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The Legacy of Instraw in Promoting the Rights Of THE LEGACY OF INSTRAW IN PROMOTING THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN A HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE INSTITUTE BETWEEN 1976 AND 2010 UN WOMEN IS THE UN ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO GENDER EQUALITY AND THE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN. A GLOBAL CHAMPION FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS, UN WOMEN WAS ESTABLISHED TO ACCELERATE PROGRESS ON MEETING THEIR NEEDS WORLDWIDE. UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality, and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes and services needed to implement these standards. It stands behind women’s equal participation in all aspects of life, focusing on five priority areas: increasing women’s leadership and participation; ending violence against women; engaging women in all aspects of peace and security processes; enhancing women’s economic empowerment; and making gender equality central to national development planning and budgeting. UN Women also coordinates and promotes the UN system’s work in advancing gender equality. The legacy of INSTRAW in promoting the rights of women. A historical record of the Institute between 1976 and 2010. UN Women Training Center Av. César Nicolás Penson, #102A, La Esperilla Santo Domingo, República Dominicana 10108 Phone: +1 829 954-0000 [email protected] Web site: https://trainingcentre.unwomen.org/?lang=es ISBN: 978-1-63214-034-0 The intellectual legacy of INSTRAW for the promotion of the women’s rigths. Institutional Memory of 1976 to 2010 is under license Attribution-Non commercial- No Derivs (CC BY-NC-ND). You are free to: Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format. Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use... NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.. 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THE LEGACY OF INSTRAW IN PROMOTING THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN A HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE INSTITUTE BETWEEN 1976 AND 2010 CONTENTS ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS 6 PREFACE 8 INTRODUCTION 9 CHAPTER I. CREATION OF INSTRAW (1976-1981) 13 Social, institutional and academic background 14 International Women’s Year and the Mexico Conference 19 Mandate: research, training and information 22 Headquarters and organizational structure 25 First INSTRAW publications 29 CHAPTER II. INSTRAW BECOMES ESTABLISHED (1982-1992) 33 Status of INSTRAW when work got under way in Santo 34 Domingo INSTRAW’s research, training and information goals 39 Research 40 Training 41 Information: compilation and dissemination 42 Alliances, networking and focal points 44 INSTRAW’s output 46 Statistics, Indicators and Data on Women 47 Women and the Informal Economy 50 Women and the International Economy 51 Sectoral Programmes 51 a) Water and Sanitationl 52 b) Sources of New and Renewable Energy 54 56 CHAPTER III. INSTRAW IN CRISIS (1993-2003) From the proposed merging of INSTRAW and UNIFEM to the 57 ratification of the Institute’s mandate: 1993-1995 The crisis pre 1999 and fresh efforts to relaunch 60 Output 63 CHAPTER IV. RELAUNCH OF INSTRAW (2004-2010) 69 Towards a new strategic plan 70 Output 75 Democratic governance and local political participation 76 THE LEGACY OF INSTRAW 4 IN PROMOTING THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN Migration and development 79 Peace and security 82 Establishment of UN Women and INSTRAW 83 85 CONCLUSIONS 89 BIBLIOGRAPHY Annex 1: Resolution No. 357, approving the Agreement and its 111 annex signed between the Dominican Republic and the United Nations. Annex 2: Composition of Board of Trustees responsible for the 119 INSTRAW mandates, from 1984 to 1998 List of figures, tables and illustrations Figure 1. INSTRAW’s output 1982-2011 broken down by the 10 components of its mandate Table 1. INSTRAW’s output 1982-2011 broken down by the 11 components of its mandate. Percentages Timeline 1. Main International Declarations and Conventions on 15 the rights of women prior to the Mexico Conference: 1945-1967 Timeline 2. Main international events relating to women and 19 development: 1960-1985 Timeline 3. Creation of INSTRAW: 1976-1981 28 Figure 2. INSTRAW’s output 1982-1992 broken down by the 38 components of its mandate Figure 3. INSTRAW’s output 1982-1992 by region 39 Table 2. INSTRAW Organogram 43 Figure 4. INSTRAW’s output 1982-1992 by topic 46 Table 3. NSTRAW’s output and contributions received 1993- 64 2003 broken down by the components of its mandate Figure 5. PINSTRAW’s output 1993-2003 broken down by the 65 components of its mandate Figure 6. INSTRAW’s output 1993-2003 by topic 66 Figure 7. INSTRAW’s output 1993-2003 by region 68 Table 4. INSTRAW Directors 70 Figure 8. INSTRAW output 1993-2003 by topic 71 Figure 9. UN-INSTRAW Core and Extra-budgetary funding 1987- 73 2008 Figure10. INSTRAW output 1993-2003 broken down by the 74 components of its mandate Figure 11. INSTRAW output 1993-2003 by region 76 Figure 12. Continuous feedback loop 80 A HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE INSTITUTE 5 BETWEEN 1976 AND 2010 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ACABQ Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions BT Board of Trustees CAWTAR Centre of Arab Women for Training and Research CPC Committee for Programme and Co-ordination CSW Commission on the Status of Women CWGL Centre for Women’s Global Leadership DAW Division for the Advancement of Women DCAF Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces DIASA International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade ECA Economic Commission for Africa ECE Economic Commission for Europe ECLAC Economic Commission for Latin America ECOSOC Economic and Social Commission ESCAP Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific FAO Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations FIIAP International and Ibero-American for Administration and Public Policies FLACSO Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences FP Focal Points F/U Figure unavailable GA General Assembly GAINS Gender Awareness Information and Networking System GE Group of Experts GEAR Gender Equality Architecture Reform GRULAC Latin American and Caribbean Group ICAO International Civil Aviation Organisation IDB Inter-American Development Bank ILO International Labour Organisation IN INSTRAW News INAMU National Institute of Women- National Policy on Gender Equality and Equity INSTRAW International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women IOM International Organisation for Migration ISDEMU Salvadoran Institute for the Advancement of Women JIU Joint Inspection Unit MINUSTAH United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti N/D No date NGO Non-governmental Organisation NIEO New International Economic Order OSAGI Office of the Special Advisor on Gender Issues OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Office for Security and Cooperation in Europe THE LEGACY OF INSTRAW 6 IN PROMOTING THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN PAHO Pan American Health Organisation ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS PPD Programa de Prevención y Preparación ante Desastres (Disaster prevention and prepa ration programme) PRIGEPP Regional Programme for training in Gender and Public Policy PROCASUR Corporación Regional Programa de Capacitación en Desarrollo Rural (Regional corporation of the programme for training in rural development) PROWESS Promotion of the Role of Women in Water and Environmental Sanitation Services SAIC Spanish Agency for International Cooperation SAIDC Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation SG Secretary- General of the United Nations SNA System of National Accounts UN United Nations UN DESA UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UN Women United Nations Organisation dedicated to Gender and the Empowerment of Women UNCSDHA UN Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation UNFPA United Nations Population Fund UN-Habitat United Nations Human Settlements Programme UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund UNIFEM United Nations Development Fund for Women UNMIL United Nations Mission in Liberia UNRISD United Nations Research Institute for Social Development UNSO United Nations Statistical Office, now Statistics Division UNU United Nations University USPHR Universal System for the Protection of Human Rights VITA Vida, Interacción, Trabajo y Ambiente (Life, interaction, work and environment) WEDO Women’s Environment and Development Organisation WHO World Health Organisation A HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE INSTITUTE 7 BETWEEN 1976 AND 2010 PREFACE This publication, “The legacy of INSTRAW in needed to be carried over to and highlighted for the promoting the rights of women.
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