measuring aid: the dac gender equality policy marker session: tracking and monitoring financing for...
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Measuring aid: The DAC gender equality policy marker
Session: Tracking and monitoring financing for gender equality
Jenny Hedman
DAC Network on Gender Equality
27 July 2011
What’s the DAC gender equality policy marker?
• Tool to identify Official Development Assistance that aims to achieve gender equality and strengthen women’s empowerment
• Used by all 24 bilateral members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
The DAC gender equality policy marker: methodology
Identifies whether the aid activity:
• Targets gender equality as the principal (main) objective• Targets gender equality as a significant objective
(mainstreaming)• Does not target gender equality
Overview of findings
• 31% of total bilateral aid by sector in 2008-09 targets gender equality = USD 24 billion/year
• Most of the gender equality focussed aid is allocated in the social sectors
Gender equality focus of different sectors
DAC members’ commitments, average per year 2008-09, %
Aid in the economic and productive sectors
• Much of gender equality focussed aid in the economic and productive sectors go to agriculture
• Donors should increase support for gender equality in sectors of transport, energy, trade, employment and agricultural inputs.
DAC members’ commitments, average per year 2007-08, %
21%
43%
25%
4%
12% 10%
34%
44%
19%
6%
12%
46%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
Aid allocations by recipient country
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Gender equality- focussed aid, % (*)
For reference: total sector
allocable aid
Yemen 0.85 60 249Congo, Dem. Rep. 0.81 47 935Niger 0.81 50 256Mali 0.80 39 667Afghanistan 0.80 33 1775Papua New Guinea 0.78 33 354Central African Rep. 0.77 34 80Liberia 0.77 44 213Cote d'Ivoire 0.76 41 128Cameroon 0.76 56 375
Countries with high levels of gender inequality receive relatively high shares of aid targeting gender equality
Aid to gender equality in fragile states
DAC members’ commitments, average per year 2007-08, %
Donors should increase investments in gender equality in the governance and security sectors in fragile states, to implement SCR 1325.
Aid allocations by donor
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Principal objective Significant objective
%
Gender equality focus of DAC donors’ aid programmes% of aid commitments, average 2008-09
Aid allocations by donor
Example: Canada
What can be improved?
• DAC members should assess all of their aid• All multilaterals could use the same or a
similar system
How is this information used for policy-making?
• Analysis and development of reports on different topics (fragile states, economic empowerment etc)
• Dissemination and use of figures donor by donor (for DAC peer reviews etc)
• Not a technically perfect tool – but political and allows for peer pressure
