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Focal Point 1	Gender Mainstreaming
Plenum 1.2	Panel-discussion: "Is Gender Equality a Global Utopia? Reflections on Gender Mainstreaming" (Part 2)

Thursday, 08.09.2005, 7.30-9.30 pm (Part 1: 5.45-6.45 pm)
Heinrich-Boell-Foundation Berlin, Germany
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| Panel Speakers

Barbara Unmüßig, Executive Board of the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Germany
Magdalena Sroda, Gov’t Plenipotentiary for Gender Equality, Poland
Brigitte Triems, German Women’s Council, Germany
Lise Bergh, State Secretary, Sweden
Josefa "Gigi" Francisco, DAWN, Philippines
Muthoni Wanyeki, FemNet, Kenya
Gina Vargas, Marcosur Feminist Network, Peru

Facilitator: Claudia v. Braunmühl

In the aftermath of the UN World Conference on Women in Beijing, women’s movements worldwide placed great hopes on gender mainstreaming as a tool for achieving gender equality. The concept of gender mainstreaming was completely radical. It intended to make its way into ministries, public institutions – as well as their programs and projects – as strategy, method, and programmatic goal. Nothing was safe from gender mainstreaming, it was claimed, for gender neutral policies – from personnel decisions to budget-planning – no longer existed.

On one hand, gender mainstreaming is and was associated with high expectations and various successes. On the other, the road to true gender equality and fundamental transformations in gender relations is still marked by resistance and many obstacles. Moreover, the concept of gender mainstreaming and what lies behind it remain complicated and accessible only to a small group of actors.

Questions that will be discussed on this panel following the presentation and commentary of the theses on gender mainstreaming, include:

What could and should gender mainstreaming achieve?
What experiences have been made with gender mainstreaming around the world?
What parallels but also differences are there in the North and South, at a local, national and international level?
In which policy areas and institutions has gender mainstreaming proven to be worthwhile? Which areas currently propose challenges?
How could and should gender mainstreaming include women and men as agents in making policies based on gender equality?
Where can one find support for gender mainstreaming? Where can we identify resistance? Which areas propose the greatest challenges?
What strategies allow for “best practices” to be used and resistance to be overcome?

| Papers

Barbara Unmüßig

Opening speech: "Femme Globale - Gender Perspectives in the 21st Century"

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Barbara Unmüßig

"Reflections on Gender Mainstreaming - Taking stock of a radical social-political concept ten years
after the Beijing World Conference on Women"

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Gigi Francisco Comments on the HBF’s paper on “Reflections on Gender Mainstreaming”
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Gigi Francisco "Why we CANNOT engender the WTO" - Powerpoint Presentation PPT
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