Question

Roles and responsibilities of social gender and community mobilization

Answer 1

SOCIAL GENDER : To study the problems of gender equality is of great importance for the global business. Gender is a cultural construct, within which our different cultures attach different values, roles and responsibilities to women and men. However, in addition to culture, the gender issues are in close relation with the global business. From this viewpoint, experience of the West is considerable and of great importance. It can be said that the problems of women’s rights and a whole number of barriers, which impede to reach the gender equality have long been a great problem for the leading countries of Europe and America. But one problems remains – the so-called „glass ceiling” – the barriers, which impede carrier advance of the female representatives. At the same time, in the countries on the stage of low development, women are still considered to be minor creatures, which do not have the rights for not only work, but education equal to men. To this are added the religious laws of Islamic countries, which radically separates the rights of women and men from one another and often consider women’s public activities inacceptable. In the background of such diversity it is interesting to familiarize with the apprehension of gender equality in Georgia. 

COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION : The Corporate Programme Monitoring Board (CPMB) provides coordination and governance for resource mobilization, allocation and management. It is also a forum for open dialogue between headquarters and the regions on harmonization, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement of the resource mobilization effort. It is the responsibility of all staff to participate in the mobilization of resources to support agreed priorities, particularly in contributing ideas for project formulation. Senior Managers are however, expected to guide this process. It is the responsibility of all FAO managers and senior officers to ensure that teams under their supervision contribute to the mobilization of resources to achieve SO results in priority areas of work identified in the CARMs, RIs and CPFs. Senior Managers also have a role as Project Formulators, as set out in the policy document Project Cycle and Strategic Framework: Basic principles and guidelines. A certain discipline is required to avoid situations where staff members would be approaching donors: i) with different messages/sense of priority; and ii) to fund activities not within FAO agreed priorities for resource mobilization.