Capacities are usually needed in the following areas: • Gender awareness to assist policy makers and implementation staff to identify and address gender issues; • Gender analysis, which identifies differences between women and men in access to and control over resources, participation in decision making and benefits and the direct and indirect impact of policies, programmes and projects; • Gender. [...] The R&CD branch working with specialists versed in the disciplines associated with the various thematic areas of UN-Habitat and the related gender issues can provide the support required by promoting the collection of appropriate data by GUO and by ensuring that gender differences and gender inequalities and the effects of policies on gender are systematically and consistently addressed in the ana. [...] Improved knowledge of • Increased percentage of local and national governments sustainable, equitable and gender have used UN-Habitat equitable and gender responsive responsive urbanisation issues at best practices database, equitable and gender responsive the local and, national and global training and gender responsive capacity development levels tools and guidelines. [...] The Urban Research and Capacity Development branch directs its efforts towards the production of knowledge, the collection of sex-disaggregated data and analysis and monitoring the Habitat Agenda, the Millennium Development Goal targets and reporting results through global flagships reports and the urban Indicator Programme. [...] The objective of this gender issue guide on Urban Research and Capacity Development is to: • Increase understanding of gender concerns and needs in Urban Research and Capacity Development • Develop staff and partners’ capacity to address gender issues in select human settlement areas • Encourage staff and partners to integrate gender perspectives into policies, projects, and programmes for sustain.
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