Aid effectiveness, gender equality and women's empowerment

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The DAC Network on Gender Equality is working on a range of initiatives relating to the implementation of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005) and the Accra Agenda for Action (2008):

 

Monitoring aid effectiveness and gender equality

An optional module was developed to provide a gender equality dimension to the progress being tracked by the 2011 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration. Twenty-four of the developing countries that undertook the Paris Declaration Survey chose to also pilot the survey’s gender equality module.

 

Read the report "Findings from the Gender Equality Module of the 2011 Paris Declaration Monitoring Survey" here (pdf, 1,6 MB)) (November 2011)

 

Read the overview of the report here.

 

Gender equality at the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (Busan, Korea, 29 November-1 December 2011)

The “Busan partnership for effective development co-operation” (paragraph 20) recognises that gender equality and women’s empowerment are critical to achieving development results.

 

In Busan, stakeholders also supported the Busan Joint Action Plan for Gender Equality and Development.

 

DAC Guiding Principles for Aid Effectiveness, Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (2008)

 

Read (pdf, 1.47 MB)

 

Issues Briefs

A series of Issues Briefs complement and expand on the Guiding Principles by providing concrete examples and case studies:

1. Making the Linkages (2008)

(pdf, 555.5 kB)

The purpose of issues brief 1 is to assist programme managers and thematic advisors in donor agencies to make linkages between the overarching commitments of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and work on gender equality and women’s empowerment. It examines each of the five principles of the Paris Declaration and how these relate to work on gender equality and women’s empowerment.

2. Finding the Entry Points (2008)

(pdf, 2.01 MB)

This document intends to assist programme managers and thematic advisors in donor agencies to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment within the framework of the Paris Declaration. The approaches, questions and specific are intended for use in consultation with partners.

 

3. Innovative Funding for  Women's Organisations (2008)

(pdf, 1.21 MB)

 The purpose of issues brief 3 is to:
  • share research findings on levels of funding and the financial sustainability of women’s organisations
  • provide ideas for donors on how to strengthen the work and roles of women’s organisations in making development effective
  • illustrate innovative donor practices and approaches
  • identify some future challenges for donors, partners and civil society

4. Managing for Gender
Equality Results
in Donor Agencies
 (2009)   

(pdf, 801.9 kB)

This brief presents strategies and good examples to assist donors to manage for gender equality results in their agencies.

5. Managing for Gender
Equality Results
in Partner Countries
 (2009)      

(pdf, 691.7 kB)

This document introduces ideas and approaches for development partners to jointly manage for gender equality results in partner countries. It also discusses what is meant by “gender equality and women’s empowerment results”.

6. Integrating gender equality dimensions
into public financial management
reforms
 (2010)

(pdf, 779 kB)

Issues brief 6 is on the integration of a gender equality perspective into public financial management (PFM) in partner countries. It suggests ways of using the techniques of gender-responsive budgeting (GRB).

 

Case studies

A number of case studies have been prepared by members and partners on aid effectiveness, gender equality, rights and inclusion:

 

Leaflet on Gender, rights and inclusion (pdf, 1MB)

 

Nepal: addressing social exclusion

Nepal: support to the Safe Motherhood Programme

Sierra Leone: election support
Uganda: local governance
Bolivia: education
Vietnam: programme for ethnic minority and mountainous areas
Tanzania: joint assistance strategy
Zimbabwe: gender scoping study
Zimbabwe: health
Kenya: division of labour and financing gender equality
Peru: rights-based approach to health
Mozambique: health and HIV/AIDS

 

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