High-level Intergovernmental Meeting to Review Regional Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and Its Regional and Global Outcomes, 16-18 November 2009, Bangkok

Questionnaire to Governments for collection of information and data to support regional national mechanisms for gender equality and the empowerment of women

Publication

Gender and Development Discussion Paper Series No. 22
In the Care of the State and the Family: Understanding Care of the Elderly through Macro and Micro Perspectives
This discussion paper will examine the provision of care for older people by linking various care at macro (national) and micro (individual or family) levels. This paper argues that these different levels are not mutually exclusive. On the one hand, products of macro level national policies, regulations and programmes must be compatible with the needs of target groups. Therefore, policy makers in particular, need to be well informed of what is really happening in people's lives at the micro level. On the other hand, individuals should be more aware of and better informed about programmes, regulations and activities that are relevant and useful to their interests. This paper also highlights the important role civil society groups can play in bringing macro policies and programmes into the day-to-day lives of the target groups and in helping those people to voice their concerns and interests at high-level forums.
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Information Materials
Challenges in the Asia-Pacific Region in Implementing the Beijing Platform for Action: Selected Issues
[311 kb, 24 pp]

Women and Armed Conflicted: A Regional Analysis on Asia and the Pacific
[146 kb, 20 pp]