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New Publications!
Speaking up for Gender: A Step-by-Step Guide to Holding IFIs Accountable
Diana Arango & Nicole Zarafonetis
April 2010
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.
En defensa de la igualdad de género: guía paso a paso para que las IFI rindan cuentas disponible en Español.
Gender Toolkit for International Finance Watchers
Anna Rooke
Updated July 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!
Herramientas de Género para Observadores Financieros Internacionales disponible en Español.
Doubling
the Damage: World Bank Climate Investment Funds Undermine
Climate and Gender Justice
Anna Rooke
2009
This new paper is a first-look examining how the new World
Bank-administered Climate Investment Funds will impact both
climate and gender justice.
The
Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Challenges
in Development Aid
Marcia.E.Greenberg and Elaine Zuckerman
2009 
Current Publications
IFI
Gender Audit and Advocacy: A Toolkit for Chinese Civil Society
Organizations
Mande Limbu, Elaine Zuckerman and Jingyi Zhang
November 2008 
Gender
Action/WLSLAC’s Joint Gender Audit of a Representative
Sample of 50 IFI Investments in China
Gender Action and WLSLAC
2008
Empty
Promises: Gender Scorecard of World Bank-managed Post-Tsunami
Reconstruction in Indonesia
Suzanna Dennis and Warisha Yunus
September 2008
Mapping
multilateral development banks' spending on reproductive health
and HIV and AIDS
Suzanna Dennis and Elaine Zuckerman
June 2008 Gender & Development Volume 16 
Mapping
Multilateral Development Banks' Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS
Spending
Suzanna Dennis and Elaine Zuckerman
September 2007
Gender
Justice: A Citizen's Guide to Gender Accountability at International
Financial Institutions
Gender Action and the Center for International Environmental
Law
July 2007
The
Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The World
Bank Track Record
Elaine Zuckerman and Suzanna Dennis with Marcia E. Greenberg
June 2007
Policy
Space and the Gendered Impacts of International Financial
Institutions
Elaine Zuckerman
In the April 2007 Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars Asia Program Special Report No. 136, The
Policy Space Debate: Does a Globalized and Multilateral Economy
Constrain Development Policies? Edited by Bhumika Muchhala
Gender
Equality as Smart Economics: A World Bank Group Gender Action
Plan (GAP) (Fiscal years 2007-10): A Critique
Elaine Zuckerman
January 2007
Gender Guide
to World Bank and IMF Policy-Based Lending
Suzanna Dennis and Elaine Zuckerman
Gender Action, December 2006
This paper is also available in Spanish as follows, thanks
to generous translation work from Choike:
Guía
de Género Sobre la Política de Préstamos
del Banco Mundial y el FMI
Suzanna Dennis y Elaine Zuckerman
Diciembre de 2006

Boom-Time Blues:
Big Oil’s Gender Impacts in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and
Sakhalin
A Report by Gender Action and CEE Bankwatch Network, September
2006
Based on research and analysis by Fidanka Bacheva, Manana
Kochladze and Suzanna Dennis
See press coverage on Boom-Time
Blues 
The
Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Challenges
in Development Aid
Marcia Greenberg and Elaine Zuckerman, June 2006
Forthcoming chapter in a UNU-WIDER book, Making Peace Work
and a freestanding WIDER discussion paper

An
Introduction to Gender Budget Initiatives
Elaine Zuckerman
Presented in 2005 to macroeconomists and other stakeholders
involved in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Process in Bosnia
and Herzegovina
Also see Elaine Zuckerman’s related presentation on
Engendering
Macroeconomics in PRSPs
The Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: An
Analytical Framework for Policymakers
Elaine Zuckerman and Marcia Greenberg
Published as an article in Gender and Development, An Oxfam
Journal, Volume 12, Number 3, November 2004, Oxford, and as
a chapter in the book, Gender, Peacebuilding, and Reconstruction,
edited by Caroline Sweetman, Oxfam, Great Britain 2005
Invest
in Women Internationally
Elaine Zuckerman, 2005. A chapter in 50 Ways to Improve Women's
Lives: The Essential Guide for Achieving Health, Equality,
and Success for All edited and published by the National Council
of Women's Organizations (NCWO). Available for purchase from
NCWO and Amazon.com 
Gender
and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The World Bank Track Record
Adriana Quinones, Published by the Heinrich Böll Foundation,
2004
The
Gendered Impacts of World Bank Environment and Infrastructure
Projects in China
Presentation by Elaine Zuckerman at the Third Non-governmental
Organization Forum on International Environmental Cooperation
in China, 2003
Structural Adjustment’s
Gendered Impacts: the Case of Serbia and Montenegro
Aleksandra Vladisavljevic and Elaine Zuckerman, 2004
Reforming
the World Bank: Will the Gender Strategy Make a Difference?
A Study with China Case Examples (Updated Version)
Elaine Zuckerman and Wu Qing, Published by the Heinrich Böll
Foundation, 2005
Reforming
the World Bank: Will the New Gender Strategy Make a Difference?
A Study with China Case Examples
Elaine Zuckerman and Wu Qing, Published by the Heinrich
Böll Foundation, 2003
A
Gentle Touch? Gender and the World Bank — A Critical
Assessment
Nasreen Khundker, Prepared for the 2004 Gender Action-Heinrich
Böll Foundation-Bank Information Center Panel Discussion
of "Reforming the World Bank: Will the New Gender Strategy
Make a Difference?"
Do
Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers Address Gender Issues? A
Gender Audit of 2002 PRSPs
Elaine Zuckerman and Ashley Garrett
Published by Gender Action, 2003
This paper is also available in French as follows:
Les
cadres stratégiques de lutte contre la pauvreté
(CSLP) tiennent-ils compte de l'inégalité des
sexes? Évaluation des CSLP de 2002 en fonction
du principe de l'inégalité des sexes
Elaine Zuckerman et Ashley Garrett
Une Publication de Gender Action
A
Primer on Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers and Gender
Elaine Zuckerman
Published by Gender Action, 2002
Why
Engendering PRSPs Reduces Poverty, and the Case of Rwanda
Elaine Zuckerman
Published by the World Institute for Development Economics
and Research, 2001, Helsinki
‘Engendering’
Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs): The Issues and
The Challenges
Elaine Zuckerman
Published by Gender and Development, An Oxfam Journal, Volume
10, Number 3, 2002, Oxford
Evaluation
of Gender Mainstreaming in Advocacy Work on Poverty Reduction
Strategy Papers (PRSPs)
Elaine Zuckerman
Paper prepared for Oxfam, Great Britain, 2002
Poverty Reduction
Strategy Papers and Gender
Elaine Zuckerman
Paper prepared for GTZ, Germany, 2002
The
World Bank and Gender
Gender Action. Chapter in Responsible Reform of the World
Bank by the Coalition for World Bank Reform, 2002
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