To advocate gender equality and the empowerment of women, UNDP China partners with institutions, bilateral/multilateral donors, international and civil society organizations and the private sector that have helped to emphasize gender equality as not just a priority for development, but that as a practice that can effect change in people’s lives.
Wenchuan earthquake early recovery programme is the introduction of participatory vulnerability analysis (PVA) used to help local communities identify the needs and challenges of vulnerable social groups, including women, and how to most effectively respond to and mitigate future risks towards rebuilding and strengthening their homes. As a tripartite partnership between UNDP, All China Women’s Federation (ACWF) and ActionAid International, this programme launched a series of workshops to train village level officials and local ACWF branches to apply PVA methodologies to identify risk and vulnerabilities in their communities. By engaging across sectors and across themes, this programme ensures a more resilient community that is not only equipped to deal with future disasters, but is able to do so in a gender sensitive way, ensuring that the needs of vulnerable women are not left in the wake, but are strongly embedded in the infrastructure. In this way, partnerships not only catalyze change, but also stimulate progress.
UNDP China has also developed innovative partnerships in order to both highlight the need for cooperation and collaboration to combat HIV/AIDS, and to signify the importance of gender identity to such interventions. UNDP brought together over 50 small business owners three condom companies, and four MSM community groups to discuss their roles and areas of support in responding to AIDS. These meetings also enjoyed the participation of public health institutions as well as care and support groups to further address some of the key concerns for this population. As a result, the China MSM Business Owner Cooperation Network was established with a task force of 10 volunteers from different sectors formed in order to ensure the sustainability of this initiative. The subsequent meetings that were held brought together over 100 participants from different levels of the Centers for Disease Control (CDCs), international organizations such as the Gates Foundation and International AIDS Alliance, the UN Technical Working Group on MSM and HIV, and community MSM groups. To date, these have been the largest MSM meetings in China thus far. A key achievement from this conference was the creation of the China Tongzhi Health Forum, which provides an advocacy and resource platform for MSM communities to network and support each other.
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Making Gender Equality a Reality: UNDP and Gender
Making Gender Equality a Reality: UNDP and Gender illustrates how UNDP China is working for the realization of gender equality and women’s empowerment. It provides an overview of UNDP China’s comprehensive gender mainstreaming strategy and provides a snapshot on the practices and experiences on gender mainstreaming and empowerment in UNDP China programmes. The pamphlet shows how UNDP China engages in specific interventions that address the most pressing issues that lead to the empowerment of women, reduction of their vulnerabilities, building their leadership potential, and protecting their human rights.
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