Activity 4 Strategies for introducing Gender Mainstreaming • Make a brief introduction as set out below Political or administrative leadership will not voluntarily introduce gender mainstreaming into an institution or a country. Gender mainstreaming was introduced due to the influence made for a long time by the women’s movements of the countries specially the Scandinavian countries which adopt that process. • • • • Ask the participants to make four small groups from among them, which consist of members that do similar occupations (Eg. Non-governmental organizations, administrative sector, education sector) Give time (10 – 12 minutes) to discuss the strategies which should planned before gender mainstreaming is introduced into the activities of a non-governmental organization, government office, political party and a university as per each job in them. Write the strategies discussed by small groups in a flip chart and display such to the participants. Introduce the common strategies using the slide below. Slide • Being informed about gender having established small groups of women within an institution. • Providing an understanding on gender to the members of the institution by analysing the situation in the institution from a gender point of view (eg: resources, promotions, assigning work) • Identifying problems and differences. Organising strong a group of informed persons within the institution • Mainstreaming o Influencing decision makers to introduce gender mainstreaming be introduced under the guidance of the aforesaid group o Providing the knowledge and training required for commencing the process of mainstreaming o Establishing a special group to monitor and evaluate the mainstreaming process once commenced. (Gender Unit, Gender Focal Point) 67