programmes in all spheres so that they
benefit equally;
"gender stereotypes"
means
the
beliefs
held
about
characteristics, traits and activity domains
that are deemed appropriate for women,
men, girls and boys based on their
conventional roles both domestically and
socially;
"gender sensitive"
means acknowledging and taking into
account the specific gender needs of both
men and women at all levels of planning,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation;
"health"
means a complete state of physical, mental,
spiritual and social well-being of an
individual and not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity;
"HIV'
means Human Immunodeficiency Virus;
"Human trafficking"
means the recruitment, transportation,
harbouring or receipt of persons, by means
of threat, abuse of power, position of
vulnerability, force or other forms of
coercion, abduction, fraud or deception to
achieve the consent of a person having
control over another person for the purpose
of amongst other things, sexual and
financial exploitation;
"informal sector"
means the portion of a country's economy
that lies outside of any formal regulatory
environment;
"multiple roles of women" means the several responsibilities that
women shoulder in the reproductive,
productive and community management
spheres;
"National Gender
Machineries"
means national structures with the mandate
of executing and monitoring gender and
related policies and programmes in line with
national,
regional
and
international
commitments;