Gender Equality Plan
2
Institutional governance: Gender balance in decision-making bodies
Objective
To achieve gender balance in institutional governance by eliminating any barriers that prevent women from reaching leadership positions and enabling them to participate in all decision-making spheres.
Engendering institutional governance: Improvement of gender balance in decision-making bodies
Measure 2.1
An effective cultural and organizational change towards gender equality requires well thought policies and the structural integration of gender equality in the organization, including the composition of decision-making bodies. This refers not only to gender balanced membership, but also to the integration of genderaware members in such bodies.
This measure seeks the double objective of ensuring an equal representation of women and men in boards and committees and promoting awareness by members of governance boards about the importance of gender equality in institutional governance and the need to gradually transform the organization to allow overcoming structural inequalities.
Main actions:
- To analyse the possibilities of regulating the equal representation of women and men in governing boards.
- To carry out a training action on gender equality to the Governing Board.
- To promote the candidacies of women to positions in governing boards.
ICM’s gender equality mechanism and instrument: institutionalizing ETF and GEP
Measure 2.2
Any positive structural change in an institution should turn irreversible. Thus, it is a priority to guarantee sustainable conditions that will permanently establish gender equality as a value, leading to a systemic institutional change. Furthermore, it is important to promote, as a regular practice, the deployment of gender equality actions and to address gender biases in the ICM.
To promote the institutionalization and resilience of gender equality, this measure proposes an intervention with a double and joint approach: Promote the Equality Task Force (ETF) as a reference mechanism concerning gender issues.
The GEP should be promoted as the institutional tool that incorporates transformative actions into the organization, aligned with the full commitment and compliance of gender equality principles.
Main actions:
- To make explicit the commitment of ICM towards the incorporation of gender equality as a corporate value, with the institutional establishment of the GEP.
- To negotiate a yearly financial institutional budget for the development of GEP commitments.
- Institutional annual budget for the Equality Task Force.
- To establish joint and coordinated GEP mechanisms for the ETF and the different institutional units involved in the implementation of the GEP.
- To design and implement internal and external communication and dissemination strategies regarding the GEP.
- To create a space on equality in the institutional website acting as a resource on gender equality with tools and materials available on the subject, as well as providing information on GEP actions.
- To create a friendly version of the ICM’s GEP and disseminate it in a specific website specifically designed for this purpose.
Gender Monitoring
Measure 2.3
Collection of relevant gender information concerning the organization constitutes the starting point of any GEP aimed at promoting processes of structural change aligned with compliance of the principle of equality. Data is crucial to make any kind of gender inequality visible and thus increase collective awareness. Data is also key for taking proper decisions about necessary measures to promote institutional change. Therefore, it is essential to improve the collection and provision of gender data.
Main actions:
- To facilitate guidelines from ICM Direction, leading to the systematic inclusion of gender in all data collection and in all statistics and reports produced by ICM.
- To identify and implement new indicators and analytical tools to monitor gender equality.
- To establish sustainable data collection procedures and tools to monitor evolution, and regularly assess the GEP.
- To incorporate the information requested by the ICM Task Force in the databases in order to allow a better and simpler monitoring and evaluation of the success of the measures.
- To monitor and evaluate the scope of the measures implemented within the framework of the GEP based on the available data and on the basis of the designed indicators.
- To present GEP reports to the concerned stakeholders.
