WHO gender strategy

WHO commits to gender equity in health, in line with the Millennium Development Goals. The WHO Strategy for integrating gender analysis and actions into the work of WHO, was endorsed in resolution WHA60.25 at the Sixtieth World Health Assembly in May 2007. The strategy calls for the mainstreaming of gender equity approaches throughout WHO in order to support Member States in achieving gender and health equity. The strategy builds on the WHO gender policy of 2002.

The WHO gender strategy has four strategic directions:

• building WHO capacity for gender analysis and planning
• bringing gender into the mainstream of WHO’s management
• promoting the use of sex-disaggregated data and gender analysis
• establishing accountability

WHO gender mainstreaming strategy

Global conventions, platforms, resolutions and protocols

Fourth World Conference on Women: Beijing Platform for Action (1995)

Mainstreaming the gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system (1997/2)

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (A/RES/54/4)

UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on women, peace and security

Millennium Development Goals

Review of Economic and Social Council agreed conclusions 1997/2 on mainstreaming the gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system (2004/4)

Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Resolution 2008/34 Mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system