Ulaanbaatar 2013

Mongolia Compact Gender Summary Report: Best Practices And Lessons LearnedMilestones Progress with meeting the milestonesWith MCC's no objection, MCA hires senior social scientist with gendercompetency as key personnel.A Social Specialist with gender competency has been recruited since 1 Sept. 2008. Later in theimplementation stage, a second Social and Gender Specialist was hired.Gender Integration Plan developed by MCA and approved by MCC prior to EIFThe Mongolia Compact entered into force in 17 Sept. 2008 which is prior to adoption of theMCC‟s Gender Milestones and therefore this requirement was not incorporated. The ProgramwideGender Integration Plan was developed in 3rd year of the Compact implementation.Gender Integration Plan incorporated into program and project work plans Yes, to the extent still feasible given the late of the Compact stage.Gender integrated into relevant SOWs and deliverables for feasibility, design,ESIA, and construction contractsGender could not be integrated into most of SoW and deliverables that predated Entry intoForce. But given the Program re-scoping, gender was integrated into relevant SoW andcontracts for two new projects, and to some degree into TORs and SOWs of other existingprojects.Social and gender assessment staff on TTL and M&E liaison work with M&Estaff to ensure gender integration into monitoring and evaluation plansM&E Plan amendments post Compact signing include sex-disaggregated data and genderindicators, but not prior to the Compact signing.6. ImplementationGender Integration a topic in Implementation WorkshopThe Mongolia Compact entered into force several years before the MCC‟s Gender Milestoneswere approved and therefore this requirement was not incorporated.Gender training conducted for all MCA staff and implementing partnersThe training workshop targeted at MCA-M staff -- PIUs‟ Gender Focal Points, M&E andCommunications Specialists -- and relevant Contractors‟ representatives was conducted fourtimes, while the Guest Speaker‟s lecture was organized twice by local NGOs. As part of theCompact closure, external stakeholders were informed at a workshop on ESA and SGA issuesinformed about MCA-M gender interventions and consulted on sustainability options.MCA senior social/gender specialist provides input on gender integration to otherESA (such as resettlement) and sectoral specialists in the MCA.This is well under way through quarterly monitoring discussion with PIUs‟ GFPs whereguidance is provided. Relevant documents of projects and cross-cutting units like Terms ofReferences and survey instruments have been reviewed by the MCA-ESA unit.MCA senior social/gender specialist and MCC review each project for genderintegration performance quarterly.Gender integration performances of each project are reported through a mandatory specialsection on Gender Integration of the project Quarterly Progress Report, and QuarterlyDisbursement Request packages contain gender information/updates.Page 68 of 8068