Florence Pauly, P&F Consulting Ltd Presentation given during the 5th GEF Biennial International Waters Conference in Cairns, Australia during the participant-led workshop on Gender and Water.

1. Gender mainstreaming
requires training
• Gender mainstreaming
► strategy for change to
achieve gender equality
• Gender training
► transformative
► deeply political (resistances)
► highly contextual

2. Contextualising gender training
►Gender machinery (internal/external):
existence of loci designated to care for
gender (or gender+) equality policies
►Other influential voices: other political
actors like NGOs or other segments of
civil society, or political parties, unions and
similar organisations, think tanks

3. Contextualising gender training (2)
►Equality climate: socio-cultural climate
(media, science and culture) and
institutional climate.
►Gender mainstreaming history: past
gender mainstreaming efforts, or diversity
management activities, or variations of
both, and what status such activities were
given in the overall political framework.

4. Contextualising gender training (3)
►Gender expertise: level of available
gender expertise.
► Gender data: availability of gender data

5. Integrating
gender in
research
projects

6. Gender in research content
Research Idea Phase (checklist)
►If the research involves humans as
research objects, has the relevance of
gender to the research topic been
analysed?
►If the research does not directly involve
humans, are the possibly differentiated
relations of men and women to the
research subject sufficiently clear?

7. Gender in research content (2)
Research Idea Phase (checklist)
►Have you reviewed literature and other
sources relating to gender differences in
the research field?
www.yellowwindow.com/genderinresearch

8. Why gender matters in
(research) projects
► Better projects: quality - utility
► Better policies
► Accountability