Aid Effectiveness
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Getting at the roots: Reintegrating human rights & gender equality in post-2015 development agendaApril 2013
The following paper was submitted by AWID to the UNICEF/UN Women Global Thematic Consultation on post-2015 agenda "Addressing Inequalities" (October 2012) |
Primer 12: The United Nations Development Cooperation Forum Through a Women's Rights LensFebruary 2013
By Julia Miller and Anne Schoenstein Primer 12 provides an overview of the UN Development Cooperation Forum (DCF). It focuses in on the DCF origins and strategic plans for the future, while emphasizing the importance of the DCF for women's rights and gender equality advocates. |
Advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women: role of development cooperationFebruary 2013
Preparing for the 2014 Development Cooperation Forum Vienna Policy Dialogue - 13-14 December 2012 |
Primer 11: A Feminist Perspective on the Busan 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness and its OutcomesJanuary 2013
Primer 11 reviews the renewed development cooperation framework which emerged from the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, Busan 2011. |
The aid and development effectiveness process from a women's rights perspective: a snapshotApril 2012
This document was prepared as a guide to the sessions relating to development cooperation at the 12th AWID International Forum in Istanbul, Turkey, 19-22 April 2012. |
Fact and Fiction: Examining Microcredit/Microfinance from a Feminist PerspectiveMarch 2012
By Soma Kishore Parthasarathy. Edited by Natalie Raaber, AWID Feminist researcher, activist, and practitioner, Soma K. Parthasarathy, shares her experiences, reflections and analysis on microcredit from a critical feminist perspective. This paper provides a definition of microcredit, then situates microcredit both historically and within present debates on development and economics, and discusses its impact on particular groups of women. |
Primer 10: On the Road to Busan: What is at stake for gender equality and women’s rights?October 2010
This primer is devoted to outlining official and civil society preparations in the lead up to the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4) taking place in Busan, South Korea, from November 29 to December 1, 2011. It also points out what is at stake for gender equality and women’s rights at the HLF-4. AWID would like to acknowledge the valuable contributions made by WIDE Network to this Primer. |
Key Demands from Women’s Rights Organizations and Gender Equality Advocates To the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (Busan, Korea, 2011) and the Development Cooperation Forum (2012)July 2011
Feminists, gender equality and women’s rights activists and organizations mobilizing on the road to the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF4) to be held in Busan on 29 Nov - 1 Dec 2011 reaffirm their vision for transformation and offer concrete recommendations for improving the international development cooperation architecture in a set of key demands. |
Development Cooperation Beyond the Aid Effectiveness Paradigm: A women’s rights perspectiveMay 2011
By Anne Schoenstein and Cecilia Alemany Contributors: Natalie Raaber, Diana Aguiar, Alejandra Scampini, Fernanda Hopenhaym, Verónica Vidal, and Ivahanna Larrosa |
Implementing the Paris Declaration: Implications for the Promotion of Women’s Rights and Gender EqualityJanuary 2008
by Cecilia Alemany, Nerea Craviotto, Fernanda Hopenhaym. |
Conditionalities undermine the right to development: An analysis based on a Women’s and Human Rights PerspectiveOctober 2008
Coordinated by: Celilia Alemany and Graciela Dede An analysis of the position against against economic policy conditionalities based on a women's and human rights perspective. |
Issue PapersJanuary 2008
This series of four Brief Issue Papers and one Debate Issue Paper were prepared by four women’s rights organisations: WIDE, AWID, DAWN, and FEMNET1. The papers were written to provide input on harmonisation of gender equality and women’s empowerment for the preparation of a series of Round Table discussions during the 2008 3rd High Level Forum, in Accra, Ghana. These papers provide the key concerns highlighted by women’s rights organisations on the implementation of the Paris Declaration Principle of Management for Development Results. |
Development Cooperation and Women's Rights SeriesJanuary 2013
Understanding the Aid Effectiveness Agenda Primers The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness is the most recent agreement by donor and recipient countries to reform the delivery and management of aid monies in order to strengthen its impact and effectiveness. The Aid Effectiveness and Women’s Rights Series Primers shares information, analysis and proposals needed to support women’s right activists in contributing to a comprehensive, balanced, and inclusive approach to reforming aid so that it reaches the people who need it most. |