Mapping Aid Effectiveness and Gender Equality: Global Findings and Key Messages
Midway through the timeline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra, Ghana, in September 2008 represents the recognition that the measure of aid effectiveness will ultimately be its impact on development results, including the MDGs.
The hearings and consultations leading up to this forum have highlighted another important recognition: that gender equality and women’s empowerment are central to reducing poverty and achieving sustainable development. Together, these recognitions will go beyond the Accra meeting to the High Level Event on the MDGs in New York on 25 September and the critical Second Global Conference on Financing for Development,to be held in Doha, Qatar, in November-December 2008.
We believe that making the links between gender equality and development effectiveness is therefore also a measure of aid effectiveness. Indeed it is out of this shared belief that the partnership between the European Union, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the International Training Centre/International Labour Organization (ITC/ILO) was formed. In joining together to highlight the role of aid effectiveness in reducing poverty and inequality, we have promoted the use of the Paris Declaration principles to build alliances and open spaces for policy dialogue among governments, donor partners and civil society organizations, including gender-equality advocates in order to enhance inclusive development and increase the role of aid in this process...
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The hearings and consultations leading up to this forum have highlighted another important recognition: that gender equality and women’s empowerment are central to reducing poverty and achieving sustainable development. Together, these recognitions will go beyond the Accra meeting to the High Level Event on the MDGs in New York on 25 September and the critical Second Global Conference on Financing for Development,to be held in Doha, Qatar, in November-December 2008.
We believe that making the links between gender equality and development effectiveness is therefore also a measure of aid effectiveness. Indeed it is out of this shared belief that the partnership between the European Union, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the International Training Centre/International Labour Organization (ITC/ILO) was formed. In joining together to highlight the role of aid effectiveness in reducing poverty and inequality, we have promoted the use of the Paris Declaration principles to build alliances and open spaces for policy dialogue among governments, donor partners and civil society organizations, including gender-equality advocates in order to enhance inclusive development and increase the role of aid in this process...
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