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Expert Group Meeting
Munyonyo Speke Resort
Kampala, Uganda
23-24 June 2003
AAPS¨C Association of African Planning Schools
I. Background
The proposed gender-aware model to be presented for a review and endorsement by an Ad
hoc Expert Group Meeting on 7 - 9 May 2003 is for the African Centre for Gender and Development
(ACGD) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) to develop
for use by governments in Africa. The work aims to develop capacity in African
countries to provide a unique value-added to current poverty reduction strategies through
gender-aware national accounts and national budgets. This work was prompted by a strong
mandate of the United Nations General Assembly Resolutjon (1997) and the Beijing Platform
for Action (1995) to engender national development plans.
To launch this programme, ACGD developed in 2001 a conceptual framework for mainstreaming
gender perspectives into national accounts and national budgets. The framework,
which provides the basic knowledge to support valuation and integration of women's work in
these instruments was validated by an Expert Group Meeting in May 2002, Yaounde, Cameroon
and endorsed by African Policy makers in October 2002 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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