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FRIDE:
FROM BEIJING TO PARIS - THE RELEVANCE OF GENDER EQUALITY FOR AID
EFFECTIVENESS - BY CARMEN DE LA CRUZ 14/04/2008
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UNITED
NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / 14
April 2008 --
This Comment article analyses the appropriateness of gender equality
and women’s rights as development objectives for the efficiency of aid. It
argues that the Paris Declaration, as a policy that guides new associations and
modalities of aid, should be employed in the service of women’s rights and
gender equality. With this in mind, the text explores the opportunities for and
challenges facing new instruments such as budget support and sectoral focus
Similarly,
it affirms that both donor and partner countries must assign and commit aid
according to their commitments in the international framework. This includes
key agreements on human rights, women’s rights and development.
Finally,
it offers a series of recommendations that would serve to make sure gender
issues were properly included and considered in debate that the Third High
Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra in early 2008.
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Bio
author: Carmen de la Cruz
Carmen
de la Cruz is an International consultant in gender and development. Since 2005,
she is working on the gender related impact of new aid modalities. UNIFEM
consultant for Latin America since 2007, Carmen de la Cruz is collaborating in
the programme "EC/UN Partnership on Gender Equality for Development and
Peace" in its aid effectiveness component.
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