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Gender Equality
Al Aghsan Foundation remains committed to creating a better world for all-a world where inequality on any grounds, be it gender, class, race or ethnicity, is finally overcome.
The goal of the Aghsan Foundation gender equality policy is to support the achievement of equality between women and men to ensure sustainable development.
Gender equity means being fair to women and men. To ensure fairness, measures are often needed to compensate for historical and social disadvantages that prevent women and men from otherwise operating as equals. Equity leads to equality.
Gender equality means that women and men enjoy the same status and have equal opportunity to realize their full human rights and potential to contribute to national, political, economic, social and cultural development, and to benefit from the results.
Originally it was believed that equality could be achieved simply by giving women and men the same opportunities. Same treatment, however, was found not necessarily to yield equal results. Today, the concept of equality acknowledges that women and men may sometimes require different treatment to achieve similar results, due to different life conditions or to compensate for past discrimination.
Gender equality, therefore, is the equal valuing by society of both the similarities and the differences between women and men, and the varying roles they play.
Al Aghsan Foundation Policy on Gender Equality is rooted in the following principles:
Empowerment is about people — both women and men — taking control over their lives: setting their own agendas, gaining skills, building self-confidence, solving problems, and developing self-reliance. It is not only a collective, social and political process but an individual one as well — and it is not only a process but an outcome too. Outsiders cannot empower women: only women can empower themselves to make choices or to speak out on their own behalf.
However, the Aghsan Foundation can support processes that increase women’s self-confidence, develop their self-reliance, and help them set their own agendas.
Gender analysis is an indispensable tool for both understanding the local context and promoting gender equality.
The Aghsan Foundation defines knowledge of the local context as: “the recognition that development interventions operate within existing social, cultural, economic, environmental, institutional and political structures in any community or region. Simply put, knowledge of the local context is vital to understanding these relationships and their connection to the project in terms of needs, impact and results.
Gender analysis examines one of these relationships, that between women and men. It identifies the varied roles played by women and men, girls and boys in the household, community, workplace, political processes, and economy. These different roles usually result in women having less access than men to resources and decision-making processes and less control over them.
Practical needs can be defined as immediate necessities (water, shelter, food, income and health care) within a specific context. Projects that address practical needs generally include responses to inadequate living conditions. Strategic interests, on the other hand, refer to the relative status of women and men within society.
These interests vary in each context and are related to roles and expectations, as well as to gender divisions of labor, resources and power. Strategic interests may include gaining legal rights, closing wage gaps, and protection from domestic violence, increased decision making, and women’s control over their bodies.
To ensure sustainable benefits, both practical needs and strategic interests must be taken into account in the design of policies, programs and projects.
Gender analysis provides information to determine the most effective strategies in a particular context and to identify results that support gender equality. For example, programs or projects may be identified whose principal objective will be to support Gender equality, or entry points for the support of gender equality may be identified within programs or projects where gender equality is one of a number of objectives.
Gender analysis is required for all The Aghsan Foundation policies, programs and projects. Application of gender analysis will vary according to the nature and scope of initiatives.
For gender analysis to be effective, the Aghsan Foundation is committed to providing the following resources to implement the analysis results:
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