The aim of this article is to examine how and to which degree the United Nations, as the main actor in post-conflict Kosovo, was able to gender mainstream the reconstruction and to enhance gender equality in line with a number of its own standards. Many of the gender mechanisms in the UNMIK were based on an approach of structural or static solutions to a problem of dynamics and policy, e.g. specialised gender focal points and gender units. However, what appeared to be a gender sensitive approach often had the consequence of marginalising women into special programs outside of standard programs.
