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CONCEPT NOTE

INSTITUTIONALISING GENDER MAINSTREAMING IN PARLIAMENT:

Participatory Gender Audits and Gender Action Plans

Joint Web Dialogue event by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights

(OSCE/ODIHR) and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA)

Online // Tuesday, 24 January 2023, 10.00-12.00 CET

BACKGROUND

Modern societies have recognized that gender inequality — demonstrated across a range of

social, economic, cultural and political indicators — remains a fundamental impediment to

progress and prosperity. This long-standing recognition is evidenced in the 1991 OSCE

Moscow Document, which states:

“full and true equality between men and women is a

fundamental aspect of a just and democratic society based on the rule of law. [Participating

States] recognize that the full development of society and the welfare of all its members

require equal opportunity for full and equal participation of men and women.”

National parliaments of the OSCE region have a unique role to play in the gradual

transformation towards gender equality of our societies. National parliaments are well placed

to champion the objective of gender equality and promote gender mainstreaming, by

responding to the needs and interests of both men and women in their composition,

structures, operations, working methods, and day-to-day work. Parliaments are also

responsible for producing gender-responsive policy outcomes, through decision-making and

the adoption of documents within the competence of the parliaments, or indirectly through

gender-sensitive oversight of the performance of the executive.

In the ensuing decade, the concept of ‘gender-sensitive parliaments’ (GSP) has become the

clearest expression of parliaments’ responsibility to promote and achieve gender equality.

International parliamentary organizations such as the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) have

been at the forefront of these efforts, having produced an evidence base as well as political

texts that encourage further action in support of gender sensitivity around the world.

The

“Document of the Moscow Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE”, 3 October

1991. Available at https://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/14310.

IPU,

Gender-Sensitive Parliaments: A Global Review of Good Practice

(Geneva: IPU, 2011); CPA,

Gender

Sensitising Parliaments Guidelines: Standards and a Checklist for Parliamentary Change

(London: CPA,

2020).

LIU, Alm.del - 2022-23 (2. samling) - Bilag 13: Henvendelse af 16/1-2023 fra OSCE og ODIHR om invitation til webinar event: Institutionalizing Gender Mainstreaming in Parliament: Participatory Gender Audits and Gender Action Plans, som afholdes den 24 /1-2023

OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and OSCE Parliamentary

Assembly (OSCE PA) have joined this global community.

At the end of 2021, ODIHR published

“Realizing

Gender Equality in Parliament: A Guide for

Parliaments in the OSCE Region”,

a practical guide, intended to support the full range of

parliamentary actors—from parliamentary leadership teams, members of parliament, and

political and parliamentary staff, to parliamentary practitioners and civil society organizations

dealing with gender equality issues—in transforming these institutions into gender-sensitive

parliaments. The guide is based on an OSCE-wide research project, undertaken in co-

operation with the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and 46 national parliaments of OSCE

participating States.

Recognizing that transformation will not come on its own and neither without a

comprehensive and structured reform process, ODIHR and the OSCE PA have decided to

complement this publication with a

practical guidance document

on “Participatory

Gender

Audits”,

published in 2022, in English and Russian language. This guidance document sets out

how to implement participatory gender audits through a clear framework and step-by-step

process. It recognises that each parliament is unique and will undertake the audit in unique

circumstances. Therefore, the framework allows parliaments to choose the scope of the

audit, the format and the timescale within which it will be conducted. The new guidance

document comes also at the time, when national parliaments are called upon to implement

gender audits, as agreed in the 2022 IPU Kigali Declaration

launch the step-by-step guidance document,

discuss the application of gender audits and

gender action plans in parliaments, and facilitate discussion on possible steps to be taken to

work towards gender-sensitive parliaments, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and

Human Rights and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will organize a Joint Web Dialogue on

24 January 2023.

IPU, Kigali Declaration, available at https://www.ipu.org/news/press-releases/2022-10/ipu-member-

parliaments-commit-accelerating-gender-equality

OBJECTIVES OF THE EVENT

The event will provide an opportunity to discuss innovative approaches on “gender sensitive

parliaments” and the transformation of national legislatures to better deliver for all women

and men. More specifically, the event will aim to:

1. Provide a platform to exchange good practices, lessons learned and innovations on

how national parliaments are conducting regular gender audits and other forms of

gender analysis and how they are guiding their gradual reform by developing and

implementing parliamentary gender action plans; and

Raise awareness among parliamentarians of OSCE participating States of OSCE tools

and resources, including on ODIHR’s/OSCE PA’s new guidance document on

“Participatory

Gender Audits”.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and relevant staff

Members of parliament and parliamentary service leadership of national parliaments

of OSCE pSs

Representatives of OSCE executive structures

Delegations of pSs to the OSCE

Experts in the field of gender sensitive parliaments and women’s political participation

REGISTRATION

All interested participants need to register their participation at the following

LINK.

Once registered, participants will receive a zoom link to their e-mail address.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

The event will be held online, via Zoom conferencing platform.

English/Russian/English and International Sign Language interpretation is provided.

CONTACT

Should you have any questions regarding the registration and participation, please do not

hesitate to contact Natali Ashigova, Research Assistant, at

[email protected].

If you would like to hear more about gender audits and gender action plans for parliaments,

please contact Saša Gavrić, Gender Officer, at

[email protected].

AGENDA

INSTITUTIONALISING GENDER MAINSTREAMING IN PARLIAMENT:

Participatory Gender Audits and Gender Action Plans

Online // Tuesday, 24 January 2023, 10.00-12.00 CET

10:00-

10:15

Opening remarks

Margareta Cederfelt, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly

Matteo Mecacci, Director of OSCE/ODIHR

Moderator: Hana Đogović, Programme Officer, OSCE PA

10:15-

10:30

Presentation of ODIHR’s/OSCE PA’s new ‘gender sensitive parliaments’ tool

Participatory Gender Audits of Parliaments:

A Step-by-step Guidance Document

Speaker: Saša Gavrić, Gender Officer, ODIHR

Parliamentary experiences with gender audits and gender action plans

Speakers:

Dr. Hedy Fry, Member of the House of Commons of Canada,

OSCE PA Special Representative on Gender Issues

Prof. Sarah Childs, Personal Chair of Politics and Gender

University of Edinburgh

Božena Jelušić, Chair of the Gender Equality Committee

Parliament of Montenegro

Kenneth G. Forslund, First Deputy Speaker of the Swedish Rikstag,

Chairperson of the Rikstag’s Working Group on Gender Equality

Questions and answers

Closing remarks: Ways forward

Dr. Yulia Netesova, Chief of Democratic Governance and Gender Unit, ODIHR

10:30-

11:00

11:00-

11:45

11:45-

12:00