Mongolia Compact Gender Summary Report: Best Practices And Lessons Learned11 Conclusions and Recommendations for EnsuringSustainabilityMCA-Mongolia has made a strong effort to include gender into its program. This is clearly visible inthe project‟s successes and achievements. In many ways, MCA-Mongolia has piloted interventionsfrom a gender perspective that are a first for Mongolia. These include improving women‟s landownership, adding significantly to the body of knowledge on gender through a number of surveys andevaluations, introducing topics of sexual harassment and TIP into male-dominated sectors such asconstruction or among TVET institutions, and promoting non-traditional career paths for girls throughthe TVET project. Through on-the-job training and advocacy efforts on TIP, workplace sexualharassment and HIV/AIDS and STIs prevention, MCA-Mongolia has made a contribution towardsimplementation of the national legislations and policy papers such as the Law on Gender Equality,Law on Combating Trafficking in Persons, and the Millennium Development Goals-based NationalComprehensive Development Strategy of Mongolia.“It is never too late”MCA-Mongolia started taking actions to integrate gender into the Program midway through Compactimplementation. A Program-wide Gender Integration Plan was developed later than in other MCAs.Nevertheless, a wide range of effective practices and lessons have been possible as a result of theinitiatives and efforts in making gender integration operational within six Compact projects and crosscuttingfields – Communications and Monitoring and Evaluation.As the MCA-Mongolia Compact ends, a focus on sustainability of these interventions is important toensure that any successor agencies can adequately take forward and continue MCA-Mongolia‟s workon gender. To help facilitate this, MCA-Mongolia has:‣ Carried out introductory meetings with relevant successor agencies, including their genderfocal points to inform them of MCA-Mongolia‟s work on gender and engage them inconversations on how they can continue the work.‣ Continued to engage with the National Gender Equality Committee, which will continuesome of this work. The Gender Equality Law and the Mid-Term Strategy and Action Plan forthe Implementation of the Law of Mongolia on Promotion of Gender Equality (<strong>2013</strong>-2016)include a number of provisions of relevance to MCA-Mongolia activities, and if fullyimplemented, will help ensure sustainability across a number of areas. These includeworkplace sexual harassment, public awareness-raising on gender equality through media,awareness-raising on TIP issues, sex-disaggregated data collection and analysis, and thegender focal point system being established through all government agencies.‣ This gender summary report summarizes key findings and lessons and will be broadly sharedand distributed so that both the public at large but also potential successors can learn from itand can apply these experiences.‣ The closure workshop was partly designed to further inform and engage successor agencieson SGA lessons and strategies while collecting their feedback on the Sustainability Matrix,which is included in this report.‣ Continued dissemination and information sharing on results is a strong emphasis in the finalmonths of the Compact. For example, the 6 female roles models chosen through the Women`sleadership campaign will continue to be examples of the non-traditional sectors andencourage women`s engagement in these sectors.The Mongolian Government has decided not to terminate all MCA-Mongolia work but to maintainsome of it through the National Reformation Committee. While the exact shape of the new structure isstill being debated, the Working Group has expressed willingness in adopting MCA-Mongolia‟sgender related practices. The group is also inviting the National Committee on Gender Equality to bepart of the deliberations, helping to ensure that gender issues will remain on the agenda. More54Page 54 of 80
Mongolia Compact Gender Summary Report: Best Practices And Lessons Learnedspecifically, it is noted in the Proposal paper for integration of MCA-Mongolia to the NationalReformation Committee of Mongolia includes language outlining gender responsibilities.Project-specific recommendations and entry points to be followed up on by MCA-Mongolia forensuring sustainability are provided in the sustainability matrix below. In addition, during theCompact ESA-specific Closure workshop, as part of the social and gender session, participants fromvarious organizations and possible successor agencies identified additional action items and entrypoints that were deemed as important for integrating gender issues into the sectors funded by theMCA going forward more generally, as well as in response to the issues the MCA-Mongolia‟s workon gender highlighted. These participants‟ views and recommended actions for future work on genderin the sectors are provided in the Annex 1.Page 55 of 8055
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