The program aims to provide a set of measures aimed at the introduction of gender-sensitive policies and planning in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, provide comprehensive measures to promote gender equality, ensuring gender equality in political, economic, social, cultural, and family relations. The program includes the following objectives. These include:
- Promoting gender equality in sustainable socio-economic development and enabling women and men to enjoy equal benefits from development;
- Implement gender-sensitive policy planning and budgeting at the national, sectoral, local, and organizational levels;
- implementation of comprehensive measures to combat and prevent violence and discrimination.
The program also recommends to deliver the "Gender Sensitivity Criteria in the Media" developed by UNESCO in cooperation with the International Association of Journalists and other partners to the related organizations and ensure its implementation, addresses such issues as elimination of gender stereotypes and discrimination in cultural and arts policy and activities and introduction of gender concepts.
In order to ensure gender equality, a Gender Policy has been adopted in the fields of education, culture, science, and sports, but the cultural sector issues have not been addressed.
| Name of partner | Type of entity |
|---|---|
Ministry of Culture
| Public Sector
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Culture and Arts Authority Implementing Agency of the Government of Mongolia
| Public Sector
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