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Advocacy for Gender Equality
Module II
set up events (e.g. using local media, or through community festivities) to raise
awareness about the presence and strength of women as organized constituencies for
gender equality;
organize events where women hold roles and positions of leadership at all levels (for
example, women panel members, facilitators or speakers);
regularly publicize figures on participation by gender in PRSP participatory events;
establish working relations between offices or units of the ILO, national units, and
UN bodies working for the advancement of women;
raise gender equality concerns at consultative meetings, in annual reviews or in other
ways to influence the contents of the PRSP and the decisions of the PRSP Secretariat;
review materials, guidelines, brochures or any promotional material to look for
images where women and men are represented in stereotyped manners; examine the
use of language for inadvertent gender stereotyping.
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