Evaluation Insights #3: Mainstreaming gender equality

Over the years, many commitments have been made to put gender equality at the core of development work. And yet, a recent review of experiences shows that gender equality is not yet integrated into the operations and organisational cultures of development organisations.

The Netherlands (2011), DAC Peer Review: Main Findings and Recommendations

The Netherlands continues to achieve its target of allocating 0.7% of its national income as official development assistance and should sustain this. While retaining its emphasis on the Millennium Development Goals, the Netherlands is now revising its approach to development co-operation.

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European Union (2012), DAC Peer Review: Main Findings and Recommendations

The size, geographical reach and partnership dimension of the European Union’s (EU) aid programme makes it a formidable player in global development.

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Greece (2011), DAC Peer Review: Main Findings and Recommendations

The Peer Review recommendations will help Greece build a sound and modern development co-operation system while also improving the quality and impact of its scaled back aid programme under the current national context.

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Spain (2011), DAC Peer Review: Main Findings and Recommendations

Though the economic crisis has forced Spain to cut public spending, its aid has almost doubled in the past 7 years. As the world’s 7th largest donor by volume, Spain plans to meet the international target of committing 0.7% of its gross national income to development aid. The government is committed to fighting poverty in developing countries and making aid more effective.

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Greece - DAC Peer Reviews of Development Co-operation

Greek official development assistance was USD 508 million, amounting to 0.17% of its national income, in 2010. By volume, this represents a 28% fall over the past 2 years, from USD 703 million in 2008 and USD 607 million in 2009.

Findings from the Gender Equality Module of the 2011 Paris Declaration Monitoring Survey

Twenty-four of the developing countries that undertook the 2011 Paris Declaration Monitoring Survey chose to also pilot the survey’s gender equality module. Read the full report here.

2011 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration - Country Chapters

The 78 country chapters which have been drafted as part of the 2011 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration.

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Evaluation Insights #2: Assessing the impacts of budget support

Evaluation Insights are informal working papers issued by the Network on Development Evaluation of the OECD DAC. This note synthesizes main findings on the contribution of budget support to development results, from three pilot evaluations in Mali, Tunisia and Zambia.

Investing in Security: A Global Assessment of Armed Violence Reduction Initiatives

This book contains a large-scale mapping of Armed Violence Reduction and Prevention activities, focusing on six countries - Brazil, Burundi, Colombia, Liberia, South Africa and Timor-Leste - with a view to understanding what works and what does not work.