Recommendation Response Actions Responsibility Strengthen country prioritisation and strategic planning Recommendation 1.1: PGEP to work more intensively with a smaller number of countries for the duration of the project, namely those in Groups 1 and 2, and supporting Group 3 PICs through South-South exchange, regional efforts or coordinated efforts with other development partners. Agree, but SPC proposes a different clustering system based on twin track work on Gender Mainstreaming and Gender Statistics, and on experience of which countries have requested supported. The Groupings for Phase 2 of the program will be determined during the design phase. Technical Assistance in Gender Mainstreaming: Group 1: Support with a comprehensive approach to technical assistance in: Cook Islands, FSM, Palau, RMI, Solomon Islands, Tonga Group 2: Specific interventions when countries request, possibly in collaboration with other SPC’s programmes (fisheries, climate change, land divisions) to Tuvalu, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Niue, and Fiji Group 3: Occasional support through regional activities and coordinated efforts with other development partners if required by the countries, for PNG, Nauru, and Samoa Technical Assistance in Gender Statistics Group 1: Countries where statistics are produced but support is needed for analysis: Tonga, Palau, Cook Islands, Samoa, Vanuatu, FSM, RMI Group 2: Countries where support is needed in producing and analysing gender statistics: Fiji, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Tuvalu and Solomon Islands Group 3: No support is planned until the (potential) next phase of the project – PNG, Niue, and Nauru All: As data becomes available from the 2016-2020 Census of Population and Housing, PICs will be producing Gender Fact Sheets. Gender Profiles from SPC
DFAT will continue to raise the issue of gender and gender mainstreaming in the Annual DFAT/SPC High Level Consultation. Improve coordination and communication with other development partners Recommendation 4.1: DFAT (primarily through Pacific Women), PGEP and UN Women to strengthen regional and national planning and coordination. Agree PGEP team has already started to work with UN Women to map respective programs across all PICs in order to increase knowledge and strengthen coordination. The PGEP team has shared this document with DFAT and the Support Unit and a meeting has taken place to include Pacific Women activities in this mapping exercise. PGEP and the Support Unit will meet on a bi-monthly basis to ensure coordination of Pacific Women Gender Adviser’s work with PGEP program activities. The PGEP team will be invited to Pacific Women Gender Adviser Community of Practice events. Whenever possible, SPC-PGEP, DFAT-Pacific Women, and UN Women to conduct joint planning and review mission in countries. SPC will ensure that DFAT Posts are advised of the timings of their in-country visits and have an opportunity to meet with visiting teams. SPC and DFAT (including through Pacific Women Support Unit)
Recommendation 4.2: PGEP to develop a regional online platform for sharing learning and lessons between PICs. Partially agree DFAT, through the Pacific Women’s Research Strategy Advisory Group is collectively planning for a Pacific ‘Research Clearing House’. SPC is on this Group and will contribute to the development of an online research platform to share research lessons and findings. The Pacific Women Support Unit will complete a website update before June 2017. As a program funded under Pacific Women, SPC will share lessons and findings through the ‘Research, Evaluation and Learning’ page on the revamped Pacific Women website. The Support Unit will work with SPC to develop a number of evaluation briefs based on the PGEP evaluation findings. These resources will be developed before June 2017. SPC and DFAT (through Pacific Women Support Unit) Build south-south learning and exchange Recommendation 5.1: PGEP to identify gender specialists for South-South exchanges on sector-based gender mainstreaming, and other opportunities for South-South exchanges on gender statistics analysis. Agree SPC proposes a 2-step process: 1) identify sectoral initiatives that are addressing gender issues in a selection of countries and specialists working in the sectors; 2) explore modalities for effective South-South exchange. SPC Recommendation 5.2: PGEP to reframe regional trainings so they are part of a strategy supporting South-South exchange. In process Regional trainings will maximise South-South exchange to the fullest extent possible. Strengthen and align monitoring, learning and reporting processes