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WIDE - EU DONORS - AID EFFECTIVENESS
- GENDER EQUALITY & RIGHTS
Women
In Development Europe (WIDE) is a European feminist network of women´s
organisations, development NGOs, gender specialists and women´s rights
activists. WIDE monitors and influences international economic and development
policy and practice from a feminist perspective.
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Document:
Commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment within development
policies of the EU Members States has became more explicit, yet budgets are
still gender blind and insufficient. This policy brief summarises the most important findings of the mapping
study based on women’s organisations’ voices carried out by WIDE on EU donors’
compliance with their ownership and mutual accountability commitments made in
the Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action. WIDE has focused on the EU’s
intentions and actions as donors based on the example of five Member States:
Austria, Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the UK. The brief highlights how gender
equality and women’s rights have been addressed in the changing aid modalities
context; it points out to the gaps, and suggests ways for improvement.