Gender Equality Strategy and Action Plan

The Gender Equality Strategy and Action Plan is a national cross-sectoral strategy and action plan of Georgia. Its main goal is to implement the state policy on gender equality and support its integration into the activities of the Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees of Georgia.
Among others, it provides to set up institutional mechanism for gender equality in the Ministry system and ensure its efficient functioning and to promote gender equality principles in its activities; to promote creation of the environment in the Ministry system based on the principle of gender equality (including training of its employees and increasing their awareness on the issues of women’s rights and gender equality); to ensure the implementation of the Ministry’s international obligations under the legislation and commitments in the field of gender equality, within its competence; to improve transparency of the Ministry’s activities in compliance with the communication strategy; to establish close collaboration with non-governmental sector, international and local organizations working on relevant issues in the process of discussing the issues of gender equality; to promote identification of sexual harassment or any other forms of discrimination in the system of the Ministry within its competence and to react adequately; to ensure implementation of internal survey and analysis on the issues of gender equality in the Ministry system and in compliance with the analysis to implement gender budgeting in the process of budget planning of the ministry; 1. To set up institutional system, promoting gender equality in the Ministry from April 2017, which is expressed through creating a position of an Advisor to the Minister on gender issues in the central office of the Ministry and in the territorial bodies – appointing contact persons on gender issues; 2. To ensure efficient functioning of the Commission on Gender Equality Issues set up in the Ministry in order to coordinate implementation of this Strategy and the Action Plan; to promote the competence of the Ministry high-rank officials and employees in the field of gender analysis, gender-sensitive planning, monitoring and evaluation; to arrange educational/informational measures for the Ministry employees on the issues of women’s rights and gender equality; to implement the commitments stipulated in the National Action Plan on the Measures to be implemented for Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence and Protection of Victims/Survivors; to implement the UN Security Council Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security and commitments stipulated in National Action Plan and commitments stipulated in Gender Equality National Action Plan; to provide public with regularly updated information about gender issues, progress of gender-sensitive strategies and the outcomes according to the communications strategy of the Ministry; to involve the representatives of the civil society in the implementation and monitoring process of the Strategy for Gender Equality and the Action Plan, including through development and implementing joint measures; to create an effective policy against sexual harassment and relevant appeals handling mechanism in the Ministry and to increase the employees’ awareness in this regard; to plan the strategies, programs and projects developed by the Ministry in the light of gender needs and analysis, which will reflect diversity of needs and priorities of women, men, boys and girls; and to process the information from gender perspective, to implement the regular collection of gender- disaggregated data and analysis system in the Ministry.