Letter to President Obama on IFIs, debt, and gender-based violence in Haiti
Gender Action recently sent a letter to President Obama to end gender-based violence and debt in Haiti through IFI intervention.
Within a month of sending our letter, the IMF cancelled most of Haiti's outstanding debt.
Gender and Debt Impacts of IFI Grants and Loans in Post-Earthquake Haiti
This factsheet summarizes findings from Gender Action's analysis of IFI post-earthquake assistance. It demonstrates first that IFI assistance fails to address Haiti's escalating gender-based violence, and second that although IFIs have cancelled most Haiti debt, IFI debt remains that impoverished Haiti cannot afford to repay. This factsheet is part of the Haiti Advocacy Working Group materials presented to Congress described below.
Haiti Advocacy Working Group Materials
The ad hoc Haiti Advocacy Working Group coalition, of which Gender Action is an active member, delivered materials for the July 27, 2010 Congressional Black Congress Hearing, "Focus on Haiti: The Road to Recovery - A Six Month Review". These materials recommend that Congress ensure that U.S. assistance for Haiti promotes optimal local agriculture, shelter, education, health, anti-rape and other programs.
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Gender Toolkit for International Finance Watchers
Anna Rooke
Gender Action provides a vital and user friendly toolkit
for civil society groups to incorporate gender perspectives
into their work on the IFIs or any other projects. All sections
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gender resources. Just click on an underlined word to be directed
to the specific tool you need!
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Speaking up for Gender: A Step-by-Step Guide to Holding IFIs Accountable
Diana Arango & Nicole Zarafonetis
Speaking Up for Gender is a user-friendly Guide providing grassroots groups and others affected by IFI projects with information, tips and guidelines for submitting a gender discrimination complaint to an IFI accountability mechanism.
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Anna Rooke
This new paper is a first-look examining how the new World
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groups and international finance-watchers! Gender Action Links
are brief, reader-friendly resources that critically connect
gender, international finance and other key development issues,
and provide case examples, resources and partnership opportunities.
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ABOUT GENDER ACTION
Gender Action is the only organization dedicated to promoting
gender equality and women's rights in all International Financial
Institution (IFI) investments such as those of the World Bank.
With partners from around the globe we
• Track
and analyze IFI investments
• Do
advocacy to ensure IFI investments empower women and eliminate
violations against them
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View our biannual Gender Action Updates which present our
achievements and projects to ensure that big IFI investments
promote and do not violate women’s rights.
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#6, Spring 2009
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#5, Fall 2008
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