Past Events - DAC Network on Gender Equality

Seventh Meeting of the DAC Network on Gender Equality (10-12 June 2009)

Two workshops were held during the 7th meeting of the GENDERNET. A workshop on the impacts of the financial and food crises on women in developing countries explored what we know about the current and past crises and how donors are responding rapidly to “real time” situations in partner countries. Speakers emphasised the need for effective policy responses to build on women’s role as economic actors who are essential to the sustainable success of recovery efforts.
 
A second workshop on “country systems” challenged members to more effectively use public financial management reform to deliver improved development results for both women and men. Speakers from Ghana, the Philippines, Morocco and Tanzania shared their experiences of implementing gender responsive budgeting, expenditure and performance monitoring initiatives.

See the meeting web site: www.oecd.org/dac/gender/7thmeeting

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Sixth Meeting of the DAC Network on Gender Equality and task team meeting (Paris, 7-9 July 2008)

The 6th meeting of the GENDERNET focussed on managing for development results by featuring as its centerpiece a 1.5 day workshop. The workshop looked at:

• Good practice in collaborating with partners to achieve results on the ground in partner countries
• How to achieve and measure results within our agencies (both at headquarters and on the ground)
• Capacity development to support managing for results
• Innovations in achieving results (this will include some funding initiatives)
• Information sharing on (and influencing) the Accra HLF-3 Roundtable

See the meeting web site: www.oecd.org/dac/gender/6thmeeting

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Workshop on Strengthening the Development Results and Impacts of the Paris Declaration through Work on Gender Equality, Social Exclusion and Human Rights (London, 12-13 March 2008)

See workshop web site: www.oecd.org/dac/effectiveness/resultsandimpacts

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Joint workshop with IANWGE – Enhancing partnerships between multilateral and bilateral agencies to support partner country efforts to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment (Paris, 28-29 January 2008)

The OECD DAC Network on Gender Equality and the United Nations’ Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality hold a workshop every two years to exchange ideas and share information on issues of mutual relevance and interest. The two groups represent the gender focal points and advisors of the United Nations system, bilateral agencies and the development banks.

Focus of the 2008 workshop:

• The role of multilateral agencies in delivering on commitments to gender equality and women’s empowerment
• How bilateral agencies can best support the efforts of  multilateral agencies
• Innovative practices in partnerships between bilateral and multilateral agencies
• Opportunities to enhance and scale up our mutual work to support partner country efforts, and
• Improved tracking of development assistance focussed on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
  

See the workshop web site: www.oecd.org/dac/gender/ianwgeworkshop

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Fifth Meeting of the DAC Network on Gender Equality (Paris, 27-29 June 2007)

The meeting included a Workshop on scaling up for women’s empowerment and rights from a donor perspective - why, how and where do we invest in gender equality and women’s empowerment? with presentations by representatives from non-governmental organisations and private foundations.

The two GENDERNET task teams – on aid effectiveness and on DAC "new directions" on gender equality and women’s empowerment – reported on their ongoing work.

See the meeting web site: www.oecd.org/dac/gender/5thmeeting

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Workshop on Development Effectiveness in Practice – Applying the Paris Declaration to Advancing Gender Equality, Environmental Sustainability and Human Rights (Dublin, 26-27 April 2007)

This workshop was organised by the DAC Networks on Environment and Development, Governance, and Gender Equality and the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness, with the support of the Irish and Danish Governments. The purpose  was to increase mutual knowledge and understanding of how practitioners are applying the Paris Declaration’s overarching principles to advance gender equality, environmental sustainability and human rights. The long-term goal is to demonstrate how attention to these issues enhances development effectiveness.

See the workshop web site: www.oecd.org/dac/effectiveness/inpractice