SHD from a Gender Perspective: A Critical Operational Intervention
Description
The UNDP Governors’ Platform for Action and Monitoring” (PFAAM) Project, co-funded by DANIDA, aimed to enhance decision making processes within Egypt’s 26 governorates. Through a series of high level meetings and seminars at different regional and sub-regional levels and using participatory methods the project should enable governors and administrators to find solutions to development problems in their respective localities. The project also initiated pilot activities to test approaches to reduce rural-urban and gender gaps. One result sought was to decentralize decision-making power and enable the development of policies, which more adequately suit the development needs of local people .
The project was successful in forming a “Governors’ Platform for Action and Monitoring” (PFAAM), established with UNDP assistance in connection with the first Egyptian HDR (Human Development Report) in 1994. Egypt’s Inter-Governorates SHD platform for Action and Monitoring Project (PFAAM) was carried out in co-operation with NGOs in Egypt. It presents an inter-regional framework for the purpose of operationalizing Sustainable Human Development (SHD). It focuses on minimizing the socio-economic disparities existing between and within Egypt’s governorates and on cementing and institutionalizing participatory development processes among Egypt’s 26 Governorates. UNDP decided to further support the SHD/PFAAM process by responding to the need of initiating a critical operational intervention in the field of women’s empowerment.
Services
NSCE offered an optimum way to develop a gender mainstreaming capacity in the local government system through building a strategic link between the policymaking level represented by the Governors’ round table and the piloting of solutions for women empowerment approaches at the governorate and grass root level. In charge of the sector analysis, consultation with the key actors, development in a participatory way of the project document and follow up the institutional set up issues.