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Gender
WFP's
Commitments to Women
Commitment
I: Provide direct access to appropriate and adequate food.
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Target
relief food distributions to households, ensuring that women control
the family entitlement in 80 percent of WFP handled and
subcontracted operations.
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Address
micronutrient deficiencies of certain vulnerable groups of women,
children and adolescents; and consider local eating and cooking
habits in all operations.
Commitment
II: Take measures to ensure women’s equal access to and full
participation in power structures and decision making.
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Ensure
a lead role of women within all local decision-making committees on
food management and in the management of the assets created by
food-for-work projects.
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Contribute
to the UN goal of reaching gender equity by the year 2001,
particularly in higher management positions.
Commitment
III: Take positive action to facilitate women’s equal access to
resources, employment, markets and trade.
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Target
60% of country programme resources to women and girls in those
countries where gender statistics demonstrate a 25 percentage point
disadvantage (gender gap) for women compared with men.
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Target
50 % of education resources within a country programme to girls.
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At
least 25 % of project outputs/ assets created with Food-For-Work are to be of
direct benefit to and controlled by women; and at least 25 % of
generated funds are to be invested in activities aimed at the
advancement of women.
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Use
food aid as a leverage to obtain complementary national and
international resources to improve the condition of women.
Commitment
IV: Generate and disseminate gender-disaggregated data and information
for planning and evaluation.
All
WFP Monitoring and Reporting will specify:
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percentage
share of resources received from food distribution by men/women;
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percentage
share of benefits by category of activities by men/women; and
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percentage
of positions held by women in the management of food distribution.
Commitment
V: Improve accountability on actions taken.
Commitments
to women
Excerpts
from speeches by Catherine Bertini, Executive-Director
of
the United Nations World Food Programme
International
Women's Day 2000
WFP
Working With Women (brochure)
Adolescent
Girls in Tribal ICDS (publication)
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