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| Date Added to Site: 28th March 2006 | ||
| Short Summary | ||
| Title | Promoting Gender Equality in New Aid Modalities and Partnerships | |
| Author | UNIFEM | |
| Publication Date | March 2006 | |
| Publisher | UNIFEM | |
| Donor | UNIFEM | |
| Short Summary | As efforts intensify to meet the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) by 2015, developed and developing countries have committed
themselves to new partnerships and aid modalities. This new aid architecture
is designed to align aid to nationally-determined development priorities,
to pool diverse aid sources into direct support to the national budget
or to particular sectors, and to ensure greater stability and predictability
in aid flows. Gender equality is central to achieving the MDGs and
other development goals, making it important to ensure that aid structures
target and monitor progress towards gender equality goals. Ultimately,
gender equality outcomes will be important signs of the effectiveness
of the new approach to aid delivery and partnership. Predictable aid
flows - one of the anticipated benefits of the new aid architecture
- may work to advance gender equality by encouraging investment in
activities that promote gender equality in the long term. However,
women will only benefit from the new aid architecture if gender equality
is recognised as a key component of poverty reduction and national
development, and if women are fully represented in decision-making.
To support gender equality, the new aid architecture should include:
adequate financing for programmes that respond to women's needs; accountability
systems for governments and donors to track and enhance their contributions
to gender equality; and gender-sensitive progress assessments, performance
monitoring and indicators for aid effectiveness. This paper comes
out of a November 2005 international consultation in Brussels organised
by the United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the European Commission. A full Conference report is available by accessing http://www.unifem.org/attachments/events/UNIFEM-EC_Conference_Report.pdf. A summarised version of the conference report is also available in Spanish from http://www.mujereshoy.com/secciones/3450.shtml Summary written in collaboration with the Eldis Gender Guide (http://www.eldis.org/gender) |
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