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Women in Development
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941-004CENTRAL OPERATING UNIT: Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade: Office of Women in Development (EGAT/WID)
PROGRAM TITLE: Women's Legal Rights
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE: Women's Legal Rights Increasingly Protected, 941-003
STATUS: Continuing
PLANNED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $3,020,000 DA
PROPOSED FY 2003 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $3,020,00 DA
INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 1995 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2003Summary: Gender-sensitive legislation and administrative practices, as well as credit and commercial policies, will help provide women with better tools to meet challenges posed by modernization and globalization. USAID's program addresses the following results:
- improving the quality of national and local legislation to protect women's rights;
- enhancing the capacity of the justice sector to enforce legislation and to practice in a more gender-equitable manner;
- strengthening the organizational capacity of civil society organizations to lobby more effectively for women's legal and social concerns; and
- increasing society's knowledge of, and receptivity to, women's legal, economic and political rights.
Inputs, Outputs and Activities: FY 2002 Program: In FY 2002, USAID will support efforts to promote gender-sensitive legal reform, strengthen women's property, inheritance and labor rights, educate judicial officials on gender issues, and respond appropriately to prevent gender-based violence and trafficking in human beings. Some of these will constitute new programs, while others will be implemented through continuation of on-going efforts in Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda) and Latin America (Mexico, El Salvador and Colombia).
Planned FY 2003 Program: USAID plans to use FY 2003 resources requested in this Budget Justification to continue with and expand the above activities to ensure that women's rights are protected through adequate legislative actions, impartial interpretation and enforcement of the law, effective advocacy by civil society organizations (particularly women's NGOs) and improved women's legal literacy.
Performance and Results: Though USAID originally planned seven (7) new communication vehicles (radio programs, faith-based information campaigns, community fora, etc.) in various countries dealing with women's legal and economic rights in the calendar year 2000, over 100 civil society organizations produced fifty-one (51) vehicles to protect and promote women's rights. In some countries, the percentage of women who better understand the system for legal redress has increased, and there has been an increase in numbers of individuals reporting gender-related violations of local laws. In Ghana, the publication of a training manual and handbook on domestic violence and nationwide training for the police service resulted in a 10% increase in the reporting of domestic violence cases. In northern Uganda, a new activity design serves as a model for other anti-trafficking interventions to re-integrate war-affected and abused women into their communities.
Principal Contractors, Grantees, or Agencies: Partners are Georgetown University Law Center; Partners of the Americas; Development Alternatives, Inc.; the International Organization for Migration; the American Center for International Labor Solidarity (ACILS); DePaul University; as well as new partners to be determined.
US Financing in Thousands of Dollars
941-003 Women's legal rights increasingly protected DA Through September 30, 2000 Obligations 13,958 Expenditures 10,429 Unliquidated 3,529 Fiscal Year 2001 Obligations 2,457 Expenditures 2,842 Through September 30, 2001 Obligations 16,415 Expenditures 13,271 Unliquidated 3,144 Prior Year Unobligated Funds Obligations 1,688 Planned Fiscal Year 2002 NOA Obligations 3,020 Total Planned Fiscal Year 2002 Obligations 4,708 Proposed Fiscal Year 2003 NOA Obligations 3,020 Future Obligations 3,020 Est. Total Cost 27,163
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