Issues- Mainstreaming-SEPIA IV Indice

Inter-American Program for the Promotion of Women's Human Rights and Gender Equity and Equality

Integrating a Gender Perspective

in Ministerial-level Meetings

SEPIA IV -Gender and Science and Technology

Together with the CIM and the Gender Advisory Board of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development, the OAS Office of Science and Technology organized a meeting of experts to prepare recommendations on integrating a gender perspective in science and technology policies and programs. This meeting took place August 24-25, 2004, in Washington, D.C. The recommendations were presented to the First Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities on Science and Technology in the framework of CIDI-OAS, held November 10-11, 2004, in Lima, Peru, and adopted in full as one of nine Regional Initiative of the Ministerial Plan of Action.

See Plan of Action of the First Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities on Science and Technology in the Framework of CIDI/OAS

Meeting of Experts on Gender and Science and Technology

(Washington, D.C., August 24-25, 2004)

Agenda

List of Participants

Final Document:

Recommendations for Integrating a Gender Perspective in Science and Technology Policies and Programs in the Americas

Working Documents

Gender Equality and S&T Policy Knowledge and Policy at the International Level / S&T for Gender Equality and Social Development

Equidad de género en Ciencia y Tecnología en América Latina: Bases y proyecciones en la construcción de conocimientos, agendas e institucionalidades

Presentations

Remarks by Ambassador Luigi Einaudi, Assistant Secretary General of the OAS at the Inaugural Session of the Meeting of Experts on Gender and Science and Technology

The Gender Perspective in the Ministerial Process, Alice Abreu, Director of the Office of Science and Technology, OAS

Gender Mainstreaming in Other Strategic Areas – The SEPIA Initiative, Carmen Lomellin, Executive Secretary, Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM)

Women, Science and Technology, Renée Clair, Coordinadora del Programa Mujer, Ciencia y Tecnología Division of Basic and Engineering Sciences - UNESCO

World Report on Science, Technology and Gender -2005 and GenTeC Project, Eduardo Martinez, Chief of Section, Science and Technology Strategic Planning and Evaluation - UNESCO, Paris, France

Women in Science and Technology: An Optimistic View from a Historical Perspective, Julia Pou, Senator, Republic of Uruguay