Gender mainstreaming and gender equality
Gender Mainstreaming is a globally accepted strategy for promoting gender equality. In a fast moving set up wholesome progress is sought by maintaining the equality between genders. Thus Mainstreaming is not an end in itself but a strategy, an approach, or a means adopted to achieve the goal of gender equality. Gender mainstreaming can be seen as a process of organizational change. It must be institutionalized through concrete steps, mechanisms, and processes in all parts of the organization. Karpos ensures that attention is given to gender perspectives as gender equality is essentially central to all activities such as policy development, research, advocacy/ dialogue, legislation, resource allocation, and planning, implementation and monitoring of programmes and projects.