Gender Mainstreaming
- Gender mainstreaming refers to the process of ensuring that women and men have equal access to and control over resources, development benefits and decision-making at all stages of development processes, projects, programmes or policies.
- It has following goals:
- Social Inclusion: The removal of institutional barriers and the enhancement of access and representation of diverse individuals and ground to function and to engage, influence and hold accountable institutions for their development and benefit sharing.
- Removing psychological barriers: Stereotype and mal practices related to caste, culture, age, religion, disability related
- Removing institutional barriers: Barriers related to civil societies, public and private sector, underlying socio-cultural institution, values and code of behaviors.