The aim of this manual is to help guide programmatic interventions in e-waste and plastic waste management on effectively incorporating gender. It provides simple step-by-step guidance on designing, implementing and monitoring programs with a conscious gender lens along with examples from the sector.
Gender mainstreaming refers to “the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels. It is a strategy for making women’s as well as men’s concerns and experiences an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in all political, economic and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated. The ultimate goal is to achieve gender equality.”