Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women in the Context of the Implementation of the Millennium Development Goals

Sustained increase of women meeting violent deaths

• A total of 4,602 cases of women meeting violent deaths are registered between 2001 to 2009

• Source: PNC, 2007.

Decision-Making

• Source: TSE, 2007, Segeplan, 2010

• 50% of policies include guidelines and actions to promote gender and ethnic equality.

• Advances for Women’s Equality

Links between the National Policy for the Advancement and Integral Development of Women and the MDG’s

Pillars of the National Policy for the Advancement and Integral Development of Women	MDG
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Economic development	X		X
Natural resources							X
Educational equity		X	X
Health equity				X	X	X
Erradication of violence against women			X		X
Legal equity			X
Racism and discrimination			X
Cultural Development		X	X
Equity in employment	X	X	X
Institutional mechanisms			X					X
Sociopolitical participation			X
Cultural identity of Maya, Garífuna and Xinka women		X	X

Links between MDG reports and policy making

COST – EFFECTIVE VARIABLES /MDG Report 2006	GOVERNMENTAL PROGRAMMES
Children with access to GROWTH MONITORING	“Mi familia progresa” conditional cash transfer Nutrition and Food Security Reproductive Health
Mothers with access to the BREASTFEEDING Programmes
Pregnant women with access to PRENATAL CARE
Mothers with access to POST-NATAL CARE
Households with well or tap (access to PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY)	“Agua Fuente de Paz” Water and Drainage for Human Development
Households with LATRINE (access to wastepipe)
Access to HEALTH-CARE SERVICES, clinics, health-care centers and hospitals	Reinstatement of free public services, provision of ambulances, 24-hour care
Access to SCHOOLS	Reinstatement of free public services, loans, grants, scholarships
Primary school students receiving ACADEMIC INCENTIVES
Parents’ educational level (+parental illiteracy-children’s education)	Free of charge Literacy
Households with ELECTRICITY	Electric Supply for Rural Areas

Lessons Learned

• Challenges for the Country

Effects of Guatemala’s disaster vulnerability on the achivement of MDG’s and gender equity

• Secretariat for Planning and Programming
• Republic of Guatemala
• –Segeplan-
• www.segeplan.gob.gt