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Professor Tarp has four decades of experience in academic and applied development economics research and teaching. His field experience covers more than two decades of in-country work in 35 countries across Africa and the developing world more...
Women suffer economic, social, and political discrimination. Much has been done over the last three decades to try and reverse such discrimination, and aid has played its part. Yet in many societies there is often a higher incidence of poverty among women than men, while women are also more likely to live in extreme poverty.
Over the last decade, aid donors have made strong commitments to improving the lives of women and girls. These commitments have translated into a four-fold increase in foreign aid towards gender equality and women’s empowerment, increasing from US$6.5 billion in 2002, to US$25.5 billion in 2011.
There are encouraging signs that foreign aid has helped reduce gender inequality, benefittingwomen and girls. In this animation we look at how aid works to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment. The film is part of a series produced by UNU-WIDER with the programme 'ReCom–Research and Communication on Foreign Aid'. It can, for instance, be used when teaching students about aid and what it can help achieve.
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Aid and gender – making foreign aid count
International Women’s Day on 8th March 2016 is a time to celebrate. It is also a time for reflection. We must constantly remind ourselves that while...
Journal Article
Gender Inequality, Female Leadership and Aid AllocationPart of Journal Special Issue Aid for Gender Equality and Development
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Gesture Politics or Real Commitment?We investigate whether donors give more aid to countries with larger gender gaps in education, health, or women’s rights, and whether they reward improvements in those indicators. We find some evidence that high gender gaps in education and health...
Research Brief
How can aid promote the empowerment of women?Aid projects that specifically target women tend be better at increasing gender equality than those that mainstream gender. The gender gap can be narrowed through public works that focus on providing decent employment for women as well as training...
Working Paper
Women’s EmpowermentRevisiting foundational feminist work on the concept of empowerment from the 1980s and 1990s, this paper draws on the findings of a multi-country research programme, ‘Pathways of Women’s Empowerment’, to explore pathways of positive change in women’s...
Research Brief
Is unpaid care work addressed well in World Bank projects?Only three out of 36 World Bank investments in Malawi, Mali, Niger and Rwanda appropriately address women’s unpaid care work. Despite the lack of World Bank investments specifically targeting unpaid care work, Bank investments do appear to be...
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Promoting Women’s Economic Empowerment Through Productive Employment and Social ProtectionThe paper attempts to examine the extent to which the ILO-supported projects have contributed to women’s economic empowerment and well-being i.e., from a gender perspective. The paper provides the ILO’s perspectives on gender dimensions of employment...
Position Paper
Aid and Gender EqualityThis position paper on Aid and Gender Equality was prepared by UNU-WIDER under the ReCom programme of Research (Re) and Communication (Com) on foreign aid. It aims to provide a coherent up-to-date overview and guide to a complex issue in the...
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Can Climate Finance Achieve Gender Equity in Developing Countries?We develop the climate finance-gender equity framework in this paper and use the ‘contextual-procedural-distributive’ equity as a lens of analysis to examine how climate finance helps challenge, and reinforce, gender inequities in the mitigation...
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Does Foreign Aid in Education Foster Gender Equality in Developing Countries?This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries. Heterogeneity effects by type of aid received and by type of recipients are investigated using system GMM methods. The results indicate...
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Storify - Aid for Gender Equality
The story of the event as told by Twitter. [<a href="//storify.com/UNUWIDER/aid-for-gender-equality-16-december-copenhagen-den" target="_blank">View...
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The Unintended Consequences of the MCP on Foreign Aid for Family PlanningSub-Saharan Africa receives 48 per cent more family planning aid than other regions. Countries with high fertility rates and large populations tend to receive more family planning aid The USA’s Mexico City Policy (MCP) reduces total foreign aid to...
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From the Editor's Desk (January 2014)
28 January 2014 Tony Addison The first Angle of 2014 comes amidst the start up of our new research programme which is now kicked off. It has three big...
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Using Evidence and Operational Responses to Accelerate Gender Equality in KenyaAgriculture is a main contributor to pro-poor growth in Africa, but gender inequalities in the sector hold back agricultural growth and affect household welfare negatively. The sector has been characterized by a lack of gender-disaggregated data and...
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Gender Inequality, Female Leadership, and Aid AllocationThe aid allocation literature has neglected gender-specific needs for aid. We assess the hypothesis that gender inequality in education is more likely to affect the aid allocation of donor countries with female leadership in the relevant ministry. We...
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Unpacking Women’s Health in Public-Private PartnershipsThere has been a significant increase in funding for health programmes in development over the last two decades, partly due to the formation of public-private partnerships. This paper examines the impact of public-private partnerships from the...
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Goodbye and hello ReCom!
The research programme ReCom – Research and communication on foreign aid – is ending this year. There is a large and unique collection of research...
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Social Transfer Programmes and School Enrolment in MalawiThis paper investigates the impact of social transfer programmes on school enrolment and child labour in Malawi utilizing a micro-simulation evaluation method. For this purpose, we simulate four hypothetical scenarios in which a household receives:...
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Asian Donor Support for Gender Equality and Women’s EmpowermentSince the 1990s, gender mainstreaming has been a widely accepted strategy for promoting gender equality within governments, multilateral agencies, and development NGOs, although critics continue to question its premises and results. This paper...
Working Paper
The Ideal of Gender Justice and the UNSCR 1325The paper examines why the efforts to promote gender justice by development aid have not succeeded in dealing with deeply-rooted structural injustices which prevent the realization of social justice and gender equality. The study analyses the...
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Seven reasons why research doesn’t become policy
Over the last decade there has been increasing demand to make research more useful and applicable for policy-making. And that is also very true within...
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No rest until New Year’s Eve
Silence reigns in the office these days. Doors are closed, discussions are short, and faces look strained. The reason is that we are in the process of...
Research Brief
Gender MainstreamingThe three Nordic development agencies Danida (Denmark) Sida (Sweden), and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (FMFA) all recognise gender mainstreaming as an important part of the policy-making process. Gender equality is a well-funded...
Research Brief
An Assessment of a Village Development Programme in MozambiqueThe programme did lead participating households to use improved seeds. Food consumption scores did not improve after the programme. However during the programme participating households moved to more sustainable strategies to cope with food shortages...
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This project is part of ReCom - research and communication on foreign aid
Theme: Past, 2010-11