, policies, and activities to ensure that they respond to the diverse needs and interests of women, men, girls, and boys.
Gender-responsive budgeting: Assessing the gender implications of budget policies, allocating resources to address gender inequalities, and monitoring and evaluating the impact of spending on gender equality.
Gender-disaggregated data collection and analysis: Collecting data on women's and men's participation, needs, and preferences to inform policy and program development, and to monitor and evaluate gender equality outcomes.
Gender mainstreaming in conflict analysis and resolution: Examining gender dynamics, including women's roles and experiences, in conflict analysis and designing conflict resolution strategies that take into account women's participation and rights.
Gender mainstreaming in humanitarian response: Ensuring that humanitarian response initiatives are informed by gender analysis and that they respond to gender-based violence and other gender-specific needs.
Capacity building and training: Building the capacity of policy makers, program implementers, frontline humanitarian workers, security forces, and others to apply gender mainstreaming approaches in their work.
"The concept of gender mainstreaming was first proposed at the 1985 Third World Conference on Women."
"Gender mainstreaming has subsequently been pushed in the United Nations development community."
"Mainstreaming offers a pluralistic approach that values the diversity among people of different genders."
"The idea was formally featured in 1995 at the Fourth World Conference on Women."
"The idea was cited in the document that resulted from the conference, the Beijing Platform for Action."