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Aid modalities and the promotion of gender equality: aide-memoire
Integrating gender equality into changing aid modalties
Authors:
; Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE); OECD-DAC Network on Gender Equality
Publisher:
The Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality , 2005
In January 2006, the United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) and the Network on Gender Equality of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) held a joint meeting on the implications of the new aid modalities for the achievement of gender equality. This aide-memoire, written in preparation of the meeting, argues that new aid modalities may have limited or adverse effects on developing countries if they do not take into account gender perspectives and the rights and interests of women.
A number of agencies are already tackling the issue of how to integrate gender equality into the various elements of changing aid modalities. Yet the Sector Wide Approach Programmes (SWAPs) and Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS) through which development assistance is now increasingly channelled have often been gender blind, without the necessary budgetary allocations directed towards addressing gender inequalities.
This paper argues that if progress towards the achievement of gender equality is to be maintained and accelerated it is critical that these new mechanisms address gender mainstreaming as a key strategy and ensure that the voices of women in both donor and partner countries are heard.
Summary written in collaboration with BRIDGE and Siyanda
