Gender mainstreaming is a strategy for achieving gender equality by ensuring that both women and men have equal access to opportunities and resources at all levels of development. The concept was first proposed in 1985 and formally featured at the 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing. The Election Commission of Pakistan supports gender mainstreaming and increasing women's participation in the electoral process, such as through its Gender Corner and using technology like social media. Ensuring conditions like political rights, citizenship, and access to information can help promote gender equality.

1. GENDER MAINSTREAMING
ZIA UR RAHIM
ELECTION OFFICER
BANNU

2. What is it?

3. ?
 Is a strategy for achieving gender equality
 Strategy to end gender blindness in development
process.
 Ensures women & men, girls & boys have equal
access to & control over resources, opportunities &
benefits at all levels.
WHAT IS GENDER MAINSTREAMING?

4. GENDER MAINSTREAMING
Gender mainstreaming is a strategy for developing
policies, legislation, programs, projects, society
and community’s development plans from gender
equality perspective in order to benefit both
women and men.
 Gender Mainstreaming is a globally accepted strategy
for promoting gender equality.

5. CONCEPT
 The concept of gender mainstreaming was
first proposed at the 1985 Third World
Conference on Women in Nairobi, Kenya.
The idea has been pushed in the United
nations development community.
The idea was formally featured in 1995
at the World Conference on Women in Beijing.

6. ELECTION SYSTEM IN PAKISTAN

7. PERCENTAGE OF WOMEN IN PAKISTAN
 Male female ratio or percentage of women as
compared to men in Pakistan is 51:49 .
 It means that women are 51% of the total population
of the country while men are 49%.

8. IMPORTANCE OF GENDER EQUALITY
 Everyone has human rights.
 If half the population has restricted or limited access to
relevant learning opportunities, a community’s social and
economic development will be limited.
 Necessary for sustainable human development (gender
equality linked with poverty reduction).
 Women /Men are both drivers of social and economic
development.

9. ECP SUPPORT MAINSTREAMING
 Election Commission (ECP) of Pakistan support
gender mainstreaming and greater political
participation of women.
 ECP trying to increase women participation in
electoral process.

10. GENDER CORNER IN ECP

11. WOMEN & ELECTION
Women do face serious social, cultural and logistical
problems restricting their full and active participation in
the democratic process of Elections.
The Government and civil society must have to work
for the promotion of greater participation of women in
electoral processes .

12. TECHNOLOGY & ELECTIONS
ECP have to use the following to involve the women in
voting system:
 Social Media
 Television
 District Voter Committee

13. CONDITIONS FOR GENDER EQUALITY
 Political Rights.
 Citizenship.
 Conducting elections.
 Registration of voters.
 The right to vote.
 Right to stand in public office.
 Voter education.
 Right to express political opinion.

14. CONTINUE,
 Right to access to information
 Right to freedom of association, assembly and
movement
 Right to campaign
 Secrecy of ballot paper.
 Review of electoral procedures or decisions

15. THANK YOU