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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: Gender Consideration across the Agency
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE: Greater Reflection of Gender Considerations in the Agency's Work, 941-004
STATUS: Continuing
PLANNED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $3,200,000 DA
PROPOSED FY 2003 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $3,200,000 DA
INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 1995 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2003Summary: USAID's program for greater reflection of gender considerations in the Agency's work includes:
- building capacity, both within the Agency and with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other partners to address women's economic issues;
- incorporating gender more skillfully in the design and implementation of Agency programs;
- coordinating better with the international community; and
- increasing policy makers' understanding of the gender-based constraints to economic growth.
Inputs, Outputs and Activities: FY 2002 Program: USAID will provide technical expertise, training, and workshops to Agency staff to identify, address, and overcome barriers to women's economic empowerment. With the recent strengthening of Agency policy requirements for gender analysis and new mechanisms to provide ready access to services, the office anticipates increased opportunities for programmatic cooperation with other Agency units and increased requests for technical assistance. Funds will be used to: (1) conduct research on new and emerging issues (i.e. factors making women and children vulnerable to traffickers); (2) assist new sectors (telecommunications and HIV/AIDS); and (3) continue collaboration with other U.S. Government agencies, bilateral donors, multilateral agencies, policy coordination groups, private sector entities.
Planned FY 2003 Program: USAID plans to use FY 2003 resources requested in this Budget Justification to better meet the expected upsurge of opportunities/requests from USAID missions and potential new alliances/partnerships with the private sector. These resources will also permit analyses of foreign policy areas for which mission and private sector funds are limited, such as conflict prevention and resolution, and the physical and psychological suffering of women in Afghanistan or other war torn and depressed areas.
Review of Africa Bureau Strategic Objectives revealed that there is a high degree of gender integration across Missions, with greatest success in the Democracy and Governance (17), Health (15) and Economic Growth (12) sectors.
Performance and Results: Important outcomes of this program are increased awareness of gender issues and integration of gender into Agency policies, programs and activities. This program contributed directly to an accelerated
pace of equitable and sustainable social and economic development in countries where the Agency has a presence. The program staff became more proactive in identifying strategic opportunities to provide technical support, particularly for regional program design, activity planning, and gender integration in performance monitoring and evaluation. Results included: (1) assisting Guatemala and El Salvador to build gender integration skills among their partners implementing natural resource management activities; (2) participating in the design of USAID/Nepal's hydroelectric power strategic objective; and (3) providing a long-term advisor to the Indonesia Ministry of Planning to address differential impacts of the financial crisis on men and women.
Review of Africa Bureau Strategic Objectives revealed that there is a high degree of gender integration across Missions, with greatest success in the Democracy and Governance (17), Health (15) and Economic Growth (12) sectors. Principal Contractors, Grantees, or Agencies: Key partners are a consortium led by Development Alternatives, Inc.; Institute of International Education; The Asia Foundation; Mobility International; InterAction as well as new partners to be determined.
US Financing in Thousands of Dollars
941-004 Greater reflection of gender considerations in the Agency's work DA Through September 30, 2000 Obligations 39,040 Expenditures 35,596 Unliquidated 3,444 Fiscal Year 2001 Obligations 2,692 Expenditures 2,198 Through September 30, 2001 Obligations 41,732 Expenditures 37,794 Unliquidated 3,938 Prior Year Unobligated Funds Obligations 700 Planned Fiscal Year 2002 NOA Obligations 3,200 Total Planned Fiscal Year 2002 Obligations 3,900 Proposed Fiscal Year 2003 NOA Obligations 3,200 Future Obligations 3,200 Est. Total Cost 52,032
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