GRAPS stands for Gender Reform Action Plan. There are five GRAPS one for each province and one for the National/Federal level.

Pakistan is a signatory to various international commitments including Convention on Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declaration. The government has also prepared a National Plan of Action (NPA) and a National Policy for Development and Empowerment of Women. Given these national and international commitments the gender related gaps have not decreased substantially. The GRAPS seek to address some of these gaps through reforms in four major areas:

• Political reforms
• Administrative/institutional reforms
• Reforms in public sector employment
• Policy and fiscal reforms.

Pre induction measures:

• Establishment of public career development and information service.
• Affirmative advertising for posts
• Establishment, improvement of basic office facilities for comfortable work environment for women.
  

Induction process:

• Appointment of 2 women Federal secretaries, 2 on NCSW and 1 on selection committees.
• Recruiting and promotion of women against 50% vacancies in BPS 17 and 18, 9-11 and 4-6.
• Appointment of women ADCO, DCO and EDOs on 20% seats.

Post induction measures:

• Enforcement of code of ethics regarding sexual harassment at workplace.

Policy formulation and implementation:
Rewrite the National Policy for Development and Empowerment of Women NPDEW Incorporate the gender recommendations in ‘mainstreaming gender in PRSP'
Gender review and amendment of existing policy documents as well as those pertaining to federal legislation and concurrent lists, policy formulation guidelines of P&D
Revision and redesigning of PC1-PC5 to encompass gender planning.

Budgeting & public expenditure mechanisms:

Initiating the following for education and health sectors:

• Gender aware policy analysis
• Gender disaggregated beneficiary analysis
• Gender disaggregated time use analysis
• Gender disaggregated public expenditure incidence analysis
• Gender disaggregated revenue incidence analysis
• Gender aware medium term economic framework

•  MoWD to submit an evaluation report on budgetary reform in May 2004 and thereafter every year in the month of March to NCSW and Finance Division
•  Modification of Budget Call letters for the Budget of 2004-5 to include the instruction that all expenditure estimates of education and health be submitted with clear indication of their intended targeting and impact of women and men
•  Approval of creation of a separate demand under budget demands with allocation of a demand code for ‘women development' in the federal and provincial budgets; creation of new codes in each sector for women specific facilities and functions
•  Obligatory direction to all departments to separately indicate their women specific capital expenditures
•  Creation of separate section within PSDP and ADPs for all sectors to indicate women specific investments in the capital budget
•  From the ABS for 2004-05 a clear set of policy statements, addressing women's specific issues, to accompany the budget documents
•  A pre-budget seminar with women rights groups and NGOs to present government's commitments to gender issues and indicate resource allocations
•  Presentation of results of analytic studies in the seminars inviting civil society organizations and political parties to them
•  Where budget formats are prepared for local governments, they will indicate allocations for women in each sector separately
•  The budget process for 2004-05, through the Budget Call Letter in the federal government and provinces, to include specific timeframe and dates for policy discussions with NGOs and women members of assemblies
•  FBS to design and implement surveys to bring out data on violence against women, gender disaggregate socio-economic indicators
•  Direction from Finance Division to CGA and AGs to generate sectoral reports, starting with education and health, to provide gender specific expenditures reports from the appropriation accounts of 2004-05 for gender specific facilities
•  Direction from Finance Division to CGA to review the Chart of Classification and institute separate codes for generating gender disaggregated data where required for gender specific service delivery units

These will include:

• Political Participation
• Institutional Structures
• Women's Employment in the Public Sector
• Policy & Fiscal Reforms

These will include:

• Legislative Support Actions
• Poverty Support Actions
• Projects & Programs