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Promoting gender equality in new aid modalities and partnerships: Experiences from Africa
July 2006
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
The March 2005 Paris Declaration commits the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development/Development Assistance Committee (OECD/DAC) donors and developing countries to work together on five key principles for enhancing aid effectiveness. The principles—Ownership, Alignment, Harmonization, Managing for Results, and Mutual Accountability—seek to build country leadership over development policies; streamline and consolidate donor funding in line with national development priorities; coordinate donor actions to reduce costs and enhance transparency; increase the focus on results; and build donor and developing country accountability for development results. A High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness will be held in Ghana in 2008 to review progress in implementing the five principles.
The aid effectiveness agenda is changing development assistance architecture by promoting new mechanisms for channeling aid and new partnerships for managing aid. Recognizing this, gender equality advocates have initiated dialogue and planning on the opportunities and potential risks associated with aid reform processes. On this basis, UNIFEM and the European Union (EU) convened
the conference, Owning Development: Promoting Gender Equality in New Aid Modalities and Partnerships, in November 2005 in Brussels, Belgium. The conference brought together gender advocates and representatives from UN and EU member states and institutions and OECD/DAC to discuss opportunities for accelerating progress on gender equality and development cooperation in the context of the new aid modalities. To follow up, UNIFEM collaborated with the Government of Burundi to convene a regional consultation on Aid Effectiveness and Gender Equality in Africa in July 2006 in Bujumbura, Burundi with participants from government, NGOs, regional bodies, donors and UN agencies.
This report reflects country-level experiences shared at the Burundi consultation on the gender equality opportunities and challenges arising from aid reform processes. Cases from Zambia, Kenya, Senegal, Ghana and Burundi are explored in the report. While the roll-out of new aid modalities is being experienced differently due to varied institutions, political situations and development challenges, in each instance opportunities exist to identify entry points and strategies to promote gender equality in the aid reform agenda. The report pays particular attention to the strategies and recommended follow-up action that will support gender equality advocates to promote implementation of commitments to women’s rights and national gender and development priorities at the High Level Forum in Ghana, 2008.
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