Mandate of the GENDERNET

The DAC Network on Gender Equality:

• Contributes to improving the quality and effectiveness of development co-operation. The GENDERNET works to ensure that practice and implementation match global and national commitments to gender equality and women’s empowerment in advancing economic, social and political development in partner countries.  It is responsive to changing contexts and development priorities
• Provides strategic support to the policy priorities of the DAC. The GENDERNET plays a catalytic role, provides professional expertise for integrating gender equality perspectives into the DAC’s work, reinforces this priority in members’ programmes, and supports partner countries’ development efforts.  It collaborates with the other DAC subsidiary bodies.
• Provides members with a unique forum for sharing experiences and disseminating good practice and innovative approaches for integrating gender perspectives and women’s empowerment into key aspects of development co-operation in support of partners´ own efforts.