Mainstreaming the Gender Dimension in Trade and Development Issues..
Overview:

Our work on trade and poverty to which Secretary General of UNCTAD is attaching particular significance, will also contribute to resolving one of the greatest moral and humanitarian challenges facing us this century not the least because poverty is both a cause and an effect relationship with gender equity. In more ways than one, the world's fight against poverty should begin with women.

Harmony with environmental sustainability and the role of women in this is an important consideration too. So our work will address in a holistic way, all these "values"- whether we are looking at the strategic picture and systemic issues, the ground reality of trends, implications and impact on development or examining specific sectors and sub-sectors of production and trade, and in targeting technical assistance and capacity-building activities.
Work at Divisional level (DITC):
 Inter-Agency Task Force on Gender and Trade Opening statement by the Director of DITC, UNCTAD, Ms. Lakshmi Puri

Meetings:

Training Workshop on Gender Mainstreaming in Trade and Development issues at UNCTAD. Geneva, May 12, 2004.

Bringing the Trade-and-Gender-Agenda Forwards: Focusing Commodities, Investment and Labor WMO, Oct 28 2004. Agenda

UN documents:
 Substantive session of 2003 Geneva, 30 June - 25 July 2003 Items 7 (e) and 14 (a) of the provisional agenda Coordination programme and other questions: mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system Social and human rights questions: advancement of women
Follow-up to, and progress in the implementation of, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly
Papers and documents:

Trade, sustainable development and gender pdf 1,650 KB

Mainstreaming Gender In Order To Promote Opportunities pdf 28 KB

Expert Meeting On Mainstreaming Gender In Order To Promote Opportunities pdf 93 KB

Trade, Gender and Poverty pdf 326 KB

Informal Note (press release) pdf 28 KB

Links:
http://www.unctadxi.org/templates/Event____42.aspx Trade and Gender (UN Task Force)
Millennium Development Goals. Mainstreaming the gender perspective into development policies at all levels and in all sectors. Integrated treatment of trade and development, including the trade and gender nexus.

http://devdata.worldbank.org/genderstats/home.asp

www.genderandtrade.net/EconoLit/Literacy.html

www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/

www.worldbank.org/gender/

http://gender.unctad.org/ Platform for the Inter-agency Task-Force on Gender Mainstreaming

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/platform/index.html Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action

http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=67&ArticleID=4518&l=en Environment and Women
Division Focal Point:
 Nuria Castells