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Short Summary
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| Title |
Evaluation of DFID Development Assistance: Gender
Equality and Women's Empowerment, Phase II Thematic Evaluation: Voice
and Accountability |
| Author |
Waterhouse, R. and Neville, S. |
| Publication
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February 2005 |
| Publisher |
Department for International Development, UK (DFID) |
| Donor |
Department for International Development, UK
(DFID) |
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Short Summary |
The concepts of voice and accountability form
the core values of good governance - of ensuring that citizens have
a voice in decisions made about their lives and that states and other
actors hear those voices and respond to them. This evaluation makes
a preliminary assessment of DFID's work since 1995 on issues of gender,
voice and accountability and concludes that DFID has made a significant
contribution through research and support to practical interventions.
Achievements include: contribution to the opportunities for women
to make their voices heard in government policy forums including locally
and nationally elected bodies; increased capacity for gender analysis
and gendered poverty analysis (e.g., through institutional support
to Ministries of Gender, as well as Planning and Finance); increased
capacity for gendered cost and budget analysis and formulation (e.g.,
through gender budgeting initiatives in Rwanda, India, Uganda); increased
capacity for gender-sensitive monitoring systems (both at project
level and in national processes such as poverty monitoring systems);
and establishing mechanisms to ensure that women's voices are heard
and that governments in particular may be held accountable to gender
equality goals. The report makes recommendations for how to undertake
a more systematic evaluation of this aspect of DFID's work on gender
equality and women's empowerment. |
| Summary Source |
Adapted from executive summary |
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