Aid for Gender Equality and Development: Lessons and Challenges

Abstract

This UNU-WIDER special issue of the Journal of International Development comprises a set of papers on the theme of aid and gender equality. While the topic of aid effectiveness has been examined in this journal and elsewhere, the focus on how well development assistance to countries and non-governmental organizations promotes gender equality and empowers women is relatively new. This special issue is the first to marshal quantitative evidence and case studies on several themes: (1) macroanalyses of aid effectiveness and gender equality; (2) the determinants of aid for gender equality and women's empowerment; and (3) gender issues related to aid for education, health, land administration, fragile states and climate finance.

CBME 2017 Gender Equalities on the Czech Labor Market in Comparison with EU

“…According to Annesley et al (2015) increasing women's representation in politics has positive impacts on political attention regarding gender equality issues, gendering policy debates and promoting women-friendly policy outcomes. Grown et al (2016) mentioned that quotas can be a proven tool to increase female representation in political bodies. But it still so not solve the gender problem.…”

Professionalising gender and development expertise: innovations in capacity‐building and credentialing

“…Critics argued that the technical approach had not gone far enough in refining gender concepts, tools and practitioner skills and, in particular, had failed to recognize the importance of gender analysis specific to a development sector like nutrition or education. Where sector-specific analysis was done to inform gender integration in programmes, it had yielded results as, for example, in reducing maternal mortality and gender gaps in primary education (Esplen & Hedman, 2014;Grown et al, 2016).…”

Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic Development

“…The Millennium Development Goals and now the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have placed fiscal policy, including domestic resource mobilisation, at the centre of national and international development efforts (United Nations, ). The SDGs imply large and sustained public expenditures to continue the success of the Millennium Development Goals in improving human development indicators, especially in the areas of access to basic health care and primary education, with a particular emphasis on ending gender discrimination (Addison, Niño‐Zarazúa, & Tarp, ; Grown, Addison, & Tarp, ).…”