Capacity Building Trainings on Gender Concepts and Gender Mainstreaming to Strengthen Capacities of Security and Justice Sectors.

Project Overview

The SAWASYA II Joint Program (UNDP/UN Women/UNICEF) Promoting the rule of law in Palestine; was launched on 1 July 2018, with a budget of around USD 30 million, and ran until June 2023. The program is supported by the Government of the Netherlands, SIDA/Sweden, Spain, as well as corporate investment by UNDP/BPPS. The overall objective of the Joint Program is to strengthen the rule of law by developing efficient, accountable and harmonised justice and security institutions, which are gender-sensitive and rights-based while improving access to justice and security services for disadvantaged social groups, particularly women and girls. Recognising that, UN WOMEN supports the ‘justice and Security Institutions to increase their capacities to provide gender responsive services to VAW cases and mainstream gender perspectives into the polices, structure and practices. Within the framework of the SAWASYA II Joint Program, UN WOMEN planned to conduct a long-term training to build the capacity of security sectors, public Prosecution and high judicial Council actors on gender, gender concepts and gender mainstreaming tools and strategies. The overall objective to this assignment / workshops is to increase the awareness and sensitivity of the participants from security sectors, public Prosecution and high judicial Council towards gender issues, women’s rights and VAW and therefore enable them to integrate gender into key institutional documents and processes within their respective institutes, such as sectorial plans, monitoring and evaluation related processes and frameworks, in addition to recruitment and Human resources policies and practices; to this end, UN WOMEN has contracted GCT to implement this assignment in line with their requirements and expectations.