Managing for Development Results and Gender Equality

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INPUTS FOR THE PREPARATION OF THE ROUND TABLE 4 ON MANAGING FOR DEVELOPMENT RESULTS 3rd High Level Forum, Accra, 2008 BRIEF ISSUE PAPER ON MANAGING FOR DEVELOPMENT RESULTS AND GENDER EQUALITY 1. Introduction The 3rd High Level Forum that will take place in Accra in September 2008 will have 9 Round Tables (RT), providing space for in-depth dialogue on selected topics. This Brief Issue Paper was prepared by a group of women’s rights organisations: WIDE, AWID, DAWN and FEMNET 1 , to give inputs on management for development results and gender equality for the preparation of RT4. This document provides a brief review of some key concerns highlighted by women’s rights organisations on the implementation of the Paris Declaration Principle of Management for Development Results. It also introduces proposals to promote further discussion and commitments on gender equality and women’s empowerment within the context of this principle, and presents a list of possible speakers to be considered in the design of the RT4. The ToRs of the RT 4 provide a good base to prepare the discussions, following the Generic ToRs for the Roundtables 2 in integrating the so-called cross-cutting issues 3 . We strongly suggest to adopt the proposals put forward at the Dublin + 1 Workshop to substitute the term ”cross-cutting issue” by ”policy priority issue” or ”central goals to development”, as the continued use of the term ”cross-cutting” perpetuates their marginalisation. 4 Environmental sustainability, gender equality and human rights are not a parallel debate of aid and development policies, but central development goals. 5 In this sense, it is also important to highlight that the women’s rights organisations refer to gender equality and not only to the concept of gender as it was suggested in the RT4 ToRs. We recommend the integration of the gender equality perspective. The current definition of gender doesn’t recognize the existing inequalities between genders and the need to focus on development outcomes that will promote gender equality, women’s rights and women’s empowerment.

1 This Brief Issue Paper was coordinated by Cecilia Alemany, with contributions from Lydia Alpizar, Fernanda Hopenhaym, and Michele Knab (AWID), Nerea Craviotto (WIDE), Therese Nyondiko (FEMNET) and Gigi Francisco (DAWN). 2 OECD Roundtables Generic Terms of Reference, December 17, 2007. 3 GENDERNET organized a first workshop to discuss the so-called cross-cutting issues in Dublin in 2007. The key messages from the Dublin workshop were: Gender equality, human rights and environmental sustainability: are fundamental cornerstones for achieving good development results; can be advanced through implementing the principles and partnership commitments of the Paris Declaration; and must be harnessed to advance the implementation of the Paris Declaration. In 2008, DFID and Gendernet followed this initiative in the Dublin + 1 workshop, on March 12 and 13 in London. 4 Irish Aid, Joint Assistance Strategies Brief. 5 See the Recommendations from the International Consultation of Women’s Organisations and Networks and Aid Effectiveness organized by the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), Women in Development Europe (WIDE) in Ottawa at the end of January 2008. Download from: http://www.awid.org/go.php?pg=ottawa_recommendations

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