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Since 1979, the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW; (スペイン語:Instituto Internacional de Investigación y Capacitación de las Naciones Unidas para la Promoción de la Mujer) ; (フランス語:Institut International de Recherche et de Formation pour la Promotion de la Femme)) has been the leading United Nations body of the research, knowledge management and capacity development of gender equality and women's empowerment. The Institute's participatory and innovative approaches to research have produced gender disaggregated data and research results that have served to better inform the design of training and capacity-building programmes and to strengthen stakeholder capacity to address and effectively integrate gender perspectives in all policies, programmes and projects. UN-INSTRAW works in partnership with governments, the United Nations System, civil society and academia. == Organization == The Institute is a subsidiary of the United Nations General Assembly. It was established upon recommendation of the World Conference on the International Women's Year 1975 in Mexico through the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and started operations in 1979. Since 1983, its main offices have been located in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. It focuses on the advancement of women through research and training and financed through contributions mostly given by governmental organizations or private donors. Since its inception, UN-INSTRAW has emphasized the importance of articulating research, capacity-building and knowledge management in a continuous cycle of analysis, learning and action, so that participatory research results feed into knowledge management and the design of training and capacity-building programmes, as well as the formulation of policy. Through its applied research programmes, the Institute aims to make policies and programmes gender-responsive on the basis of concrete research results, the application of lessons learned, and the replication of best practices. This approach allows for flexibility in responding to both existing challenges and new and emerging issues. Among its research activities over the years, UN-INSTRAW has developed conceptual frameworks and research methodologies for measuring and valuing women’s household production and including these contributions into the system of national accounts; for tracking women’s migration, the gender dimensions of remittances, and the impact of these on local and rural development; for looking at women’s access to credit and water in Africa, Asia and Latin America; and for evaluating women’s political participation in governance and political processes at the local, national, regional and international levels. Many of the studies conducted by UN-INSTRAW have highlighted the gendered effects of globalization in processes such as migration; the impact of structural adjustment policies on women’s access to work, health and education; and violence against women as an obstacle to development and the achievement of international commitments such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) or the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In the past, UN-INSTRAW’s training and capacity-building programmes have highlighted gender dimensions and women’s participation in the collection and analysis of data and statistics, the use of new information and communications technologies (ICTs), environmental management including water supply and sanitation and new and renewable sources of energy; and the portrayal of women in the media. UN-INSTRAW’s current work in training and capacity-building focuses on women’s political participation and governance at the local level; women’s participation in peace and security processes, including the full implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325; and gender, migration and development issues. In December 2003, INSTRAW initiated an institutional revitalization process designed to: * re-build trust in the Institute and its capacity to deliver; * generate recognition of the value of INSTRAW’s research and training work both within the UN System and externally through programmes and products that are reliable, innovative, and opportune; * improve the financial situation of the Institute by securing core and extra-budgetary financial and other resources; and * establish cooperative partnerships with other UN entities in order to strengthen the Institute’s position within the UN System and support system-wide coherence. As a result of the implementation of this revitalization process and the UN-INSTRAW Strategic Framework 2004-2007, the Institute has achieved: * a significant and steady increase in both core and extra-budgetary funding, both of which are now at the highest levels they have reached since UN-INSTRAW was established; * the development of pioneering research, knowledge management and capacity-building tools in the Institute’s three thematic areas (Gender, migration, and development; Gender, peace and security; and Governance and women’s political participation); * a significant change in UN-INSTRAW’s worldwide visibility and recognition through the formation of strategic alliances and an increased presence in the media worldwide; and * recognition and congratulation from UN Member States in ECOSOC, the General Assembly and other fora for the progress achieved since December 2003, including an ECOSOC Resolution (2007/37 of 27 July 2007) adopted by consensus, endorsing the UN-INSTRAW Strategic Framework 2008-2011, which carries forward the priorities established in 2004, consolidating the Institute’s research and training programmes and enhancing its knowledge management capacity to ensure that research results have a concrete impact on policy and programme formulation and implementation. In its work, UN-INSTRAW promotes an interactive dialogue between civil society, governments and international organizations through the creation of networks and the continual dissemination of gender-related information. The Institute has created networks, working groups and other communities of practitioners and stakeholders on various issues, including gender and security sector reform, ending violence against women, women’s political participation, gender and remittances and other issues. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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