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What are the implications of the new aid modalities
for gender equality and the empowerment of women? What needs to be
done to keep commitments to gender equality on track? This was the
subject of the January 2006 joint biennial workshop between the United
Nations Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE)
and the Network on Gender Equality of the Development Assistance Committee
(DAC) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD). The workshop focused on the partnership commitments of the
Paris Declaration, adopted in 2005, and sought to examine how they
could be used to advance the incorporation of a gender perspective
into the changing aid agenda. The Paris Declaration identified a new
aid framework based on five commitments - ownership, alignment, harmonization,
managing for results, and mutual accountability. The Declaration was
designed to ensure that the increased flow of aid to partner countries
actually benefited those it is meant to serve. This summary report
of the IANWGE/DAC workshop outlines the conclusions which emerged
from the workshop. The workshop underscored the importance of building
local ownership based on commitments to gender equality, of integrating
gender equality goals into harmonization and accountability mechanisms,
of building on the existing strength of gender equality advocates
at the national level, and of integrating gender equality goals into
national governance and legal reforms. |
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