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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.
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Gender,
IFIs and Extractive Industries
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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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