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DPODs gender commitment


DPOD has joined the UNs Millennium Development Goals 3 Champion Torch "To Do Something Extra"

In 2000 an unprecedented global consensus was made by the member states of the United Nations adopted. It is called the “Millennium Declaration” and is a call to cut extreme poverty in half by 2015. All major international organizations as well as many civil society and private sector organizations support this declaration.

To make the commitments more manageable 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDG) were selected, and a time limit for reaching the goals was set to 2015 to underline the urgency of the commitments.

The MDGs form part of the international political and legal framework on gender equality and womens empowerment that most UN member states have committed to impliment, ie. translate into national policies, legislation and concrete action.

 

The MDG3 Champion Torch: “To Do Something Extra”

To make sure that governments, organisations, the private sector and opinion leaders UN has made a "the MDG3 Champion Torch". The initiative aims at accelerating progress on gender equality and women’s economic empowerment.

At least 100 torches are travelling around the world. Each of them symbolises action taken to break the vicious cycle of poverty, illiteracy and lack of basic rights as experienced by millions of women in developing countries. Each time one of the torches changes hands, a new pledge to do something extra to promote gender equality and empowerment of women has been made.

At the UN High-Level meeting in September 2008, the torches and a catalogue of pledges will be presented to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The Secretary-General will be invited to accept the final torch.

 

DPODs commitment

On 7th March 2008 the Global MDG3 Champion Torch was launched in Copenhagen and through "Gendernet" - a danish network of non-govermental organisations interested in Gender - DPOD has now joined the MDG3 Champion Torch committing it self to;

  • Implement a gender policy including a two-year project uncovering the barriers for an equal representation of both sexes in DPOD

  • Implement a gender strategy in relation to DPOD’s development programmes and projects in Africa and Asia

 

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