Gender Mainstreaming Checklist

2024-08-19
Gender mainstreaming is not meant to be an extra task, but rather it is the incorporation of gender perspective as one of our mainstream consideration factors in our daily work process. It is most important that we have good gender awareness and sensitivity and can identify the different perspectives and needs of both genders.

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Gender Mainstreaming Checklist for Government Staff

To assist government officers to implement gender mainstreaming, the Women's Commission has developed a Gender Mainstreaming Checklist for Government staff after taking into account overseas experience and local situation. The Checklist is an analytical tool containing a set of simple questions to assist the government officers in considering the different needs and perspectives of both genders in a more systematic way during the process of design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies.

The Checklist is intended to be applicable to all policies, legislations and programmes. Whilst it is not tailor-made for individual bureau and department, it allows consistency in application and sets a benchmark for evaluation. Furthermore, it can be applied to both new and existing policy, legislation and programme.

Gender Mainstreaming Checklist for Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) in the Social Welfare Sector

The Social Welfare Department (SWD) launched a pilot scheme in February 2016 to encourage NGOs in the social welfare sectors to apply gender mainstreaming when formulating policies and programmes.

An NGO, upon award of an SWD project, is required to complete and return Part One of the Gender Mainstreaming Checklist for conducting gender assessment on the project design and implementation. Part Two of the Gender Mainstreaming Checklist is about conducting a gender assessment on the monitoring, evaluation and review of the project. If the project is completed within one year, the NGO has to complete and return Part Two of the Gender Mainstreaming Checklist after completion of the project. If the project takes more than one year for completion, the NGO has to complete and return Part Two of the Gender Mainstreaming Checklist after the first year of implementation of the project. All completed Gender Mainstreaming Checklists (Part One and Part Two) have to be returned to the SWD office responsible for awarding the project.

29 May 2025