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with relation to broader societal impacts of gender equality, that is, progress in women’s total share ofseats in national assemblies, the increase in women working outside the agricultural sector, women’sincome compared to men’s in selected countries of cooperation, and the enrolment rate of girls inprimary school compared to that of boys.The results report of 2008 focuses on three thematic areas (i.e., electrification, girls’ education and goodgovernance) and three focus countries (Nepal, Mozambique, and Southern Sudan). Evidently, mostreporting on WRGE is in the chapter on girls’ education. However, WRGE is included in the chapterson electrification and good governance as well, and also in the chapters on the three countries.Southern Sudan reported on support to girls’ education, but also mentioned the Southern Sudaneseauthorities’ policy of 25% representation of women in the SPLM (p. 82). Within the support towardspeace building and good governance, the total share that goes to women’s organisations is identified onpage 26, demonstrating that there has been a marked increase in the level of support from 2006 to 2007.Apart from this diagram, women are only mentioned one more time in the chapter on good governanceand only twice in the chapter on electrification. In the chapter on Nepal, several results are listed withgender-specific statistics.16
3 To what extent has Norway changed its politicalpriorities so women’s rights and gender equalityhave a central place in political dialogues andinitiatives?The indicator in the ToR is:Women’s rights and gender equality are some of the main elements in political dialogueThe data sources identified are: Studies of minutes and Norwegian presentations from relevant international arenas, including theUN General Assembly, OECD-DAC, ECOSOC, HR Council, UNHCR, UN trade andenvironment organisations, UNDP and UNICEF, in 2005 and 2008 to see how Norway performsconcerning its advocacy role. Overview of gender balance and gender equality mandates in international delegations and meetingsappointed by MFA in 2005 and 2008. Analysis of country meetings.We have not been able to consult the second data source, as we have not been able to accessinformation on international delegations and meetings appointed by the MFA, and their gender balanceand gender equality mandates.3.1 Minutes from meetings and presentations in international arenasThe team believes that the question needs rephrasing. Gender has been high on the political agenda formany years when Norway makes presentations in global arena. It is therefore more a question aboutcontinuity. We have reviewed a number of the speeches that are presented on the MFA webpage/website.3.2 Analysis of country meetingsAnnual country meetings between the embassies and representatives from the partner country are nolonger held as a general rule. In those embassies with budget support, most of the policy dialogue takesplace in connexion with meeting related to the budget support.We have not been able to access information relating to policy dialogues on Joint Assistance Strategies(JAS) and General Budget Support (GBS). However, we have accessed a few Country Agreements, forMozambique, Malawi and Tanzania, which all belong to the five large embassies (in addition to Zambiaand Uganda). The country agreements do not refer in any of the cases to WRGE as a priority sector, butmention it as a cross-cutting theme in line with environment, anti-corruption and HIV/AIDS. Nomeasures pertaining to WRGE or on how this topic should be reported were discussed. This is in linewith the findings from the Evaluation of2005.The Review Team has also accessed a few other country policy papers. The country strategy papers forboth Liberia (MFA 2009c) and Ethiopia have a strong focus on WRGE. The mandate for the firstannual country dialogue meeting with Ethiopia also included a strong reference to WRGE, and not onlyas a cross-cutting issue. However, even when WRGE was discussed in the meeting in early 2009, it wasnot recorded in the minutes from the meeting, something the embassy apologised for.17
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