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On The Road To The High Level Forum on Aid
Effectiveness in Busan: What Is At Stake For Gender Equality And Women’s
Rights?
Direct Link to Full 20-Page 2011 Report: IDeA_Primer10.pdf
AWID's Development Cooperation and Women's
Rights series Primer 10, with contributions from WIDE network, outlines
official and civil society preparations in the lead up to the HLF-4 in Busan,
South Korea, December 2011. It highlights what is at stake for gender equality
and women’s rights at this Fora and sets out plans for gender advocates and CSO
mobilizations.
CSOs, including women’s rights organizations,
have criticized the aid effectiveness process of the Paris Declaration and
Accra Agenda for Action for being a highly technical agenda, concentrated on
reforming aid delivery and management rather than on achieving sustainable and
just development. Engaging with women’s rights groups and networks, gender
equality advocates from official spaces, donors and international
organizations, is a necessary step to promote an inclusive debate on gender
equality, women’s rights, development cooperation, and to influence the
preparations for the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4).
Therefore, ahead of HLF-4, and given what is at stake in Busan, the voices of
women’s rights and gender equality advocates must be heard and translated into
action.