Aid effectiveness, gender equality and women's empowerment

Read the DAC Guiding Principles for Aid Effectiveness,
Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (pdf)

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

Issues Brief 1: Making the Linkages

The purpose of this Issues Brief 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.

Issues Brief 2: Finding the Entry Points

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 on Aid Effectiveness. The approaches, questions and specific are intended for use in consultation with partners to respect and reinforce the Paris principles of ownership, alignment and mutual accountability in particular.

Issues Brief 3: Innovative Funding for  Women's Organisations

The purpose of this Issues Brief is to:

• share research findings on levels of funding and the financial sustainability of women’s organisations in the context of changing approaches to delivering aid,
• provide ideas for donors on how to strengthen the work and roles of women’s organisations in making development effective and sustainable,
• illustrate innovative donor practices and approaches, and
• identify some future challenges for donors, partners and civil society organisations.

Issues Brief 4: Managing for Gender Equality Results in Donor Agencies

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

Issues Brief 5: Managing for Gender Equality Results in Partner Countries

This document presents ideas and approaches for donors and 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”.