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Gender Equality and
Aid Effectiveness Discussion Papers
These discussion papers draw on multi-stakeholder consultations on gender equality and aid effectiveness led by UNIFEM since November 2005. The consultations have brought together representatives from government — planning, finance, and national women’s machineries — donor agencies and civil society to explore strategies to ensure that aid effectively delivers for gender equality in the context of nationally determined development planning and programming processes.
As efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 intensify, developed and developing countries have agreed to new partnerships and aid modalities, designed to align aid to national priorities, channel diverse aid sources into national budgets, and ensure greater predictability in aid flows.
The 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness outlines five partnership commitments for greater aid effectiveness: ownership, alignment, harmonization, managing for results, and mutual accountability. In the context of discussions on financing for development and aid effectiveness, there has been growing recognition of the need to advance development effectiveness and gender equality goals in the new aid environment.
As the Paris Declaration is rolled out, however, countries face challenges in promoting gender equality under these principles, owing to weak participatory mechanisms, limited collaboration among stakeholders and insufficient capacity and resources. Without effective engagement in the political process there is a danger that the implementation of the underlying goal — development effectiveness — will be limited to administrative and financial procedures. To ensure this goal is not lost, gender equality advocates are engaging in a series of consultations in order to find ways to engage in technical and political processes at all levels. Such engagement will involve using existing gender action plans and strategies and broadening and deepening political participation and accountability.
Editions Available
- Promoting
Gender Equality in the Aid Effectiveness Agenda in Asia Pacific: Engaging
the Principles of the Paris Declaration
- Capacity
Development for Promoting Gender Equality in the Aid Effectiveness Agenda:
Lessons from Sub-Regional Consultations in Africa
- Promoting
Gender Equality in New Aid Modalities and Partnerships: Experiences from
Africa
- Promoting
Gender Equality in New Aid Modalities and Partnerships
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