8.5 Gender mainstreaming in the road sector in Uganda
This short paper describes Danish International Development Agency's (Danida's) gender mainstreaming work in the Ugandan roads sector 1998–2008. The paper explains Danida's approach, objectives and work:
- To integrate gender into sector policies, strategies, plans, programmes and projects
- To enable girls and women as well as boys and men to express their views and participate in decision making in the sector.
The specific challenges Danida addressed in gender mainstreaming were:
- The view of the roads sector as a male domain
- Lack of measures to ensure compliance with gender equality
- Failure to clearly report and communicate results.
The paper describes how Danida addressed the challenges, the indicators for measuring to what extent these efforts were successful and the results achieved. It concludes by presenting a set of lessons learned.
Issuing body: Danish International Development Agency
Type: Paper presented to the Embassy gender review workshop, January 2008
Status: Final
Title: Gender mainstreaming in the road sector in Uganda
File type: Word document
File size: 57.5 KB
Year of publication: 2008
Number of pages: 2
