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Gender Sensitive Policy

: What is the Gender Impact Assessment System?; The policy gives women and men even benefits in considering the demands and differences according to gender when planning, executing, and assessing the policy.
- Analyze the actual conditions through the review of the objective materials and policy such as
gender statistics and the demand of the customers
- Grasp how the operation or the abolition of the policy affect women and men differently

: Reconsider the utilization and effect of the policy contributing to the satisfaction of both men and women by removing the element of the sexual discrimination; Prepare the substantial policies for gender equality that guarantee the joint participation of women and men and the opportunity of the equal development

The basic law of the women's development (Analysis, Assessment of Policy, ETC)
- Introduced to establish and enforce gender sensitive policy on Dec. 11th, 2002.

National and local governments should analyze and assess how the applicable policy influences the rights and interests and social participation of women in advance.

International Basis

- Clearly stated the necessity that they analyze both genders view about the policy by the
code of conduct of 4th World Conference on Women(1995)

→ Each country introduces Gender Sensitive Policy that is, Gender Impact Assessment System.
→ Enlargement of organization of Woman policy promotion and establishment of gender
sensitive budget

* Now, about 40 countries such as England(Gender impact assessment) and Canada(Gender analysis) and international organization such as UN, ILO and ETC are conducting the various types of Gender Impact Assessment System

: Gender Impact Assessment System; - The system analyzes the policy that affects genders.
(The basic law of women development)
- Reduce the additional social cost caused by the unintentional sexual discrimination; Extend the applicable organization from the local government to the public sector such as the public enterprises (for 10 years) and to the policy field closely related to the national life; - revitalize the statistics and utilization by the sexual separation and extend the public
  education with it.
* Application case
- Set the table where moms change their babies' diapers in the toilet of the park in
   [construction plan of the Kimpo New city], reflect the placement of the school and
   kindergarten that consider the woman's living sphere(2007).
- Reduce the expense of the health care after detecting that the men have
  the worse diabetes because they do not have the chance to undergo the diabetes
  tests while the women do before and after the childbirth.(Canada)

: The budget system of the Gender Sensitive; - Submit the report that reviews the government budget which
affects women and men at the district assembly
- Introduce the regulations based on the National Finance Act 2006 and became
effective in 2009; Prepare the budget plan of the Gender Sensitive and promote the exhibition application; (Cooperation of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance)

: Ministry of Gender Equality & Family: Operation and support of the system; - Assessment Support: development and distribute assessment guide and guide book,
  operation of the education course, provision of the consulting, promotion of the related
  research (In-depth assessment, ETC)
- improvement of the system : Inspection and support of the assessment result and the reflux
  plan
- Overall Assessment: analyze the assessment promotion results and provide the incentive; Central administrative and local government: Assessment Performance; - Designate and operate the Assessment department and the person in charge
- Establish the assessment promotion plan annually and publish the result report
- Policy improvement through the reflux of the assessment results
- Conduct the education of Self- Impact Assessment According to Gender

Work Experience history
The Standard of Selection	Policy Case
The policy that the gender difference of the receiving degree of the policy rises in the related statistics or the policy that the gender difference can rise in the future	· Support business that creates jobs · Business that fosters the farming successor · Business related to talent rearing
The policy with big budget scale and has the national interest at stake	· Information business · All kinds of fund business · Policy related to social safety net such as national pension, ETC
The policy with large receiving sphere and ripple effect	· Policy that deals with the low childbirth rate · Policy related to irregular jobs · All kinds of policy related to taxes

Work Experience history
Field	Contents of the Policy
Administration and Policy decision	· Amend the law related to the election · Train the internal and external public officials, administrate the public officials test, improve the business environment · Personal communication of the public officials, dispatch system, etc. · Operate the open position, administrate the national talent pool,etc.
Economic activities and Employment	· All kinds of system related to taxes such as income tax, property tax, consumption tax, etc. · Price stabilization measures, Policy to protect consumers, Improvement of the market economy system · Measurement for youth unemployment such as creation of the social jobs · Protection of the irregular workers, etc.
Education	· Development of the human nature education of elementary and middle school and the books for subjects, etc. · Educational welfare policy such as the support of the educationally shunned class · The teacher policy such as the education and study and training of teachers, etc. · Brain Korea business (BK21), etc.
Welfare	· Four insurances, all kinds of the health and heath care policy, improvement of the social welfare delivery system · Welfare of the old persons and the disabled persons, protection and rearing of children and adolescents · Operation of the basic livelihood security system, Support of the minimum cost of living · Preparation for the policy of the low childbirth, etc.
Culture Society Environment	· Support of the artistic and cultural activities, revitalization of living physical exercise, tourism rearing business · pollutant prevention of water, living sewage and poisoned materials, resources recycling policy such as wastes, etc. · Volunteers rearing and administration policy, etc.
Others	· Relief business such as the damage of storm and forest fire, etc. · Policy that supports North Korean defectors · Law and policy related to set up of the facilities, information business of the farm village, etc.

Work Experience history
Section	Assessment Indicator	Checking Point
Common Item	1. Production and revitalization of gender statistics	· Do the related law and the personnel statistics form of the guide divide the gender? · Do the policy plan and the resulting report use the personnel statistics according to the gender? · Do the statistics of making plan, Standard extract, Inspection table, Inspection, Analysis, announcement revitalize the view of the Gender Sensitive?
<1st Step> Policy Plan and Decision	2. Comprehension of the gender relations	· Are the different reality and demand related to the policy comprehended and reflected in the plan? - Check the demand of the citizens' groups and the difference of the satisfaction according to the statistics, etc. · Do the law, guide, basic plan, etc. related to the policy have the separated item about certain sex? · When preparing the alternative of the policy, is the gender considered as the main variable?
	3. Equal participation of both genders in policy decision process	· How is the rate of the gender of the committee related to policy consultation, deliberation and decision, etc? - Does the rate of the female member meet more than 30% of the minimum requirement? · The goal rate of 2008 is 40% according to the basic plan of the women policy.
	4. Gender equality of the compilation of the budget	· When formulating the budget, was the budget fixed according to the gender member and the gender policy? · Was the separated budget for the expected groups that will have the low receiving degree formulated?
<2nd step> Policy Execution	5. Gender equality of the delivery method of the Policy service	· Is not the gender approach about the policy service according to the service delivery system(path) different?
<2nd step> Policy Execution	6. Gender equality protecting method of the policy publicity	· Is not the gender recognition about the policy service according to the publicity method?
<3rd Step> Policy Assessment	7. Receiving policy(gender equality including the result of the budget distribution)	· Is the gender rate of the recipients of the policy equal when compared to the policy object population? · Is not there the variation of the gender in the scale of the budget funding? · Does the policy satisfaction represent the equal gender? · If there is the gender difference in the recipient and satisfaction, is the cause comprehended? · Consider the increasing and decreasing rate of the recipient and the percentage of employment, etc.
	8. Gender equality of the Policy impact	· Does the result of the policy execution contribute to the improvement of gender equality and the social and economic position of women? · Does the result of the policy execution influence the security of gender equality of the similar policy in the future?
	9. Improved plan of the assessment result policy	· If the gender variation exists in the assessment results, has the policy been improved for the increasing equality? - Laws, guide plan, demand of the budget, other plans, etc.