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Questionnaire
on lessons learned, progress & challenges to achieve the gender goals in
conflict-affected countries
Introduction
This questionnaire is designed to
gather information from organisations for the preparation of a research paper
that will examine the nexus between gender, conflict and development.
Specifically, the paper will explore the measures required to make progress on
the gender equality commitments and targets in the MDGs in conflict-affected
countries, with a particular focus on
All of the 8 MDGs have gender
dimensions. This paper is concerned with the specific commitments and targets
in the MDGs with direct and indirect implications for gender equality. This
includes:
· Eradication of gender disparities at all levels of education, with special emphasis on
primary levels of education and literacy among young people
·
Expansion of women’s share of waged employment in the non-agricultural
sector
· Full and productive employment
and decent work for all, including women and young people, as a target under
MDG 1
·
Improvements in maternal health through improved access to contraception, maternal
health services and HIV-AIDS prevention
· Universal access to reproductive
health as a target under MDG 5 (improving maternal health)
· Universal access to treatment
for HIV/AIDS for all who need it’ under MDG 6
·
Increase in the proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments
Responses
For all questions, respondents are
asked to provide as much detail as possible, including supporting data and full
information about interventions (such as number of beneficiaries of a project,
when the activities were carried out, any unintended consequences etc) wherever
possible to supplement their response. If there is information already written
about a related project or intervention, please send the document or link to
the document.
Please send your responses in either
English or French by 6th August
2010 latest to Ceri Hayes: cerihayes@gmail.com
THANK YOU! Your input is really
valued and will be credited in the final research paper. We will send you a
copy of the paper when it is finalised.
Your organisation
Please provide below a short summary of your
organisation’s work, including where you work (which country, urban or rural
area, size of organisation etc), who are the main beneficiaries, a brief
outline of the services and interventions you provide.
Gender & the MDGs: country
context
1.
Does your country have a national
MDG implementation plan? If so: does this plan integrate commitments set out in
key gender equality and women’s rights instruments, including Beijing Platform
for Action, CEDAW and the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and in national
development plans?
2.
On which MDGs has there been most
progress in your country and why? Have men and women benefited equally from
these gains?
3.
Which specific gender equality goals
and targets in your country have seen most progress and why? Please refer back
to the goals and targets listed on page 1. For each target please provide
information about the following measures of progress, wherever possible:
·
Adoption or reform of legislation
·
Better services for women (e.g
reproductive health, education)
·
Improved security
·
Increased access to justice
·
Positive changes in societal
attitudes towards women and their role
4.
Which groups have been most excluded
from the benefits of any progress on the gender equality targets in your
country?:
·
Women-headed households
·
Remote communities
·
Ethnic or religious minorities or
indigenous groups
·
Disabled
·
Girls/adolescents
· Other (please state)
5.
In which areas related to gender
equality has there been least progress? (Please refer to the list of MDG
commitments on page 1).
6.
What are the main obstacles to
achieving progress on gender equality commitments and targets in the MDGs (as
listed on page 1) in your country? (Please rank these in descending order of
importance, with 1 being the biggest challenge).
Conflict, Gender & the MDGs
7.
In what ways does conflict hinder
progress on gender equality in your country, particularly at local level?
Please rank in descending order of impact
on gender equality with 1 being the greatest impact. Please also give examples
wherever possible.
·
Marginalisation of women’s concerns
and voices
· Increased sexual and gender-based violence
·
Reduced access to basic resources
such as food and water
·
Internal displacement
disproportionally affecting women and girls
·
Loss of income from destruction of
livelihoods
·
Forced recruitment into militias
·
Absence of basic health and other
social services
·
Other (please state)
8.
What do women articulate as the key
security-related issues they face at community level?
9.
How widespread is gender-based
violence (GBV) in your country? Please provide national/local statistics if
possible.
10. What measures, if any, are in place to address GBV as
part of national or local MDG plans, development plans, poverty reduction
strategies etc? If none, what measures would you like to see put in place?
11. What other measures, if any, are necessary, to address
the issue of GBV at local and/or national level?
·
Improved access to justice
·
Changes in legislation
·
Training for police, judiciary,
peace-keepers
·
Improved co-ordination amongst
frontline service-providers such as health clinics, judiciary, police
· Informal justice mechanisms
·
Awareness-raising in communities
·
Other (please state)
12. What resources do women say they most need access to
(please prioritise in descending order of importance with 1 being the most
important) in your country:
·
Education
·
Water
·
Fuel
·
Health
·
Food
·
Land
·
Housing
·
Credit
·
Affordable contraception
· Other (please state)
13. What are the obstacles to increasing their access to
these resources? Again, please rank these by listing the obstacles in
descending order of impact, with the biggest obstacles being ranked as 1.
Please give tangible examples where possible.
·
Physical
·
Cultural
·
Economic
·
Social
·
Political
·
Legal
14. Can you name any infrastructure investments/improvements
provided by the state or other agencies at national or local level that have
directly improved women’s access to services or resources? Please give details.
If so, were women able to participate in the design and provision of this
infrastructure?
15. Please provide detailed
examples of how women in conflict-affected communities in your country are
participating in development and peace-building processes at community and/or national level. In
each case please explain:
·
The obstacles they encountered
·
The enabling factors
·
The impact of the intervention or project
·
How they adapted these interventions
to respond to and offset the specific challenges of conflict e.g restricted
mobility due to fear of abduction or sexual violence.
We are specifically interested in examples of:
A. Women as advocates
(for example, how is their voice being heard in decision-making processes, such
as formal and informal peace-building processes)
B. Women as watchdogs
(for example, monitoring political processes at local/national level,
implementation of peace accords, development plans, legislation, promoting
gender-budgets to monitor how public resources are allocated and spent etc)
C. Women as development actors
(for example, participating in or leading the delivery of aid and community
development projects around increasing women’s access to land, to labour
markets, to reproductive health, to income-generation)
Role of the international community
16. What support do you think DFID and other donors should
provide to accelerate progress on the gender equality goals and indicators
specifically in conflict-affected countries? Which of these interventions do
you think is the most important?
·
Support development and
implementation of National Action Plans on UN Security Council Resolutions 1325
(women, peace & security) and 1820 (sexual violence in conflict)
·
Support governments to develop and
implement gender-responsive budgeting
·
Increase funding provided directly
to NGOs and particularly women’s organisations to increase the attention they
pay to gender perspectives in their work to accelerate progress on MDGs in
conflict-affected countries
·
Take a lead in encouraging development
partners
·
Other (please state)
17. How should their approach differ to the support they give for countries that are not affected by conflict?
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