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Mongolia Compact Gender Summary Report: Best Practices And Lessons Learned3 KEY COMPACT-WIDE ACHIEVEMENTS3.1 Key AchievementsMCC and MCA-Mongolia‟s ESA team initiated discussions and work on gender in the fall of 2010.This started in an initial compilation of key issues and entry points for all projects, and some earlywork on integrating gender in areas such as the EEP or Property Rights projects. For example, anearly effort was undertaken to sex-disaggregate all land titles in the GASR registry to help in gainingknowledge on the extent of women‟s land ownership and decision making regarding how best toensure registrations by females in the Property Rights project. For EEP, which was added to theCompact after Compact approval due to some re-scoping, it was possible at this stage to review initialplanning documents and studies, including plans for subsidies to ensure that both the rates being setand the approach would ensure benefits to women and female-headed households in particular.The Compact-wide Public Consultation Plan carried out in 2009 included separate consultations withwomen, where issues were raised regarding their ability to benefit, and regarding potential adverseimpacts. These issues were to some extent reflected in the Framework Environmental Assessmentsand Management Plans. One example is the Peri-Urban Rangeland Project where issues of potentialinvoluntary resettlement, livelihood impacts and economic losses for non-participant herders wereaddressed through for example, excluding summer and fall camps from the project areas.Since the Gender Integration Plan was adopted across the six projects the ESA team has closelymonitored progress and led and provided assistance to the implementation of the plan.One of highlights worth noting is the capacity building efforts that MCA-Mongolia has invested in.Three gender trainings have been conducted by an international expert with participation of PIUrepresentatives and their corresponding contractors. To continue this capacity building, MCA-Mongolia‟s Gender Working Group, composed of Gender Focal Points (GFPs), met quarterly andinvited guest speakers from local recognized NGOs.Key program-wide accomplishments are summarized below:‣ The appointment of GFPs at each PIU, for M&E and communications: the focal points underwentcapacity building and training and were given technical assistance to facilitate their work and helpensure their effectiveness. Yet there are trade-offs and challenges with the focal points system, asfurther discussed in the lessons learned section.‣ Support and frequent monitoring of PIUs for the implementation of gender requirements.‣ Assisted the Road Project in developing a regulation on prevention and fighting against sexualharassment at the work place and promoting equal rights. Additional actions included promotingfemale employment in construction, and awareness-raising regarding road safety, Trafficking inPersons (TIP), and gender based violence both among the construction workforce and in the 5soums surrounding the road. While these issues are increasingly emphasized as important in othercountries, they were a first for a road project in Mongolia.‣ Small scale survey on Property Rights and Gender –survey carried out in collaboration with thePRP and the ESA team. This survey complements the larger impact evaluation efforts and focusesin more depth on gender dynamics, in particular on issues of how women‟s increased landownership impacts intra-household dynamics, women‟s bargaining power within the householdand in the community, and the levels of domestic violence.‣ Small-scale Gender Assessment for the Peri-Urban Rangeland Project: “Herder Women and MenSpeak Out” - conducted as an initiative of the ESA team. As the assessment reveals, malepreference still exists and strongly influences herders‟ behavior. According to qualitative dataPage 9 of 809