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I. Quick Guide: New Aid Modalities
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What are the implications of the recent shift in aid modalities for achieving gender equality? What needs to be done to ensure that changing aid structures accelerate progress towards gender equality goals?

- Paris Declaration Commitments and Implications for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, Gaynor, C., June 2006
This document analyses the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness from a gender perspective.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/gaynor_parisdec.htm

- Promoting Gender Equality in New Aid Modalities and Partnerships, UNIFEM, March 2006
This paper identifies an initial set of considerations to ensure that gender equality is central to the aid effectiveness agenda.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/unifem_nam.htm

- Aid Instruments, Social Exclusion and Gender: Background Paper for DFID’s Internal Guidance on Aid Instruments, Payne, L. and Neville, S., March 2006
This report, commissioned by DFID, provides analysis of the use of aid instruments in supporting progress on social exclusion and gender.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/payne_neville_aidinstruments.htm

- Where is the Money for Women’s Rights? Assessing the Role of Donors in the Promotion of Women’s Rights and the Support of Women’s Rights Organizations, Clark, C., et al., February 2006
This study shows the recent trends in the financing of women's rights work and organisations.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/clark_money_womenrights.htm

- Summary Report of the Joint Meeting of the Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) and the OECD-DAC Network on Gender Equality: Aid Modalities and the Promotion of Gender Equality, IANWGE/OECD-DAC, January 2006
This summary report of the IANWGE/DAC workshop discusses the implications of the new aid modalities for gender equality and the empowerment of women.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/ianwge_oecd_dac.htm

- Gender Mainstreaming in Development Cooperation Ireland Country Strategy Papers (CSP), Waterhouse, R. and Sever, C., September 2005
This report discusses the implications for gender mainstreaming in the context of new aid modalities – with particular reference to the drawing up of Country Strategy documents.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/waterhouse_sever_gendermainstreaming.htm

- Accountability Upside Down: Gender Equality in a Partnership for Poverty Eradication, van Reisen, M. and Ussar, M., February 2005
This report tracks how women are involved in development assistance. In particular, it considers the potential of the new aid modalities to enhance gender equality.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/vanreisen_accountability.htm

You can find additional resources on New Aid Modalities through the Simple Search function: http://www.siyanda.org/search/

Men and Masculinities will be the next Quick Guide theme. Users are invited to suggest resources on this topic for possible inclusion in the database: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/ Please also visit the archive section to view past Quick Guide themes: http://www.siyanda.org/quick_guide.htm

II. Country Focus: Ethiopia
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- African News Agency (AFROL) Gender Profile: Ethiopia, AFROL, January 2005
This African News Agency gender profile lists a range of social data on Ethiopia, including life expectancy, sex ratio and access to medical services. It also contains links to relevant news articles and background presentations on Ethiopia.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/afrol_ethiopia_genderprofile.htm

- The Invincible Invisibles: Ethiopian Women in Conflict and Peacemaking, Mulugeta Tefera, E., January 2005
This review highlights women's roles in conflict, both historically and more recently in Ethiopia.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/mulugeta_ethiopia_invisible.htm

- A Report on Gender at the Heart of Economic Policy Process: A Focus on the Budget, Evers, B. and Wondimu A., April 2004
The British Council held a workshop with government employees in Addis Ababa in 2004 to discuss the use of gender budgeting in order to generate better data and ensure poverty reduction strategies were gendered.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/evers_genderpolicy.htm

- Millennium Development Goals Report: Challenges and Prospects for Ethiopia, The Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MOFED) and the United Nations Country Team, March 2004
Several studies and available data show that women in Ethiopia are disadvantaged due to their sex. Millennium Development Goal (MDG) indicators on gender equality must reflect this context.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/mofed_mdg_ethiopia.htm

- Doing Business in Addis Ababa: Case Studies of Women Entrepreneurs with Disabilities in Ethiopia, International Labour Organisation (ILO), August 2003
This paper is a collection of case studies of disabled women who are engaged in small enterprise in Addis Ababa and the Tigray Region of Ethiopia.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/ilo_addisababa_business.htm

Access more gender resources on Ethiopia: http://www.siyanda.org/search/qlinx-countryfocus.cfm?code=Ethiopia, and network with experts and practitioners: http://www.siyanda.org/exps/results.cfm?CouOfExp=%20Ethiopia

III. Resources from Experts and Consultants Database: gender mainstreaming in international cooperation for development
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The Experts and Consultants Database contains names, contact details and areas of expertise of people working on gender specific issues worldwide, and includes some of their publications. On gender mainstreaming in international cooperation for development, the following publications can be found:

- Panta Rhei: Everything will Change, Nothing Stays Forever (Towards a New Institutional Framework on Empowerment and Gender Mainstreaming in the Netherlands Development Cooperation and Foreign Affairs), van der Veen, F., 2005
- Empowerment and Gender Mainstreaming: a Sustainable Relationship in Dutch Developement Cooperation (Fact Sheet in 5 Languages; Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs), van der Veen, F., 2005
- Inclusive Aid: Power and Relationships in International Development, Groves L and Hinton R eds., 2004
- Strategic Gender Mainstreaming in International Cooperation Agencies. The Experience of Oxfam GB in South America (in Spanish), Dawson, E., 2004
- Review of Gender Integration in Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC): Overview, Gibb, H., 2002
- Qualitative and Quantitative Indicators for the Monitoring and Evaluation of the ILO Gender Mainstreaming Strategy, Bastia, T., 2000

For further details on these publications, copy and paste or type the author's last name into either the Name or Search Words field on the Experts and Consultants search page: http://www.siyanda.org/exps/

- View the latest consultants:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/latest.cfm
- Join the list:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/addexp.cfm
- Search the database:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/
- Edit your existing profile:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/editlogin.cfm (you need a user name and password)

The Siyanda Gender Experts and Consultants Database, with over 900 profiles, can be used as a networking tool for connecting practitioners, researchers, activists, students and experts with like-minded colleagues, persons working on similar themes, or in the same geographical location. It is also an excellent resource for those seeking experts for gender-focussed consultancies.

IV. Latest additions:
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Please find below a selection of materials recently added to the Siyanda database:

- Gender Equality Architecture and UN Reforms, Rao, A., July 2006
- Food Security in Practice: Using Gender Research in Development, Quisumbing, A.R. and McClafferty, B., June 2006
- Empowering Young Women to Lead Change, World YWCA, June 2006
- Politics of the Possible – Gender Mainstreaming and Organisational Change: Experiences from the Field, Mukhopadhyay, M., Steehouwer, G. and Wong, F., April 2006
- The Story Behind the Numbers: Women and Employment in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Commonwealth of Independent States , Varbanova, A., Fodor, E. et al., March 2006
- Trade in the Americas: Women Central to the Debate, Spieldoch, A. et al., January 2006

You can locate more Latest Additions here: http://www.siyanda.org/newadditions.htm, or through the Simple Search function: http://www.siyanda.org/search/ (copy and paste the title without characters such as ":" ";" and "-" or copy and paste the author's last name into the Search box).

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