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Annual Report 2010 / 2011

… male and female, He created them


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EED’s gender strategy follows a two-pronged approach: integration of gender analysis and measures into all its programs and procedures and targeted funding of projects committed to improving the lives of women. The annual report before you takes a look at this latter aspect of our gender strategy.
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Encounter beyond routine


Documentation on an International Consultation, 17th-23rd January 2010
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Nine examples of community based empowerment processes.
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Gender Equality

Building Equal Opportunities for All

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”

Frau mit Hacke, Limpopo Province | © TCOE / Siphiwe Sibeko
Bild vergrößern "Woman with Hoe", from the Exhibition: Our Land ... Our Life ... Our Future
EED has taken this sentence from Genesis to its heart. It has enshrined the goal of “promoting equal opportunities for women and men and removing the existing injustices in relations between the sexes” in its Mission Statement. All departments within the organisation are working on this together. For EED, equal opportunities mean that women and men
  • Have equal access to resources
  • Are equal under the law
  • Have an equal right to take part in political decisions
  • Do not have to suffer any violence
  • Can shape their lives for themselves
  • Question the patriarchal power and ways of thinking in society.
We try to realise this statement in two areas:

Equal opportunities in EED: An important goal

For EED, equal opportunities mean honouring the achievements and creative potential of men and women without making any distinctions. Male and female employees should shape and further develop EED equally.

EED wants women and men to be able to combine work and their personal lives well – especially if they care for others - in addition to their work.

EED’s equality plan arranges for a 50 per cent quota of women and men in all areas. Various measures support implementation:

  • Motivation to apply for vacancies
  • Programmes to maintain contact and help with reintegration, e.g. with parental leave
  • Equal staffing of boards and committees
  • Positions being filled by part-time employees
  • Mentoring programme for women
  • Integration of the equality idea in personnel development
  • Job sharing in the management

Gender Equality Through Programmes and Projects

EED supports projects that develop and realise new role models. All over the world it works with organisations that fight for equal opportunities for women and men.

In 2005 EED and Bread for the World adopted a joint gender strategy: We are closing the gap between theory and practice – A strategy for action to promote equal opportunities for women and men with the EED and Bread for the World projects (2006-2010) This is the foundation for promoting gender equality in programme work.

EED regularly examines its own projects and programmes – in Germany and aboard. It examines

  • Whether men and women are involved in decision-making processes
  • How they are involved
  • What impact the work has on the sexes.
EED is committed to a double strategy towards achieving more gender equality:
  • On the one hand, it has adopted the gender mainstreaming strategy. This means that the different impacts on men and women must be considered in all decisions.
  • Moreover, EED holds on to the idea of empowerment for women.
You will find more information in the brochure: Ways towards development cooperation that is fair to women.