Ethiopia has prioritized the advancement of gender equality through the development and implementation of the first National Policy on Women in 1993 followed by the promulgation of Constitution in 1995 that calls for equal rights of women, including Affirmative Action to bridge existing gaps. Ethiopia has revised gender discriminatory legal provisions in the Family Law and Penal Codes, showing a firm political commitment to gender equality and the advancement of women.

The main research question of this study To what extent do post-conflict reconstruction initiatives allocate resources to promote gender equality, address women's needs and involve women in decision-making around strategies and related resource allocations? In the Post-Conflict Needs Assessments examined in this paper, less than 5 percent of activities and only 3 percent of budget lines mentioned women's needs. Low and diminishing levels of gender-responsiveness were also evident in PRSPs....

The publication decribes two main features: 1. Development in the Kyrgyz Republic, an institutional mechanism to promote gender equality, responsible for the formulation of national programs and strategies for gender equality and women's empowerment; 2. The analysis of the flow of funding policies of gender equality and empowerment of women authority of local resources, official development assistance contributions to the development of national level in the Kyrgyz Republic.

This paper provides a gender analysis of the new aid agenda as outlined in the Paris Declaration. Highlighting key opportunities and concerns that are presented in the new aid context towards the achievement of gender equality, the article also outlines the usefulness of some key tools such as gender budget analysis, gender analysis, gender statistics and indicators-- in order to address the gaps that currently exist within the monitoring frameworks of the new aid agenda. These tools can be used...

This report reflects country-level experiences shared at the Burundi regional consultation on Aid Effectiveness and Gender Equality in Africa in July 2006 consultation on the gender equality opportunities and challenges arising from aid reform processes. Cases from Zambia, Kenya, Senegal, Ghana and Burundi are explored in the report.

Support for gender responsive policies, programming and budgets has been an important priority area of UN Women’s Sub-Regional Office for Central and South Eastern Europe. In 2011, the Sub-regional Office launched a three-year project on Promoting Gender Responsive Policies in South East Europe (PGRP-SEE) financed by the Austrian Development Agency. The project covered Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and FYR Macedonia. The ultimate goal of the project was that policies, programs and...

This document corresponds to a fifth product of the international consultancy for the development of a Gender Strategy Plan 2014-2017. Government of the Republic of Honduras; formulated a product as follows: "Final Document on the inclusion of proposed in the Sectoral Planning as part of the mandate of the Presidential Strategic Planning, Budget and Public Investment".

This paper explains what GRB is, what GRB work has help achieved and how it can further contribute to achieving gender equity and equality. The paper also presents some of the challenges of doing GRB work and concludes with a set of recommendations to institutionalize a gender equality perspective in public finance.

Since 2004, 13 research projects supported in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America by the Women's Rights and Citizenship program of Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) have been exploring exactly how decentralization affects women's access to services, resources, and local power. The findings show that these reforms do not automatically benefit women, and can even put them at a disadvantage.

The publication presents a set of instruments for the analysis of public revenues and expenditures from a gender perspective. The authors analyzed...