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TAF Timor-Leste Gender Programming

TAF Timor-Leste Gender Programming. TAF Timor-Leste Gender Programming. Political participation – women’s political participation at the local level (Norway); support to increase women’s role in policy making through Support for Good Public Policy program;

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TAF Timor-Leste Gender Programming

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  1. TAF Timor-Leste Gender Programming

  2. TAF Timor-Leste Gender Programming • Political participation – women’s political participation at the local level (Norway); support to increase women’s role in policy making through Support for Good Public Policy program; • Safety and security – community policing program; surveys on security; research on community perceptions regarding DV; • Justice – ATJ program –continuing support to advocacy by legal aid organisations for policy reform on state funding for NGO legal aid services; • Violence Against Women – DFID research on economic dimensions of DV and DFAT EVAW program (from April 2014 to 2017).

  3. How do we design our gender programming? • No standard design process but we are getting more gender sensitive! • Draw on program learnings to identify where are thematic areas need to be more targeted. For example: • previous local governance work was well regarded but did not sufficiently address women and local governance – hence the Women’s Local Governance Program; • increase in DV as an element of the community policing program; • ATJ focus increasingly working with women lawyers and for women clients has been well regarded and is contributing factor to TAF being granted the DFAT EVAW program.

  4. Challenges with our gender programming • Gender inequalities within TAF programmes - 4 Program Directors – (3 male; 1 female); 5 Program Managers/Senior Program Officers (4 male; 1 female); Program Officers (??) • Staff awareness of gender and women’s rights is limited – impacts on work and personal relationships – getting it right internally is important, including for our relationships with partners. • Lack of clear frameworks and principles for our programming, systems and standards – impact of this on our programming has been significant (eg GEC (lack of participation of women and limited ability to engage with village councils on women’s concerns) and ATJ (marginalisation of women lawyers and concerns about service delivery for women clients).

  5. Opportunities • Strong commitment – WEP Training Week • Growing number of women program officers – two program officers specifically dedicated to gender. WLGP specifically recruiting women as district coordinators; • Recent program activities well regarded – TAF placed well in all thematic areas re gender programming – good to keep building linkages with others working in the field, beneficiaries and internationally (including across TAF) to further strengthen the work. • Growing rigor on gender programming from donors and INGOs that we can tap into and growing experience within TAF (eg expectations from DFAT re EVAW design and ‘do no harm’, recent request from DFAT for info on how we are monitoring and evaluating gender issues re SGPP; Care tools although often tools need to be adapted). • TAF Gender Policy.

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