Increase in legal rights

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increase in legal rights

INDICATOR(S)

• Number of legal instruments drafted, proposed or adopted with (X agency's) assistance designed to promote gender equality or non-discrimination against women or girls at the national or sub-national level

Notes:

"Legal instrument" is meant broadly to include any official document issued by a government (e.g., law, policy, action plan, constitutional amendment, decree, strategy, regulation) designed to promote or strengthen gender equality or non-discrimination on the basis of sex at the national or sub-national level, which was drafted, proposed or adopted with X organization's assistance. This assistance could be targeted directly to the host government or to CSOs working on the legal instrument.

To be counted, the legal instrument should have as its objective or intent one or more of the following: reducing an aspect of social, economic, or political inequality between women and men, girls and boys; ensuring that women and men, girls and boys, have equal opportunities to benefit from and contribute to social, political, economic, and cultural development, to realize their human rights, or to have access to/control over resources necessary to survive and thrive; or preventing gender-related discrimination or compensating for past gender-related discrimination or historical disadvantage.