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27. Financing for Development: Aid Effectiveness and Gender-Responsive Budgets
Debbie Budlender
Commonwealth Secretariat, 2007
Presented at the Eighth Commonwealth Women’s Affairs Ministers Meeting in Uganda, this paper explores how financing gender equality for development can be made a reality and pays particular attention to changing development aid landscape, including the Monterrey consensus, the Paris Declaration, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the new aid modalities and other aspects of donor priorities and instruments. It places special emphasis on gender-responsive budgeting as a means of promoting gender equality and monitoring progress. Recommendations focused on the importance of finance ministries taking the lead in gender responsive budgets, the importance of linking women’s machineries with national development plans and bringing coherence between these plans and national gender plans, monitoring the new aid modalities for gender equality and enhancing capacities for gender responsive budgets.
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28. Implementing the Paris Declaration: Implications for the Promotion of Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
Cecilia Alemany, Nerea Craviotto, Fernanda Hopenhaym, with Ana Lidia Fernández-Layos, Cindy Clark and Sarah Rosenhek
Canadian Council for International Cooperation, AWID and WIDE, 2008
A comprehensive analysis of the Paris Declaration from a gendered perspective.
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29. Financial Requirements of Achieving Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
Caren Grown, Chandrika Bahadur, Jessie Handbury and Dianne Elson
World Bank, 2006
According to the authors of this paper, the costs of programs to promote gender equality and women's empowerment are not systematically calculated and integrated into country-level budgeting processes. Based on country-level analysis in five low-income countries - Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, Cambodia and Bangladesh - the paper estimates the costs of interventions aimed at promoting gender equality and women's empowerment. It finds that, between 2006 and 2015, the cost of direct interventions will range from seven to 14 US dollars per capita. The paper also estimates the share of all Millennium Development Goal (MDG) investments that have the potential to improve outcomes for women and men, girls and boys. The findings show that investing in all the MDGs can have important payoffs for gender equality if interventions are appropriately designed and implemented, and accompanied by gender-mainstreaming. The last part of the paper calculates gender equality investment needs as a percentage of total MDG investment needs across the five countries, and develops three scenarios for how they might be financed. (Adapted from Siyanda, UK - www.siyanda.org)
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30. Gender Equality and Aid Effectiveness, Challenges and Opportunities for International Practice: Experiences from South East Asia
Rosalind Eyben, Dipa Bagai, Sofi Ospina, and Cheryl Urashima.
DFID, UNIFEM and World Bank, 2007
Studies and discussions at a Bangkok-based workshop revealed that the Paris Declaration offers a useful framework for assessing and strengthening government-led efforts towards greater gender equality and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Drawing on case studies from Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Timor Leste and the activities and outcomes of the workshop, this report provides a synthesis of the issues emerging from the case studies, summarizes collective recommendations to international aid practice in relation to aid effectiveness and gender equality and provides a brief commentary on the broader implications of these recommendations and the overall workshop process.
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31. Gender Equality for Development Effectiveness
National Development Planning in the Commonwealth of Independent States
UNIFEM, 2008
In May 2007, UNIFEM and the Government of Kazakhstan organized a high-level consultation in Kazakhstan about gender equality, development planning and budgeting in the Commonwealth of Independent States. A report on the proceedings and outcome of the meeting, this document highlights a number of recommendations including the selection of a few strategic areas most in need of gender mainstreaming; identification of areas where gender-sensitive data are available to provide concrete evidence of problems or needs and a strong argument for change; and the identification of gender experts with specific sectoral expertise to contribute to national planning processes.
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32. Promoting Gender Equality in the Aid Effectiveness Agenda in the Asia Pacific - Engaging the Principles of the Paris Declaration
UNIFEM
Emerging from a meeting between representatives from 11 countries in the Asia-Pacific and the donor community, this discussion paper presents their examination of the guiding principles of the Paris Declaration and the extent to which these provide opportunities to advance a gender equality agenda in the context of each country. Participants also highlighted a number of strategies that UNIFEM and its partners could undertake in order to strengthen capacity at both global and country levels, including identifying and working with government agencies in charge of preparing national action plans and monitoring progress on the implementation of the Paris Declaration; and, at the global level, using existing networks and donor forums to reinforce efforts and develop a collaborative work program on integrating gender equality into the aid agenda.
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33. Notes on the Gender Perspective in Financing for Development and the Monterrey Consensus
International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW), 2007
Aimed at evaluating the Monterrey Consensus from a gender perspective, this paper critiques its recommendations as damaging to the empowerment of women and points to the absence of a gender perspective in the implementation of follow-up polices and commitments. A third and final section sets out the areas in which dialogue among stakeholders in government, international institutions, and civil society organizations is required to ensure that gender becomes a cross-cutting theme in the follow-up and formulation of policies related to financing for development.
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34. Workshop on Development Effectiveness in Practice: Applying the Paris Declaration to Advancing Gender Equality, Environmental Sustainability and Human Rights
Governments of Ireland and Denmark, 2007
Aimed at increasing mutual knowledge about how practitioners are applying the Paris Declaration to advance gender equality, environmental sustainability and human rights, this workshop brought together some 120 representatives from the Development Assistance Committee (DAC), partner countries, civil society and United Nations agencies. This outcome document presents lessons learned in implementing the Paris Declaration; outlines opportunities to enhance collaboration between different actors in the run-up to the 2008 Accra review of the Paris Declaration; and summarizes workshop proceedings. (Adapted from Siyanda, UK - www.siyanda.org)
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35. Paris Declaration Commitments and Implications for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
Development Cooperation Directorate, Development Assistance Committee Network on Gender Equality, 2006
This paper is based on an earlier one presented in Nairobi, Kenya in January 2006 to the Joint Meeting of the UN Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality and the DAC Network on Gender Equality. This version has been re-oriented and updated for consideration during meeting of the DAC Network on Gender Equality and the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness in Paris in early July 2006. This paper will focus particularly on the aid macro policy environment, especially how to ensure that a gender perspective influences the manner in which key issues on aid effectiveness are framed and understood. It does not deal in detail with aid effectiveness implementation at field level, but provides some illustrations where relevant to the overall policy context.
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36. Preliminary Recommendations of the International Consultation of Women’s Organizations and Networks on Aid Effectiveness
International Consultation of Women’s Organizations and Networks on Aid Effectiveness, 2008
On January 31st and February 1st, 2008, 50 women’s rights activists and gender experts from all regions participated in the International Consultation of Women’s Organizations and Networks and Aid Effectiveness organized by the Association of Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), Women in Development (WIDE) and UNIFEM, with the sponsorship of CIDA-Canada, and Action Aid International. This document summarized the preliminary recommendations from the Consultation. (Summary from document)
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37. AWID Primer 1: Paris Declaration on AID Effectiveness and the New Aid Modalities
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38. AWID Primer 2: Key Official Bodies Related to the Implementation of the Paris Declaration
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39. AWID Primer 3: Civil Society’s Engagement in the Aid Effectiveness Agenda
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40. AWID Primer 4: Monitoring and Evaluation of the Paris Declaration Implementation
Aid Effectiveness and Women’s Rights Series. Association for Women’s Rights in Development, 2007 The Paris Declaration is the most recent donor-partner agreement designed to increase the impact of aid. AWID has developed a set of primers intended to encourage women's rights advocates and other actors to understand the relevance of this process and to engage in it to support the call for a more comprehensive, and inclusive approach to reforming aid so that it reaches the people who need it most, including women. (Adapted from Siyanda, UK - www.siyanda.org)
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41. Promoting Gender Equality in New Aid Modalities and Partnership: Experiences from Africa.
UNIFEM, 2006
In the interest of exploring opportunities for accelerating progress on gender equality and development cooperation in the context of the new aid modalities and with special reference to Africa, UNIFEM and the government of Burundi convened a consultation that brought together government, NGOs, regional bodies, donors and UN agencies working in Zambia, Kenya, Senegal, Ghana and Burundi. This publication reports on the meeting and employs case studies to emphasize how the roll-out of new aid modalities is being experienced differently due to varied institutions, political situations and development challenges in each country.
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42. Promoting Gender Equality in New Aid Modalities and Partnerships
UNIFEM Discussion Paper, 2006
As efforts intensify to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, developed and developing countries have committed themselves to new partnerships and aid modalities. An outcome of a November 2005 international consultation in Brussels organized by the United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the European Commission, this note identifies an initial set of considerations to ensure that gender equality is central to the aid effectiveness agenda, including the strengthening of national capacities at women’s machineries and public sector institutions; compilation of sex disaggregated data and targeted dissemination of the same; and the preparation and use of gender-specific performance indicators.
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43. Gender Issues and Concerns in Financing for Development
Maria Floro, Nilufer Çagatay, John Willoughby and Korkut Ertürk
UN-INSTRAW
This background paper uses a gendered approach to examine the development financing strategies endorsed in the 2002 Monterrey Consensus document. The analysis points out that little recognition is given to the social costs and adverse consequences of the market-liberalization policies underlying much of the International Conference on Financing for Development recommended actions. Critical gender concerns and the adverse distributive consequences of these policies are neither discussed nor addressed in the Consensus document. The paper calls on governments and international institutions to recognize the crucial role of women's agency and their economic contributions in both market and non-market sectors of the economy as they explore the means of financing development and discuss related trade, fiscal, financial and investment policies. The paper concludes with policy recommendations and proposed strategies of action for governments, international bodies and civil society organizations, particularly women's organizations. (Adapted from Siyanda,UK – www.siyanda.org)
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