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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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