The main program beneficiaries of the strategic plan are women. To ensure that the Foundation effectively addresses gender issues affecting women, the Foundation will mainstream gender throughout the all the components of the strategic plan.

Mainstreaming gender involves a process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels. It is a strategy for making women’s as well as men’s concerns and experiences an integral dimension of 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.