1. How Gender Mainstreaming can contribute to smarter public service?
13th Pacific Public Service Commissioners’ Conference
Palau, August 2016
Toelupe Kuiniselani Tago Elisara
Brigitte Leduc

2. Outline of Presentation
What gender mainstreaming entails?
How it can make the public service “smarter”?
What role the Offices of the Public Service Commission can play in the gender mainstreaming process?
Some recommendations

3. Pay disparity in the Pacific

4. In Solomon Islands, where 90 percent of vendors are women, the estimated annual turnover of Honiara’s central market is around US$10-16 million

5. What does gender mainstreaming entail?
Data and statistics
We need to know if there are differences between women and men

6. What Does gender mainstreaming entail?
2. Analysis
We need to be able to assess if and how women and men may be differently affected by our policies and services; and if they will equality benefits from those

7. What Does gender mainstreaming entail?
3. Capacities, resources, rules, accountability
We need a system to make it work – a system to make all government institutions play a role in addressing gender disparities where they are so that all segments of the population benefit from our services

8. Definition of gender mainstreaming
Gender Mainstreaming is “the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels.
It is a strategy for making women’s as well as men’s concerns and experiences an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in all political, economic and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated. The ultimate goal is to achieve gender equality” (UNECOSOC)
and sustainable development.

9. Gender Mainstreaming is a Strategy
Gender Mainstreaming is a strategy to achieve the goals of equity, equality and inclusiveness which are critical factors of good governance, efficient programs, and sustainable development

10. What are the benefits?
A shift towards a more people-centred approach to development and government management
More holistic approach to policy development
More informed policy making
Improved governance
Responsive government policies & services
Improved public service delivery

11. Gender Mainstreaming Engine
COMMITMENT AND LEADERSHIP
legal and policy framework
political will
SYSTEMS
organisational culture
accountability and responsibility
CAPABILITY AND CAPACITY
technical capacity
adequate resources
Gender Mainstreaming Engine

12. Potential role of Public Service Commissions and Bureau of Personnel
Human resources
Gender balance staffing at all level of the organisation
Respectful workplace
Equal opportunity for career development
Parental leave
Information on all those measures in staff induction

13. Potential role of Public Service Commissions
Gender mainstreaming strategy for each ministry
Production of sex disaggregated of service users
Responsibility for mainstreaming gender in job descriptions/ contracts
Annual report on implementation of gender mainstreaming strategy
Training for CEOs and Directors on gender mainstreaming approach
Gender mainstreaming approach in staff induction training

14. Recommendations
identify measures for public services to establish to support gender mainstreaming process in your country
To develop a set of guidelines for mainstreaming gender through public services to be piloted by volunteered countries
SPC would like to offer to organise a regional workshop in 2017 on gender mainstreaming in public services in the Pacific islands countries

15. Thank you!