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Nadia Al Awamleh & Mohammad Alatoom

DDC: 12th Advisory Committee Meeting Dead Sea, Jordan, 26-27 February 2014 UNDP-Jordan. Nadia Al Awamleh & Mohammad Alatoom. Presentation outline. Catalytic support of DDC/Finland. Energy Efficiency in buildings $2 million. Grey-water reuse in agriculture.

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Nadia Al Awamleh & Mohammad Alatoom

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  1. DDC: 12th Advisory Committee MeetingDead Sea, Jordan, 26-27 February 2014 UNDP-Jordan Nadia Al Awamleh & Mohammad Alatoom

  2. Presentation outline

  3. Catalytic support of DDC/Finland

  4. Energy Efficiency in buildings$2 million

  5. Grey-water reuse in agriculture

  6. Cross-Cutting Capacity Development • Mainstreaming the Rio Conventions Provisions into National SectoralPolicies • Enhanced institutional capacities to plan, develop policies • Improved awareness and understanding of Rio Conventions' contributions to sustainable development • Overall budget: $1,200,000

  7. Land use planning - SLM/National Spatial Strategy • Project document is developed • Institutional and Policy set up • Develop National Strategy for Spatial Planning • Overall budget is $2.7 million

  8. Sustainable Tourism • Over a period of 4 years … • for a cash cost of approx$3.6 million and in-kind, etc, of a further $21 million or so … • address the main barriers by … • developing policies, approaches, and tools which, if implemented … • will lead to the mainstreaming of biodiversity considerations into tourism developments …

  9. Project Strategy • Firstly, at “Upstream” level by working with government and the tourist industry to develop institutional tools and measures • Secondly, at the local level, including Protected Areas, by working with local authorities and protected areas management to enhance their capacities for biodiversity protection.

  10. THREE PROJECT OUTCOMES 1 Framework to reduce impacts Regulatory and enforcement framework in place to avoid, reduce, mitigate and offset adverse impacts of tourism on biodiversity 2 Institutional capacities Institutional capacities for planning, monitoring and enforcement so as to manage the impacts of tourism development on biodiversity within ecologically valuable and sensitive areas, together with their key species 3 PA management effectiveness Improved management effectiveness particularly in revenue generation, tourism planning and management, and community relations in Dibeen, Shoubak and Wadi Rum Protected Areas as evidenced by METT scores

  11. Budget Total of cash budget is $3.6 million

  12. Land use plans

  13. Rum PA

  14. Dibeen PA

  15. Gender Equality&Women Empowerment UNDP-Jordan Nadia Al Awamleh,Socio Economic Analyst,UNDP Jordan

  16. In Jordan there exists a strong and continuing political will in favor of gender equality with focus on improving women status and gender mainstreaming • Progress has revolved by elimination of gender gap in the education enrollment, school and universities graduates, improvement of health indicators for both males and females and increasing of females in some sectors especially the judicial sector • Gender quotas to increase women’s political participation in national parliaments and municipalities

  17. Presence of women in parliament;12.2% in the Lower House and 11.7% in the Upper House. Currently three women ministers, for culture, social development and transportation. • However, many obstacles still face the women’s movement and gender equality ; • Women’s participation in the economy, which remains low, with women making up only around 13.9 per cent of the Kingdom’s workforce

  18. UNDP Strategic Plan 2014-2017 • Outcome 4; Faster progress is achieved in reducing gender inequality and promoting women’s empowerment; • Engagement Policies; Reflecting the pivotal significance of gender equality and women’s empowerment, understanding that sustainable human development will not be fully achieved unless women and girls are able to contribute on an equal basis with men and boys to their societies; • UNDP’s development activities will place particular emphasis on specific population groups, especially women, female-headed households and youth

  19. Gender &WE UNDP Jordan’s Programmes • UNDP Jordan office takes consideration of gender in all project proposal formulation, and in the formulation of outputs and of indicators, reflecting more attention to information on women, often with gender-disaggregated statistics being cited in the situation analysis • Projects take gender considerations through discussion of strategy, and into the results frame

  20. Gender in the Socio-Economic Programme Socio-Economic Programme focuses largely on human aspects of poverty, poverty alleviation and the MDG, the reflex of assessing potential gender differences and their possible impact is core Food Security Project: Rural women ability to produce food and generate income in these regions was increased in which women based production types of activities were encouraged and emphasized in the identified 3 eco regions

  21. Gender in the Socio-Economic Programme Support to Poverty Analysis: Gender statistics within HIES, Quality of Life,MIS,Humandevelopment, unemployment and employment survey. Gender aspect included as cutting issue and as a separate pillar in the composition of the PRS (Poverty Reduction Strategy) Social accounting matrix, Jordanian input output tables gender sensitive Youth Employment Generation: Internship Programme youth females 50% of beneficiaries,Support to establish Microbusinesses 30% ,vocational training 30%

  22. Gender in the Socio-Economic Programme Mitigating the Impact of Syrian Refugees Crisis on the Jordanian Vulnerable Host Communities: The programme gives due attention to women’s issues. A minimum acceptable level of women’s participation in all project activities should not go below 25 % Allocation of at least 15% of the total budget towards gender as per the UN Secretary General’s directives Equal opportunities including wages, access to services (social and financial) for men and women, urban and rural, and local communities

  23. Gender in the Governance Programme • Enhanced participation of young women, ages 18-29, from the 12 governorates through building of debate skills and knowledge on political participation • Greater engagement of women in consultations on political reform through the technical assistance provided by UNDP to the reform process including revision of laws and development of necessary strategies and plans • Developing a gender mapping in political parties to support informed decision making in relation to reform laws and party regulations as well as development of interventions to foster qualitative engagement of women in parties

  24. Gender in the Governance Programme • Support quality participation of women in national, and local elections and local governance through workshops held at local level and customized to the targeted areas on “”why” and “how” to participate • Equal opportunities for young men and women to access knowledge and skills building opportunities on participation were ensured through utilization of new media to facilitate participation of women in debate and knowledge sharing

  25. Gender in the Governance Programme • Equal opportunities for men and women for property ownership is ensured through technical and logistical support to ensure gender-sensitive property tax management at local level • Supporting the Independent Election Commission to develop a gender mainstreaming strategy

  26. Gender in the Environment Programme • Increased role of women in decision-making and their access to water resources in Azraq area, East of Jordan by enhancing participation of women in Azraq area in water governance program and engaging local women association in local water management consultations.   • Greater engagement of women in consultations on development of energy efficiency standards and labels of home-based appliances; • Target women at the household level in education and awareness programs on energy efficiency

  27. Gender in the Environment Programme • Equal opportunities for men and women to access knowledge on ecosystem services, biodiversity, land degradation and climate change; • Engage women associations in Al-Kfair area in consultations and management of waste water treatment technologies.

  28. Gender in the Disaster Risk Reduction Programme • Through Supporting ASEZA (Aqaba SpecialEconomic Zone Authority ) in a project aiming at building capacities for earthquake risk reduction ;Conducting Genderand Social Vulnerability/Resilience Assessment, bringing in the human dimension of a potential disaster in Aqaba; in particular it looks at the aspect gender and social vulnerability/resilience

  29. DDC Support to UNDP Jordan-Gender&WE • Consultancy Support Nov.2013;How can UNDP Jordan strengthen its work on women empowerment and gender equality? • The need to examine possible avenues in both gender mainstreaming and women/gender specific interventions • Interviews with women/gender experts , activists, academic, researchers and lawyers. • Interviews with UNDP staff and government counterparts, and key members of the National Women Machinery in Jordan

  30. DDC Support to UNDP Jordan-Gender&WE • General screening of key UN Jordan strategies led by UNDP, as well as other key UNDP strategies, action plans and a sample of project documents • Current priorities in Jordan specifically focused on the areas where UNDP has comparative advantage • A general agreement ;women’s economic empowerment the most urgent priority, followed by women civil rights in the constitution and legislation, access to justice and their political and social empowerment

  31. DDC Support to UNDP Jordan-Gender&WE Proposed areas of future work on Women/Gender specific projects: • Analysis of existing research on economic and employment policies; opening dialogue on economic policies and programmes that address gender issues in employment; and contribution to reforms in legislation that impact directly and indirectly on employment of diverse women and men (both in the formal and informal sectors).

  32. DDC Support to UNDP Jordan-Gender&WE Proposed areas of future work on Women/Gender specific projects: • Improve conditions and increased productivity in agriculture through support to activities focusing on women’s access to and control over agriculture resources, new technologies and skills and, • Promotion of protection mechanisms for women agriculture labourers, who are often underpaid, exploited and mistreated.

  33. DDC Support to UNDP Jordan-Gender&WE Proposed areas of future work on Women/Gender specific projects: • Fair trade project to be implemented with rural women for the production and export of almonds and olive oil • Young women and men and their productive role from a gender perspective; a participative study to identify cultural, institutional and work market conditions, work with different groups to challenge dominant gender/power relations and stereotypes in relation to employability and work conditions.

  34. DDC Support to UNDP Jordan-Gender&WE Proposed areas of future work on Women/Gender specific projects: • Support civil rights of husbands and children of Jordanian women • Support fair and Equal and Access to Justice for women

  35. Thank You

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