New Database Additions  Short Summary Title DAC Guiding Principles for Aid Effectiveness, Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, Author Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Publication Date December 2008 Publisher Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Summary Source Summary adapted from source Summary This document was produced by the DAC Network on Gender Equality and is intended to complement the existing DAC guidelines on gender equality. It takes the five principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness as entry points to make recommendations to donors and partner country governments in meeting their commitments to achieving gender equality and women's empowerment - and the overall goal of poverty reduction. The five Paris Declaration principles are: Ownership, Alignment, Harmonisation, Managing for Results, and Mutual Accountability. The document recommends, for example, that: • Donors should support partner government's efforts to base their Poverty Reduction Strategies on existing gender equality and women's empowerment commitments such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) • Donors should ensure there is greater alignment around international and regional gender-focused policies and legislation, such as CEDAW and the Beijing Platform for Action, for example by drawing on these existing commitments when discussing policy in dialogue with partner governments • Donors should find a more harmonised way of working together to fund and support gender equality interventions - for example by sharing experience and pooling resources • Donors should develop clear frameworks for assessing performance on achieving gender equality, grounded in gender-sensitive indicators and sex-disaggregated data • Donors should develop or improve accountability mechanisms, indicators, data collection and other processes to hold themselves and partner governments to account for their commitments to reduce gender gaps and empower women. Complete Document View PDF (Portable Document Format)