The paper provides a comprehensive overview and guide to complex issue of linkages between aid and gender equality. Moreover, the position paper addresses the intricate linkages and identifies existing challenges for future action in development practice and research with a view to increasing aid efficiency.

The EC/UN Partnership has reviewed the extent to which commitments to women's security and peacebuilding needs have been financed by Official Development Assistance (ODA) in four different post-conflict situations: the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nepal, Bougainville (Papua New Guinea), and Aceh (Indonesia). A 2008 study by UNIFEM found that government and donor efforts to integrate gender priorities in peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction processes in Nepal were limited, and that...

The report "Gender Equality, the new aid environment and CSOs" was researched and written by the Gender & Development Network (GADN) because of a growing concern about the fast changing aid structures, such as direct budget support, pooled funding schemes for supporting civil society and other forms of donor alignment and their possible implications for work on gender equality and women?s rights issues, in the Global North and South. The report highlights some of the key questions emerging for...

The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (PD) commits donors and partner countries to reform aid management and delivery in order to strengthen its development outcomes. Through the Declaration, development partners commit to implementing common arrangements for planning, funding, disbursing, monitoring, evaluating and reporting on donor activities and aid flows at country level. To respond to these requirements, donors have collectively put in place a number of mechanisms to better coordinate...

This report presents the findings of a country review carried out in Cameroon by NTAKEU Bruno and Fon Mercy under the programme "Integrating gender responsive budgeting into the aid effectiveness agenda" launched by UNIFEM and the European Commission (EC) in 2008. The first part of the report looks at the macroeconomic context and the context of aid management in Cameroon. The second part examines the country's experience in gender-responsive budgeting. The last part focuses on an analysis of...

This report presents the findings of a country review carried out in Tanzania by Liisa Kytoa  under the programme "ntegrating gender responsive budgeting into the aid effectiveness agenda" launched by UNIFEM and the European Commission (EC) in 2008. The first sections provide a brief background to the country, covering the main development indicators, volumes, sources and specific structures related to development aid in Tanzania. The report then focuses on the development management practices...

This research was carried out by Ms Nalini Burn, GRB Expert under the programme "Integrating gender responsive budgeting into the aid effectiveness agenda" launched by UNIFEM and the European Commission (EC) in 2008. The first part of this case study briefly outlines the development management context: examining official development assistance to Morocco, focusing on two donors, the European Union (EU) and Spain; describing the planning and budgetary system and process as well as the extent and...

This report presents the findings of a country review carried out in Uganda by Nite Tanzarn under the programme"Integrating gender responsive budgeting into the aid effectiveness agenda" launched by UNIFEM and the European Commission (EC) in 2008. The report describes how gender responsive budgeting (GRB) work has engaged with the key aid effectiveness instruments in Uganda over the past five years. The instruments include the poverty reduction strategy paper/poverty eradication action plan...

This report synthesises findings from a two year research and advocacy programme "Just Budgets" carried out in partnership with four leading African civil society organisations. The aim of the programme was to explore how gender responsive budgeting (GRB) could be applied to new aid modalities (budget and sector support) in order to strengthen gender equality outcomes in development cooperation. The research was a response to aid financing reforms articulated in the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid...

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.