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Short Summary
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| Title |
Accountability Upside Down: Gender Equality in
a Partnership for Poverty Eradication |
| Author |
van Reisen, M. and Ussar, M. |
| Publication
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February 2005 |
| Publisher |
Eurostep & Social Watch |
| Donor |
Eurostep & Social Watch |
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Short Summary |
How far do global anti-poverty efforts address
women? This report is the result of a research project involving nine
bilateral donors (Canada, the European Commission, France, Germany,
Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States). It
assesses the extent to which commitments to gender equality - particularly
those arising from the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium
Development Goals - have been concretely implemented within the context
of international efforts towards poverty eradication. It shows that
gender is inadequately included in country programming and argues
that the mechanisms for monitoring results or for evaluating the impact
of these programmes are deficient. In the light of these criticisms,
the report analyses the potential of the new aid modalities to enhance
gender equality. The new aid architecture is based on a shift towards
channelling development assistance through Sector Wide Approach Programmes
(SWAPs) and country-led national development programmes - particularly
Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS). Although these new aid mechanisms
provide important opportunities to strengthen gender perspectives
in development cooperation, they can lead to a further de-prioritisation
of gender equality. For example, SWAPs tend to focus on narrowly defined
investments in women and girls rather than addressing the underlying
conditions that produce gender inequality. The report concludes that
the new aid architecture has few mechanisms to ensure institutional
accountability inside donor agencies, without which commitments to
gender equality cannot be realised.
Summary written in collaboration with the Eldis Gender Guide (http://www.eldis.org/gender)
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