Unit 6: Staff and agencies working on gender issues

International Labour Organization
SEAPAT
South-East Asia and the Pacific Multidisciplinary Advisory Team
ILO/SEAPAT's OnLine Gender Learning & Information Module

Unit 6: Staff and agencies working on gender issues

ILO institutional arrangements for gender issues

ILO institutional arrangements for gender issues
Focal points on women and gender questions at ILO headquarters
Focal points on women and gender questions in ILO external offices

ILO institutional arrangements for gender issues

ILO's current institutional arrangements for gender issues came into existence in 1989. These new arrangements aim to:

facilitate and enhance planning and co-ordination of ILO activities on women workers throughout the Office
ensure more effective and rapid integration of equality concerns in all ILO activities

The institutional responsibility for promoting the mainstreaming of gender concerns is decentralised across the following units:

ILO unit	Description
Special Adviser on Women Workers' Questions	Responsible for: promotion and co-ordination of ILO policies, strategies, programmes and activities concerning equality for women in employment throughout the Office, both at HQ and in the field relations with ILO constituents representation of the Office on women workers' questions liaison with other international organisations, particularly in the UN system Main functions: policy advice on ILO priorities and objectives concerning women workers guidance to implement a coherent and strategic overall ILO programme for the advancement of the status of women in employment
Focal points (HQ technical departments)	Their role includes: to render departmental programs more sensitive to gender issues to strengthen the equality dimension in their activities to promote and monitor issues concerning women workers in their technical fields to ensure that equality concerns are taken into consideration in programme objectives and responsibilities in their respective technical areas
Senior Specialists on Women and Gender Questions (regions)	They are members of the multidisciplinary teams. Their role includes: to promote, co-ordinate and monitor activities concerning women workers to liaise with other organisations on gender issues in the world of work to represent the Office on such issues to collaborate with headquarters in identifying areas and means for priority action monitoring and reporting on developments promoting gender issues within the regions to mobilise the ILO field structure to take increasing account of gender issues in their programme and activities to promote and monitor women-specific activities, as necessary
Multidisciplinary Teams	Each of the 14 sub-regional MDTs has either a focal point on women and gender questions or a Senior Specialist on Women and Gender Questions.
WID Unit, Turin Centre	The Centre runs programmes to ensure the integration of women as agents in all aspects of development implements a specific Women in development programme with vertical and horizontal functions collaborates with regional and technical programmes to mainstream attention to gender issues runs specific courses at its International Training Centre to promote equal opportunities in employment

Focal points on Women and Gender Questions: ILO headquarters

The following is a list of gender focal points on women and gender questions at ILO Headquarters (updated as of March 2, 1998).

Unit	Name	Phone	Room No.
FEMMES (Office of the Special Adviser on Women Workers' Questions) E-mail: femmes@ilo.org
	Ms. Jane Youyun Zhang	41-22-799-6930	5-119
	Ms. Petra Ulshoefer	8462	5-113
	Ms. Ingeborg Heide	7521	5-105
	Ms. Min-Whee Kang	7867	5-123
	Ms. Christine Holo	7392	5-109
	Ms. Solveig Johansson/Guiliana Woods (secy.)	6730/7783	5-115
ACT/EMP	Ms. Luesette Howell	7085	9-113
ACTRAV	Ms. Amrita Sietaram	8706	10-99
BIBL	Ms. Laurel Dryden	8625	M2-105
CABINET	Ms. Alice Ouédraogo	6027	10-137
POLDEV	Ms. Azita Berar-Awad	6906	8-96
	Ms. Naoko Otobe	6477	8-90
EMPFORM
POLEMP	Ms. Lin Lim	7843	8-32
POLFORM	Ms. Eugenia Date-Bah	7908	8-83
REHAB	Ms. Evy Messell	6664	9-59
ENTREPRISE
Social Finance Unit	Ms. Ragna Fidjestol	8937	10-17
COOP	"Focal Point"
ENT/MAN	Ms. Josiane Capt	6478	11-23
INST	Ms. RoseMary Greve	6114	10-11B
IPEC	Ms. Nelien Haspels	6497	7-76
ITCOM	Ms. Lyn Sheeran	7917	1-144
NORMES
APPL	Ms. Jacqueline Ancel-Lenners	7743	6-135
EGALITE	Ms. Christine Elstob	7185	6-59
INF LEG	Ms. Patricia Isimat-Mirin	6748	6-103
LIBSYND	Ms. Karen Curtis	7090	6-75
	Ms. Shauna Olney (alternate)	8083	6-82
PERS
P/PLAN	Ms. Motoko Aritake	7248	4-84
PROGRAM	Ms. Mito Tsukamoto	8090	5-130
PROPAR/TEC	Ms. Kathy Hill (WID Coordinator)	7331	8-123
PUBLNS (REVUE)	Mr. Mark Lansky	8257	1-39
RELCONF
REL OFF	Ms. Eva Zabolai Csekme	6880	2-137
RELPROF
LEG/REL	Mr. Auret van Heerden	6156	5-62
ADMITRA	Ms. Naziha Gaham-Bouméchal	7236	5-104
SEC SOC
SEC/PDN	Ms. Carmen Solorio	6637	9-28
SECTOR
INDUSTR	Leyla Tegmo-Reddy	6416	3-103
MARIT	Mr. Brandt Wagner	7008	3-108
TRAVINT	Mr. Bill Ratteree	7143	3-138
STAT	Ms. Adriana Mata-Greenwood	6040	5-24
TF/CSG	Mr. Richard Anker	6450	10-135
TRAVAIL
SEC HYG	Ms. Valentina Forastieri	7746	7-114
CONDI/T
Turin Centre	Ms. Daniela Bertino	(39 11)6936 6521

Focal points on women and gender questions in ILO external offices

The following is a list of gender focal points on women and gender questions in ILO external offices and MDTs (updated as of March 2, 1998):

Place	Name	Phone/fax/e-mail
Africa
Abidjan AO	Ms. Rosaria Iorio
Algiers
Antananarivo	Ms. Farah Razafiarisoa
Cairo	Mr. Ahmed Tawfik
Dakar	Ms. Raky Kane
Dar es Salaam	Ms. Helle Poulsen
Kinshasa	Mr. Kavunga Kambale
Lagos	Ms. Cynthia Yinusa
Lusaka
Pretoria	Ms. Judica A. Makhetha	(27 12) 341 2170 (ph.) (27 12) 341 2159 (fax)
Yaoundé	Ms. Patou Keita
OIT/EMACO Abidjan	Ms. Grace Hemmings-Gapihan (Sr. Specialist on Women and Gender Questions)
	Ms. Ruth Frackmann (AE)
ILO/EAMAT Addis Ababa	Ms. S. Chuma-Mkandawire
OIT/EMANO Dakar	Mr. F. Monteiro
	Ms. Lieve Verboven (AE)
ILO/SAMAT Harare	Ms. Anouk Janssens-Bevernage
Asia and the Pacific
ROAP Bangkok	Ms. Annemarie Reerink (AE)
Beijing	Ms. Karin Klotzbh cher	(86 10) 65325091 (ph.)
Colombo	Ms. Shafinaz Hassendeen
Dhaka	Mr. Jamiluddin
	Ms. Helle Scholer (AE)
Islamabad	Ms. Samina Hasan	(92 51) 853919 (ph.) (92 51) 255950 (ph.) (92 51) 260662 (fax) (92 51) 859278 (fax)
Jakarta	Ms. Cécile de Boer	(62 21) 3100766 (ph.) (62 21) 3141308 (fax)
Kathmandu	Ms. Rosalinda Terhorst (AE)
Manila	Ms. Hilda Tidalgo	(63 2) 819-3614 (ph.) (63 2) 812 6143 (fax)
New Delhi	Ms. Anjana Chellani
Suva	Ms. Margaret Reade Rounds	(679) 313866 (ph.) (679) 300248 (fax)
Tokyo	Ms. Kumiko Omachi	(81 3) 5467 2701 (ph.) (81 3) 5467 2700 (fax)
ILO/EASMAT Bangkok	vacant
	vacant
ILO/SEAPAT Manila	Mr. Bill Salter	(63 2) 815 2354 (ph.) (63 2) 819 3614 (ph.) (63 2) 812 6143 (fax)
	Ms. Katerine Landuyt (AE)	same as above
ILO/SAAT New Delhi	Ms. Katrine Danielsen (AE)	(91 1) 460 2101/2 (ph.) (91 1) 460 2111 (fax)
Americas
Brasilia	Ms. Rosana de Queiroz
Buenos Aires	Ms. Emilia Drago
	Ms. Alejandra Pángaro
Lima (Andean office)	Ms. Amalia Cuba
Lima (Regional office)	vacant
Mexico	Ms. Brigitte Zug
Port-of-Spain	Ms. Constance Thomas
San José	Mr. Ian Chambers	(506) 253 7667 (ph.)
OIT/ETM Lima	Mr. Juan Manuel Sepúlveda
ILO/CAMAT Port-of-Spain	Ms. Constance Thomas
	Ms. Conny Weda (AE)
OIT/ETM San Jose
OIT/ETM Santiago	Ms. María Elena Valenzuela (consultant)	(562) 201 2727 307 (ph) (562) 201 2031 (fax)
Washington	Ms. Marie Enedy
Europe
Ankara	Ms. Betül Çapçi
ILO/CEET Budapest	Ms. Alena Nesporova
Arab States
ILO/ARMAT Beirut	Ms. Mary Kawar (Senior Specialist on Women and Gender Questions)

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