CSN_UNECE Gender Responsive Standards Initiative_Session_30-03-2021 (v2).pdf
CSN session: UNECE Gender Responsive Standards Initiative
30th March 2021
13:00-14:00 GMT/UTC
Background:
As part of the Commonwealth Standards Network’s (CSN) objectives to promote good practices in the use and development of international standards we will be running an online session from 13:00-14:00 (GMT/UTC) on 30th March to discuss the UNECE Gender Responsive Standards Initiative.
The UNECE Gender Responsive Standards Initiative provides a practical way for standards bodies wishing to take a step towards making the standards they develop and the standards development process they follow gender responsive, it aims to:
· Strengthen the use of standards and technical regulations as powerful tools to attain SDG 5 (Achieve Gender Equality and Empower all Women and Girls),
· Integrate a gender lens in the development of both standards and technical regulations,
· Elaborate gender indicators and criteria that could be used in standards development.
Open access via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95558520433
Presenters:
· Host:
o Stephanie Eynon: Chair of the UNECE Gender Responsive Standards Initiative
· Panellists and Presentations:
o Emmanuel Gatera, Rwanda Standards Board (RSB)
o Gabrielle White, Standards Council of Canada (SCC)
o Michelle Parkouda, Standards Council of Canada (SCC)
o Judith Fessehaie, SheTrades.
Topics:
· What is the UNECE Gender Responsive Standards Initiative?
· Why is it important?
· What is the UNECE Gender Responsive Standards Declaration?
· How to adopt the declaration
· How to create NSB action plans and implement changes.
· ISO IWA 34:2021 ‘Women's entrepreneurship — Key definitions and general criteria’
The discussions will conclude with a Q&A session.
Please feel free to provide questions or comments beforehand by contacting the CSN Senior Programme Manager Ben Hedley ben.hedley@bsigroup.com
