it is a strategy for making women s as well as men s concerns and experiences an integral dimension in the design implementation monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in all political economic and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated the ultimate goal is to achieve gender equality it adopts a prospective and preventive logic by evaluating the impact of these policies to guide the adoption of new measures governments commit themselves to ensure that a gender perspective is reflected in all policies and programmes and their implications for women assessed