Financing for gender equality and women’s rights
| Type | Voluntary commitment by other stakeholders |
|---|---|
| Organisation | The OECD-DAC Network on Gender Equality (GENDERNET) |
| Scope | Global |
| Themes | Cross-cutting areas; Data, monitoring, and follow-up; Domestic public resources; International public finance |
Description
The OECD Development Assistance Committee’s (DAC) Network on Gender Equality (GENDERNET) commits to strengthen accountability for the effective implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 5 and the other targets on gender equality in the SDGs by systematically tracking and analysing aid statistics and donor practice in support of achieving gender equality, women’s empowerment and the realisation of women’s human rights.
Partners
All members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC).
Targets
•Increase ODA in support of gender equality, both through dedicated programmes (marked “principal” with the DAC Gender Equality Policy Marker) and through gender mainstreaming (marked “significant”).
•Address underinvestment in women’s economic rights through increasing ODA in support of gender equality in the economic and productive sectors (both principal and significant).
•Implement a new code in the DAC’s statistical system to track and analyse – for the first time ever – ODA in support of ending violence against women and girls, including female genital mutilation and early and forced marriage.
•Improve coverage and quality of reporting on ODA in support of gender equality and women’s rights.
•Encourage OECD-DAC countries to report on the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation’s Gender Equality Indicator which monitors the proportion of countries that track and make public allocations for gender equality.
Indicators
•Quantity of ODA that is reported as principal and significant with the DAC Gender Equality Marker – overall and by sector – in particular in the economic and productive sectors.
•Aid statistics published annually for each DAC donor on the amount and proportion of their ODA in support of ending violence against women and girls.
•New supporting guidance and minimum standards developed to support DAC agencies in applying the gender equality policy marker.
•Number of countries reporting on the Global Partnership Gender Equality Indicator.
Resources
Official Development Assistance committed to gender equality and the empowerment of women by OECD-DAC Member States.
Timeframe
Annually reporting from January 2016.