Policy Documents

Abstract: The objective of this checklist is to provide a tool for effective mainstreaming of gender in infrastructure programs and projects to: (i) guide task managers and implementation teams to plan, design, implement, monitor and evaluate gender-sensitive and responsive infrastructure projects; and (ii) assist RMC projects implementers to become both agents for ensuring effective gender analysis and mainstreaming of gender in Bank supported infrastructure development interventions.

Abstract: The objective of the checklist is to provide a practical tool for Bank staff to enhance the mainstreaming of gender issues into the Bank’s projects in the education sector, with specific focus on HEST. Although the Checklist provides a framework for the integration of gender issues in the project cycle not all the proposed actions are appropriate for all situations. They are, therefore, intended to be flexible and adaptable to the goals and objectives of a particular project.

Abstract: The purpose of the Checklist is to provide Bank staff as well as consultants with a tool to facilitate effective analysis and identification of the gender issues in the health sector, to design appropriate gender sensitive strategies/components, allocations of resources and definition of monitoring indicators through all stages of the project/program cycle. For effective gender analysis and mainstreaming in projects, the Checklists should be used together with the Bank’s Operations Manual and the Environmental and Social Procedures (ESAP). On the use of the ESAP, the preparation of gender-sensitive terms of reference for Environmental and Social Assessment studies should be a key consideration to demonstrate good practices in mainstreaming gender in any Bank funded sector intervention, including health sector projects.

Abstract: This Bank Group’s Gender Policy defines the commitment of the African Development Bank (the Bank) to promote gender mainstreaming as a means of fostering poverty reduction, economic development and gender equality on the continent. The policy elaborates the key concepts and approaches that support gender and development issues and seeks to provide, among other things, a requisite framework for action, which will ensure equal access to women and men of all Bank resources and opportunities. It also contains a summary of the evolution in perspectives and practices designed to integrate gender/women into the development process that have taken place in the last thirty years. The policy outlines both institutional and operational strategies to be used in its implementation.