Gender Toolkit for International Finance Watchers

Anna Rooke
April 2009
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 contain electronic hyperlinks to a vast array of available gender resources. Just click on an underlined word to be directed to the specific tool you need!

JOIN US! Leveraging IFI funds for reproductive health & HIV/Aids
Gender Action invites your organization to become a member of an advocacy campaign to pressure International Financial Institutions (IFIs) to increase and improve their spending on reproductive health and HIV/AIDS, as well as remove their loan conditionalities which impede progress toward achieving the reproductive health and HIV/AIDS Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Download our Toolkit: Increasing and Improving Multilateral Development Banks' Funding for Reproductive Health & HIV/AIDS. A useful toolkit for civil society groups worldwide to hold MDBs accountable on meeting their promises to promote reproductive health and respond effectively to HIV/AIDS.

NEW PUBLICATIONS!

Doubling the Damage: World Bank Climate Investment Funds Undermine Climate and Gender Justice
Anna Rooke
This new paper is a first-look examining how the new World Bank-administered Climate Investment Funds will impact both climate and gender justice.

NEW GENDER ACTION LINKS!
We are linking up gender justice 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.
Gender, IFIs and Extractive Industries
• Gender, International Finance, Climate Change

The Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Challenges in Development Aid by Marcia.E.Greenberg and Elaine Zuckerman is a chapter in MAKING PEACE WORK: The Challenges of Social and Economic Reconstruction, Tony Addison and Tilman Brück, editors, Palgrave MacMillan, United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics and Research (UNU-WIDER), 2009. The chapter, concluding that few World Bank and other donor post-conflict reconstruction loans and grants identify or address gender discrimination issues, strongly recommends that donors keep their promises to promote gender equality to make peace work.

IFI Gender Audit and Advocacy: A Toolkit for Chinese Civil Society Organizations
In November 2008, Gender Action and the Women’s Law Studies and Legal Aid Center of Peking University (WLSLAC) published this toolkit to provide Chinese civil society organizations with tools to hold public taxpayer-supported International Financial Institutions (IFIs) accountable for meeting their promises to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment through their investments. We hope that this toolkit will provide Chinese civil society groups the tools needed to monitor and conduct advocacy to call on the IFIs to ensure that their investments in China improve and do not harm men’s and women’s livelihoods and the environment.

Gender Action/WLSLAC’s joint gender audit of a representative sample of 50 IFI investments in China
Gender Action and WLSLAC recently completed a gender audit of a representative sample of 50 World Bank, IFC and ADB projects in China. Our gender audit quick sheets spotlights the positive and negative gender impacts of IFI investments in China. We hope that our gender audit findings will help the Chinese government and IFIs improve their gender track record in designing future investments in China and provide information for civil society advocacy on the IFIs.



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

GENDER ACTION UPDATES

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.

Update #5, Fall 2008
Update #4, Spring 2008

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