Promote Gender Equality By 2013 GDG plans to achieve the following outcomes,

Outcome I civil society is actively contributing to CEDAW monitoring and has increased capacity to hold government accountable,
with the key emerging Lao civil society institutions, the INGOs and the local units of the Lao Womens Union have a clear understanding of CEDAW, of its significance for gender equity and womes empowerment, and of their role in CEDAW monitoring, and increase the broader public understanding of CEDAW and its significance through national mass media. Based on CEDAW 30 article, GDG will focus on article 14, rural women in particular on domestic violence issue, and women migration which is a priority in concluding observation from CEDAW committee, those above two foci were chosen also due to the fact that the Lao Government has limited information from the griund, CSOs play a key role in providing this information and analysis from the grassroot,
 Increased skills and knowledge on basic understanding and advancement of CEDAW for 22 member organizations, 60%-70% of NPAs, INGOs and mass organisations, and able to conduct CEDAW training in their target areas
 Data/information is collected on Women Human rights from at least 9 to 10 member organizations which working relate to women issues and changing lesson learnt
 Raised awareness of CEDAW and its significance of gender equity for district counterpart of members' target areas
 22 member organizations,60%-70% of NPAs, INGOs and mass organisations are able to apply CEDAW into their organization


Outcome II Reduced violence againstwomen through increased actions and venues,
 Sharing information on domestic violence and violence against female migrant workers for GDG members, NGOs and Government. With at least 6-7(27-31%) GDG member organizations will have gathered VAW data on domestic violence and violence against women workers in their project sites. All research results are featured in Lao National report for CEDAW committee.
 Increased awareness and understanding of VAW among the population of at least 6 provinces, with 50% of participants attending International VAW day campaigning with the ability to raise voice to say no violence against women.
 Increased reporting on Violence Against Women among ethnicminority communities in six provinces
 Increased knowledge of radio programmers on VAW, Laws andlegal system, and programmes delivered in 3 ethnic languages.

Outcome III increased cooperation, learning, accountability, good governance and leadershipamong member and partner organizations through active platform for learning and exchange among its members and a wider network of NPAs.  GDG and staff in member organization become more experienced on gender and VAW issues in various topics.Staff from10 member organisations have the capacity to apply the learning in their daily work. With
 Networking, shared lesson learnt and consultation working on planning and implementation with members organization, NPA, INGOs and local government counterpartand other stakeholder in 4 differences topic on Gender, VAW, CEDAW, Migration
 Accessible website for all members.

Outcome IV Increased gender awareness among ethnic minority communities with,
 Enhanced capacity on gender mainstreaming of at least50%ofgender staff members in 22 members organizations, with practical knowledge that staff can integrate in their project work.
 Increasing skillsand capacity building for district and village level to become a gender trainer in their village. 15 people of 22 people from district and village level can use knowledge to awareness gender in 22 villages of Sangthong district and 1,100 people of 22 villages understanding on gender and VAW issues.
 Enhanced knowledge and skills of at least 8 teachers fromfourschools in Sangthong district tointegrate gender in their teaching and promote gender leadership among students. 1,500 students in 4 schools understand the basic of gender and 50 students take up gender leadership.
Through  Training of Traineron Indigenous  women in decision making with 3 ethnic group, the Hmong, Khmu, and the Katang ethnic groups.

Outcome V Improved womes income and empowerment in Sangthong district (poorest district of Vientiane, the Capital) in 22 villages of Sangthong district. The project Sustainable Women Empowerment and Leadership programme is a partnership between the Lao Women Union (and district women union, DWU), SNV and WWF; and GDG specific role is to
 Systematically study, document and publish the results ofthe savings/loan component of the SWELP. The first pilot has been a very successful partnership, it is envisioned that this documentation will help replication and scale up in the future.
 Gender training of Trainer/leadership training throughout 22 villagesof Sangthong District and ensure that the results/impact are studied and documented. In particular, value and build on the experience of ToT with Khmu women village leaders.
 The income generation project with bamboo/banana fibre, in partnership with the District administration, the LWU, SNV and WWF in the current 15 villages (plus two more already planned) for 2-3 years, then completed and documented.
 Active women involvement in improving quality, training design and marketing of bamboo products. At least 5 women of 15 villages are nominated in handicraft group authority.
 GDG is successful in promoting sustainable utilization of natural resources, in particular bamboo.
 Lessons learned from Sangthong Sustainable Women Empowerment Projectis documented and disseminated outside of Santhong project sites; among GDG member organisations including study trip to Sangthong target villages; and the documents are posted on GDG website and Lao information centre, the Lao 44 website.

Outcome VI Achieving institutional and financial sustainability of GDG
 GDG legal registration as NPA is completed
 GDG becomes a NGO-governance model for others NPA.
 Diversified funding-based with at least two more donors
 GDG gains and sustains a regular income source through providing sevices/consultancies on gender related work to local partners, INGOs and UN agencies.