69. Financial Requirements to Achieve Millennium Development Goal on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Review of Country Experiences
Jessica L. Ebbeler, 2007
Countries reaffirmed their commitment to the Millennium Development Goals at the 2005 World Summit where they committed to developing and implementing strategies aligned with all goals, including gender equality and women’s empowerment. This paper has three objectives – (1) to draw out the financial requirements for interventions aimed at achieving gender equality in ten individual country needs assessments that have been published within recent years; (2) to examine actual national budget allocations in three of the ten sample countries (Dominican Republic, Kenya, and Yemen) since MDG needs assessments have been published; and (3) to consider the role donors currently play, and have the potential to play, in supporting the implementation and scaling of gender equality interventions.
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70. Lessons from Evaluations of Women and Gender Equality in Development Cooperation
Berit Aasen
Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2006
A synthesis report based on evaluations by various bilateral and multilateral donor organizations, this evaluation looks at donor strategies for women and gender equality in development cooperation, including those from Norad, Sida, DFID, the European Commission, OECD/DAC, United Nations Development Program, International Labor Organization and the World Bank. Findings in the evaluations point to the fact that work on institutionalizing the empowerment of women and gender equality have had low priority;  there have been insufficient resources to implement policies and strategies; the focus has shifted to other areas; and there is no systematic reporting of results in this area. In addition, strategies for mainstreaming strategy have been unsuccessful while the decentralization of aid to embassies or country offices and the new aid modalities have diverted attention away from women’s and gender equality issues and posed entirely new challenges for activities relating to the empowerment of women and gender equality.
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71. Aid in Support of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Statistics based on DAC Member’s reporting on the Gender Equality Policy Marker, 2004-2005.
OECD-DAC, 2007
This report summarizes statistics of foreign aid focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment by members of the OECD Development Assistant Committee. It includes statistics for: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, European Commission, Germany, Greece, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Focuses include the gender equality policy marker coverage; the top ten recipients of aid for gender equality and women’s empowerment; and a sector breakdown of aid for gender equality and women’s empowerment.
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72. What Gender Equality Advocates Should Know About Taxation
Caren Grown, 2005
Since taxes are governments’ principal source of revenues, tax policy is at the heart of the public debate on what services government should provide and who should pay for them, including the share paid by women and men as consumers, workers, and employers. This paper explores the bias in tax systems and considers revenue collection and taxation as a strategy in work for women’s rights and poverty alleviation. It provides an overview of issues of taxation in developed and developing countries, outlines basic concepts of tax, reviews the gender dimensions of specific types of taxes, and concludes with recommendations to improve gender equity in tax policy and suggests areas for future research.
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73. Gender Equality and Aid Delivery: What has Changed in Development Cooperation Agencies since 1999?
Karen Oppenheim Mason
OECD-DAC, 2007
Set against the background of significant changes in aid delivery since the late 1990s, this report examines practices and institutional approaches to gender equality and women's empowerment in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Development Assistance Committee members' development cooperation agencies. Overall, it concludes that progress towards fulfilling the promise of the Beijing Platform for Action has been slow and uneven among the DAC members' development co-operation agencies. To match implementation to policy commitments, DAC members must recognize that gender mainstreaming is expensive; make management and staff accountable for progress in this area and offer incentives for high levels of performance; put more senior gender specialists in the field; and train staff and embassy personnel to understand and take actions to alleviate gender inequalities. (Summary adapted from Siyanda, UK -  www.siyanda.org)
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74. Other Web Resources
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