| Short
Summary |
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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