UN-INSTRAW’s Strategic Frameworks emphasizes the importance of articulating research, training and information distribution in a continuous cycle of analysis, learning and action, so that research results feed into the distribution of information and the design of training and capacity-building programmes, as well as the formulation of policy. Through its applied research programmes, the Institute aims to make policies and programmes gender-responsive on the basis of concrete research results, the application of lessons learned, and the replication of best practices. This approach allows for flexibility in responding to both existing challenges and new and emerging issues.
In all of its work UN-INSTRAW promotes an interactive dialogue between civil society, governments and international organizations through the creation of networks and the continual dissemination of gender-related information. The Institute has created networks, working groups and other associations of practitioners and stakeholders on various issues, including gender and security sector reform, ending violence against women, women’s political participation, gender and remittances and other issues.
The UN-INSTRAW Strategic Framework 2004-2007 emphasized the importance of articulating research, training and information-sharing in a continuous cycle of analysis, learning and action, so that research results feed into the distribution of information and the design of training and capacity-building programmes, as well as the formulation of policy. Four years later, the UN-INSTRAW Strategic Framework 2008-2011 will carry forward the priorities established in 2004, consolidating the Institute’s research and training programmes and enhancing its knowledge management capacity to ensure that research results have a concrete impact on policy and programme formulation and implementation.
In July 2007, ECOSOC adopted by consensus a resolution endorsing the UN-INSTRAW Strategic Framework 2008-2011 and recent decisions of ECOSOC, the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly and the ACABQ have recognized and congratulated UN-INSTRAW for the revitalization efforts implemented and the progress achieved.
Publication of three studies on women’s political participation at the local level, national machinery for gender issues, and indigenous women’s political participation
Publication of two analytical studies on women’s political participation in Central America and the Andean Region
Completion of case study research on gender, migration, remittances and development in Botswana, Colombia, Guatemala, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, the Philippines, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe
Inter-agency meeting on Gender and Security Sector Reform as part of the joint UN-INSTRAW/DCAF/ODIHR project
The Institute signs an agreement with UN Foundation and the UN Fund for International Partnerships that establishes the Fund for UN-INSTRAW
Monthly hits to the Institute’s Website surpass 1,500,000
2006
UN-INSTRAW publishes the first qualitative research methodology on gender, remittances and development
Completion of the first in a series of case studies on the gender dimensions of remittances , focusing on Dominican women’s migration to Spain
Publication of Securing Equality, Engendering Peace: a guide to policy and planning on women, peace and security [link to gender, peace and security section on 1325], which looks at the full and sustainable implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325
The Institute establishes the Gender and Security Sector Reform Working Group
Launch of the Strengthening governance with a gender perspective and women's political participation at the local level project in Latin America (2006-2009)
The Institute launches the first-ever Gender Training Wiki , which brings together information on gender training materials, courses and centres throughout the world
Monthly hits to the Institute’s Website surpass 1,000,000
2005
The Institute publishes Crossing Borders: Gender, Remittances and Development , which sets out the conceptual framework for UN-INSTRAW’s research on gender, migration, remittances and development
The Institute publishes it’s series of progress reports on the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
Monthly hits to the Institute’s Website surpass 500,000
2004
UN-INSTRAW launches its new Website, which sets out the Institute’s research and training priorities for the next three years: Gender, Migration and Remittances; Governance and Women’s Political Participation; and Gender, Peace and Security
The first analytical framework for research on gender and security sector reform is published on the Institute’s Website
The Institute compiles the Gender Mainstreaming Resource Centre, which brings together conceptual and capacity-building resources on gender mainstreaming in various topics
