Event
Owning Development: Promoting Gender Equality in New Aid Modalities and Partnerships
Event Type: Conference, Meeting or Symposium
Date: 09.11.05 – 11.11.05
Location: Belgium – Renaissance Hotel, Rue de Parnasse 19, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
Details
UNIFEM, in partnership with the European Commission, hosted a conference to assess:
- What effect changes in the development architecture have on gender equality and women's rights;
- What strategies and mechanisms are necessary to ensure that gender equality imperatives are central as the new aid architecture emerges and development cooperation responds to shifting international priorities; and
- What partnerships need to be put in place and/or strengthened to spur implementation of commitments to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Beijing Platform for Action.
The conference was organized as a follow-up to three important events in 2005 that linked commitments to gender equality with development cooperation goals: the 10-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action, the adoption of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (adopted in March 2005), and the 2005 World Summit.
Gender equality advocates from developed and developing countries, as well as representatives from governments, academia and donor bodies, gathered to discuss strategies to ensure that women's rights imperatives are central as the new aid architecture evolves. They discussed ways to embed gender perspectives into national development planning and aid modalities, and mechanisms to track and measure progress towards gender equality in governance and budgetary processes, so that governments' obligations to women are backed up by the allocation of sufficient resources.
Sponsored by: UNIFEM, European Commission
Contact:
Leigh Pasqual, Media Specialist
Tel: +1 212-906-5463
Related Documents/Links
- Concept Note
- Conference Programme
- Final Conference Report
- Accountability Upside Down: Gender Equality in a Partnership for Poverty Eradication (PDF, 5.6MB)
- News Release: ‘Aid Effectiveness’ Will Fall Short Unless Greater Attention Paid to Gender Equality (2005-11-10)
- “Centralizing the MDGs in National Development Planning” by Ms Glenys Kinnock
- “The National Development Policy Process: Opportunities for Engagement” by Ms Rehema Kerefu-Sameji
- “The National Development Policy Process: Opportunities for Engagement: A Case of Uganda” by Ms Jane Anyu Mpagi
- “Making the Connections: Gender Equality, the 2005 World Summit and the New Aid Architecture” by Ms Noeleen Heyzer
- “Effectiveness of Aid and Gender Equality” by Mr Richard Carey
- “Gender Equality and Development Cooperation: Country Ownership and Donor Partnership,” by Ms Lieve Fransen
- “Embedding Gender Equality in National Development Planning” by H.E. Ms Marcela Suazo
- “Intégration de la dimension genre dans l'élaboration et l'analyse du budget de l'état” par M. Saif Eddine Senouci
- “Measuring Progress in Gender Equality” by H.E. Ms Patricia Espinosa Torres
- “Embedding Gender Equality in the MDGs” by H.E. Dr Ing Kantha Phavi
- “Suivi et évaluation de la prise en compte du genre dans les politiques et programmes au Bénin” par Mme Jeanne Adjibodou Makoutode
- “Gender Equality in Sector-Wide Support and Budget Support,” by Mr Bernard Petit
