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英文摘要： PREFACE
Gender mainstreaming was established as a global strategy for the
promotion of gender equality in the Platform for Action adopted at the Fourth
World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995). The mainstreaming mandate
was reinforced in the ECOSOC Agreed Conclusions 1997/2 and at the
twenty-third special session of the General Assembly in June 2000. ECOSOC
resolution 2001/41 calls for intensified efforts to ensure that gender
mainstreaming is an integral part of all its activities, including through followup
to the implementation of the ECOSOC Agreed Conclusions 1997/2.
All entities within the United Nations are encouraged to give greater
attention to gender perspectives in their work programmes and to support the
efforts of Member States. Experience from both the United Nations and
Member States has shown that the provision of opportunities for the exchange
of ideas, experiences and good practice on gender mainstreaming is a fruitful
means of increasing awareness, commitment and capacity to implement the
strategy.
The Office of the Special Adviser on Women and Gender Issues and
the Division for the Advancement of Women of the United Nations, therefore,
decided to organize a series of regional symposia on gender mainstreaming in
collaboration with the five Regional Commissions of the United Nations. The
present volume is the proceedings of the first of these symposia, organized
with the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific at
Bangkok in December 2001.
The Asian and Pacific regional symposium brought together 80
representatives of Governments, intergovernmental organizations, civil society
organizations and United Nations bodies for a constructive dialogue on gender
mainstreaming in the region. The symposium programme included six
substantive sessions covering the theme of the forty-sixth session of the
Commission on the Status of Women, “Eradicating poverty, including through
the empowerment of women, throughout their life cycle in a globalizing
world”; institutional change; gender mainstreaming in national budgets;
responsibilities and accountabilities; case studies; and gender mainstreaming in
intergovernmental processes.
The symposium covered presentations on gender mainstreaming
practices that had been tested in the field, interactive discourse to identify and
address potentials and constraints of the utilized approaches, and intensive
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working group sessions. This publication is a compilation of the presentations
made at the symposium and the communiqué and recommendations adopted
unanimously by the participants.
The organizers would like to thank the moderators and participants
who so generously shared their expertise and experiences. We would also
like to express our appreciation to the Governments and organizations that
sponsored presentations, and to the Government of Japan and the Japan
International Cooperation Agency which provided financial and technical
support for the symposium and for this publication.
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