This discussion paper was prepared following UNIFEM's sub-regional Consultations on gender equality and aid effectiveness held in various countries in Africa in 2006-2007 (Burundi in July 2006, Djibouti in November 2006, Ghana in November 2006 and Zambia in July 2007). The consultations brought together representatives from governments, donor partners and civil society to share experiences and explore strategies for advancing gender equality goals in the new aid environment. Participants...

Recent reforms of aid delivery, most notably the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005), have provided new opportunities and mechanisms to translate donor and government commitments into improved practice results and impacts. Achieving internationally agreed development goals will however not be possible without progress on gender equality and women's empowerment. A the same time, implementing the Paris Declaration's overarching partnerships commitment is a powerful way of accelerating...

This background paper was prepared by ECLAC and presented at the Regional Consultations on the Economic and Social Council Annual Ministerial Review on Key Challenges of Financing Poverty and Hunger Eradication in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Brazil, 17-18 May 2007. This document analyses the challenges for development finance posed by current ODA trends. It also presents and examines the new financial instruments being proposed. The focus is on the Latin American and Caribbean...

This briefing paper highlights main concerns and opportunities that increased general budget support present for gender equity work in EU partner countries. It discusses what EU gender equity commitments and attempts to operationalize them have to say about how gender responsive budgeting could be used as a tool to engender general budget support. The concluding sections summarize lessons learnt on engendering general budget support through GRB, and provide recommendations for action that...

This report maps the degree to which European Union donors from Austria, Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the UK comply with the commitments they made in the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action, and the impact this has on gender equality and women's human rights. While each of the five Paris Declaration principles offers concrete opportunities to advance the gender profile, the report focuses on democratic ownership and mutual accountability as the most political and with the biggest...

Background paper prepared for the Commonwealth Secretariat in May 2007 by Debbie Budlender, Community Agency for Social Enquiry, Cape Town, South Africa. This paper attempts to make the case for financing gender equality for development, and to explore how this can be done. Because the issues related to financing gender equality for development are so numerous, the paper obviously cannot discuss all in equal detail. It thus pays particular attention to the ways in which the context of such...

This technical paper analyses investments by OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donors in six policy areas that are priorities for the...

The series of Gender Briefing Notes is designed to help EC officials working in development cooperation to easily identify and address gender equality issues in specific sectors and thematic areas. This paper focuses on gender budgeting and its usefulness in the context of new aid instruments. It complements the "Mainstreaming Gender Equality in EC Development Cooperation" toolkit. It highlights how gender budgeting may be used by both partner countries and donors to make programme-based...

The paper examins the relevance of GRB to ensure that gender equality remains at the center of the Aid Effectiveness agenda.

This guide prepared by the Development Assistance Committee, OECD in June 2002 is intended for policy and operational staff in government and development organisations who are interested in sector wide approaches (SWAPs). It is based on case studies examining the experience of sector wide programs in Education (Ghana, India and Uganda; in Health (Bangladesh and Ghana), in Agriculture (Kenya, Zambia and Mozambique).