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PLAU Policy Leadership and Advocacy Unit Ministry of Women and Children Affairs

PLAU Policy Leadership and Advocacy Unit Ministry of Women and Children Affairs. The PLAU Context. IRWID Recommendation to Create PLAU Establishing PLAU included in NAP as MWCA agenda Bilateral Agreement between Canada and Bangladesh to establish PLAU. Rationale of PLAU.

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PLAU Policy Leadership and Advocacy Unit Ministry of Women and Children Affairs

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  1. PLAUPolicy Leadership and Advocacy UnitMinistry of Women and Children Affairs

  2. The PLAU Context • IRWID Recommendation to Create PLAU • Establishing PLAU included in NAP as MWCA agenda • Bilateral Agreement between Canada and Bangladesh to establish PLAU

  3. Rationale of PLAU • Assist the Ministry in its lead agency role for mainstreaming gender equality • Facilitate and support the other GOB agencies’ initiatives to respond to the priorities and needs of women

  4. Mandate of PLAU • Support to NCWD • Follow up to the PFA and the National Action Plan • Support to WID Focal Points • Implementation of Institutional Review of Women in Development (IR-WID) recommendations

  5. Mandate of PLAU (Continued) • Support to MWCA units in strengthening their policy leadership and advocacy capacity • Links with women’s organization • Assessment of information and research sources and needs

  6. PLAU Composition • 3 GOB positions: Joint Chief, Deputy Chief and Senior Assistant Chief • 4 local experts on contract as donor counterparts to provide technical support to the PLAU-GOB staff • Expatriate experts from Canada to facilitate activities of the PLAU

  7. PLAU Status • The Unit now functioning as a separate unit of the MWCA since January 2002 and has already been notified under PLAGE • The Unit has got the endorsement from the Ministry of Establishment and is awaiting approval of the Ministry of Finance

  8. Documentation and Resource Centre (DRC) A Resource Centre on Gender and Development

  9. Objectives of DRC • Support PLAU to carryout policy advocacy and research activities • Enhance flow of information within and outside PLAU • Provide services to facilitate application of gender mainstreaming concepts, methodologies, tools and institutional pracites

  10. Objectives of DRC (Continued) • Establish communication and learning networks among stakeholders • Facilitate the process of accessibility to information among selected civil society groups

  11. Components of DRC • Documentation with Audio-Visual Reference Services • Project briefing • Paper clipping • Information on grassroots org. • Gender disaggregated database

  12. Resources Available in DRC • Women specific issues: violence, health, employment, empowerment, development, human rights etc. • Research documents on gender & dev. • Periodicals on gender issues • Newspaper clippings-21 key heads • Resources/pubs. of PLAGE & MWCA • Documentaries on gender related issues

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