Strengthened, accountable, and gender-responsive law and justice system

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Strengthened, accountable, and gender-responsive law and justice system

INDICATOR(S)

• Evidence that new laws passed to protect women’s rights and discourage violence against women and children are known by law enforcers, understood, and implemented

Strengthened capacity to develop and analyze gender-responsive budgets

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Strengthened capacity to develop and analyze gender-responsive budgets

INDICATOR(S)

• Number of ministries that undertake a gender-responsive budget analysis, or have mechanisms for tracking budget allocations and expenditures for programs targeted at women

Sexual harassment and other types of discrimination addressed in the workplace

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Sexual harassment and other types of discrimination addressed in the workplace

INDICATOR(S)

• Number of women and men, including those with disabilities, who report sexual harassment or workplace discrimination in the public sector annually

Sexual harassment and other types of discrimination addressed in the workplace

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Sexual harassment and other types of discrimination addressed in the workplace

INDICATOR(S)

• Evidence that antidiscrimination, equal opportunity and sexual harassment laws and policies are implemented in the public sector workplace

Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights

INDICATOR(S)

• Law allowing free expression of sexuality or absence of law prohibiting homosexuality

Increased women's economic empowerment (WEE)

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increased women's economic empowerment (WEE)

INDICATOR(S)

• Women’s access to property other than land (index)

Increased support for women to take up leadership roles in local governance structures

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increased support for women to take up leadership roles in local governance structures

INDICATOR(S)

• Evidence of changed attitudes (among women and men) about the right of women to vote and stand for election

Increased employment of women in law and justice sector agencies

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increased employment of women in law and justice sector agencies

INDICATOR(S)

• Number of female police and other security sector personnel who report sexual harassment and violence in the workplace

Increased community awareness of women's rights and capacities

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increased community awareness of women's rights and capacities

INDICATOR(S)

• Evidence of changes in attitudes of women and men (including youth) on appropriate roles for women and their right to participate in governance and public administration

Increase in women's economic empowerment (WEE)

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increase in women's economic empowerment (WEE)

INDICATOR(S)

• Law establishing the necessity of workplace-based child care

• Law prohibiting employment discrimination based on pregnancy status

• Law recognizing the right for men and women to take parental leave without losing one’s job

• Law recognizing the right of both women and men to open a bank account in one’s own name

• Law recognizing the right of women to register a company in one’ owns name without co-signature of husband

• Law recognizing women’s right to take a work break to breastfeed

• Law recognizing women's rights for similar remuneration for equal work

• Laws providing for paid parental leave

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 improve prevention of or response to sexual and gender-based violence 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 improve prevention of and response to sexual and gender-based violence at the national or sub-national level.

Gender-based violence (GBV) is an umbrella term for any harmful act that is perpetrated against a person’s will, and that is based on socially ascribed gender norms and roles. Forms of gender-based violence include, but are not limited to, domestic or intimate partner violence; rape as a weapon of war; sexual violence and abuse; female infanticide; psychological or emotional abuse; sexual harassment or violence in the workplace or in educational institutions; harmful traditional practices including female genital mutilation/cutting, honor crimes, early marriage, forced marriage, bride kidnapping, and dowry-related violence; and violence based on sexual orientation or gender identity (SOGI).

To be counted, the legal instrument should address an aspect of the country’s efforts to combat GBV, for example by spelling out individuals’ rights to be free from violence in the public and/or private spheres; presenting a National Action Plan, strategy, or stand-alone law designed to address GBV; proposing or strengthening procedures to prevent, punish or eradicate gender-based violence; making provisions for new or increased services to victims of violence; proposing new legal remedies for addressing GBV such as the use of restraining orders or establishing new legal procedures that allow for the provision of services by NGOs.

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.

Increased equitable access to justice by women and men

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increased equitable access to justice by women and men

INDICATOR(S)

• Conviction rates for crimes of violence against women and children, compared with rates for all crimes

Increased equitable access to justice by women and men

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increased equitable access to justice by women and men

INDICATOR(S)

• Analysis of sentencing for crimes of violence against women and children, compared with other criminal cases, including landmark cases and precedent-setting judgments

Increased equitable access to justice by women and men

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Increased equitable access to justice by women and men

INDICATOR(S)

• Percentage of male and female village or custom court magistrates trained in gender-based violence, gender equality, and women’s rights in property and family law, and the legal obligation to refer cases to police where customary law conflicts with formal law

Employment-related laws are reformed to comply with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and enforced

GENDER EQUALITY RESULT

Employment-related laws are reformed to comply with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and enforced

INDICATOR(S)

• Evidence that legislation prohibiting discriminatory employment practices is in place and enforced (including laws that restrict women’s work at night or in specific occupations, protect pregnant women from discrimination, and protect the rights of people with disability to decent work)

• Perceptions of poor women and men on discriminatory practices at work and the enforcement of legislation