Political Party Guidelines Eng

To ensure that your party policy
agendas are gender mainstreamed
To ensure gender-sensitive training
is part of training within party;
mainstreaming of gender issues in
regular training activities for all
members
To ensure that your party’s activities
are organised in an inclusive
manner
• Assess the capacity of your party
to analyse public policy issues
from a gender perspective, organise
trainings if necessary
• Introduce gender-based analysis
and strategic issues concerning
rights of women and men, girls
and boys into your policy positions
• Ensure gender expertise is used
here for example by including
the WW members’ participation,
establishing a special work group
for this purpose and/or reach out
for civil society/academia experts
for input
• Develop gender-sensitive and
gender-specific training curricula,
accessible for women and
men within party
• Assess if the activities of the
political party are inclusive (time
and place of the activities, is
there a possibility for child-care
facilities, are there clear guidelines
and procedures to follow if
someone is sexually harassed)
• Assess the roles of men and
women in organising the meetings
(for example supportive role
or executive role)
• Take appropriate steps to ensure
the activities are organised in
inclusive manner
• Write guidelines to tackle sexual
harassment
• Consider nominating gender
focal persons to address for example
sexual harassment
• Gender-sensitive & gender-specific
initiatives pursued by your party as
part of your party’s electoral manifesto
• Gender-sensitive & gender-specific
initiatives pursued by your party after
gaining legislative representation
• Does your party engage in the systematic
outreach to women’s groups,
particularly those affected by specific
policy issues, during the policy
agenda formation process?
• Presence of gender-sensitive and
gender-specific training and development
initiatives within party
• Number of training courses on
women’s political empowerment
and gender equality; gender ratio of
participants
• Proportion of women attending the
party activities
• Steps taken to ensure that the party
activities are organised in inclusive
manner
• Gender focal points nominated
• Written guidelines on tackling sexual
harassment exist:
o a written and binding code of
conduct
o clear procedures and mechanisms
in cases of harassment
o focal points to whom those, who
have been harassed, can report
o means to report incidences
anonymously if need be
o support mechanisms for those,
who have been harassed
• Parity of talk exists in the activities
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