Planning for the next decade : a perspective of women in development

Administrator sent all Bureaus and Missions a memo detailing priority action items regarding the Agency"s women in development (WID) program. Oversight of the new initiative was entrusted to the WID Office, which has prepared this report on the subject for the U.S. Congress. The report presents the WID Office"s Strategic Workplan for FY 89 in terms both of areas of focus (labor/employment/production, economic policy reform and adjustment, and human capital development and social services) and activity (research and analysis, technical assistance, training, and information management). The report next identifies mechanisms developed by the WID Office to monitor Bureau and Mission progress in institutionalizing gender issues. These mechanisms include a project/activity tracking system, a set of indicators of compliance with the WID mandate, a Gender Information Network (an analytical tool for incorporating WID concerns into program and project planning), and an information packet instructing Bureaus and Missions how to address the Administrator"s WID Action Memo. WID Action Plans developed by the regional and central Bureaus are summarized. A comprehensive WID strategy, it is concluded, is now in place within all A.I.D. systems and procedures.