Inside GMO 2017-2018 Annual Report

In the fiscal 2017/2018, Annual Report GMO mainly focused on enhancing accountability mechanisms in the public and private institutions by ensuring effectiveness of GBV service delivery, and improving communication for gender equality achievements and focuses on key realized achievements vis-a-vis the institutionalization of gender accountability and service delivery to victims of gender based violence.

Throughout the fiscal year, GMO’s performance on key activities implemented enunciated through Government pillars like Transformational Governance, Social Transformation pillar and Economic Transformation pillar.

1.       Transformational Governance

In line with transformational Governance, GMO has contributed to strengthening gender accountability in public institutions, and Fixed based Operators (FBOs), enhancing institutional capacity on gender accountability, generation of gender data across sectors for evidence based planning and decision making, enhancing gender responsiveness in laws, policies and strategies, monitoring compliance with regional and international gender related commitments and monitoring the effectiveness of GBV prevention and response mechanisms.

2.       Social Transformation pillar

GMO undertook the development of gender status in health and energy sectors in the framework of ensuring quality standards of living for both men and women. In addition, a gender responsive assessment on VUP and Girinka was conducted.

3.       Economic Transformation pillar

Moreover, in the framework of economic transformation and in line with the Country’s commitment on financing for gender equality, an audit on the implementation status of gender budget statement was conducted. This aimed to measure the levels to which budget agencies work towards promoting gender equality and fight against gender based violence.

This report involves key achieved results such persisting gender gaps where by Institutional development of GMO were initiated to enabled them serving for gender equality   through Updating public institutions gender data, Stock management, Resource mobilization and Capacity Building and Training all were address in this report.

Even though, during fiscal year 2017-2018 several activities were performed, a number of challenges were noticed in this Report, such Limited capacity and gender expertize to inform effective gender mainstreaming across sectors and programs, Limited collection and use of sex disaggregated data and Gender neutral accountability mechanisms. But the report denotes progressive improvements in delivering to gender equality though more efforts greatly needed.

Gender Monitoring Office was instituted with the mandate of monitoring and evaluating the implementation of gender principles and the fight against Gender Based Violence. While contributing to government orientation of having a society where citizens have equal rights between men and women and will continue to ensure that gender accountability is institutionalized at all levels for inclusive and sustainable development.