“Gender Equality” Strategy Paper Spanish Development...

Notas: Resumen: The Spanish Cooperation’s Strategy Paper for “Gender Equality” constitutes the basic instrument for meeting the gender priorities included in the Master Plan, Act 23/1998 of 7 July on International Development Cooperation, and Act 3/2007 of 22nd March on Effective Equality between Women and Men, within the development policy. It is aimed at all Spanish Cooperation actors, and is intended to serve both as mechanism of reference and implementation for facilitating development policy management through all of its instruments, and as a cohesive element for strengthening policy coherence amongst the different administrations, as well as promoting complementarity and harmonization amongst all the Spanish Cooperation actors involved within gender and development actions. Moreover, it once again takes up the Beijing Platform as a road map, focusing on women’s human right (WHR) as the way to better reduce poverty, and positioning a Gender and Development based (GAD) approach with a dual strategy of integration and empowerment as an effective proposal for reducing discrimination against women. This is new since it incorporates, horizontally and sectorally, the operative application of the Paris Declaration principles to GAD actions