Financing For Gender Equality

Author : Zohra Khan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137461012
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Financing for Gender Equality written by Zohra Khan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays addresses the glaring gap between policy commitments and actual investments in gender equality, ranging across sectors and focusing on development aid, peace-building and climate funds. Casting a spotlight on the application of gender-responsive budgeting in public budgetary policies, systems and processes, the contributions to this volume explore the chequered trajectories of these efforts in Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Andalucía. Critiquing systems of finance, from adherence to neo-liberal macroeconomic fundamentals which prioritise fiscal austerity, the book makes a compelling case for reframing and re-prioritizing budgets to comply with human rights standards, with a particular view to realizing women’s rights. The authors highlight the paltry funding for women’s rights organizations and movements and examine the prospects for making financing gender responsive. The specific policy, strategy and technical recommendations and the connections across silos which articulate the authors’ suggested operational levers will appeal to researchers, practitioners, students, policymakers, gender equality and human rights activists alike.

Author : United Nations Women
Publisher : United Nations
ISBN 13 : 9213614411
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Financing for Gender Equality in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals written by United Nations Women and published by United Nations. This book was released on 2016-03-20 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication identifies a series of macro-level tools to create a supportive environment and generate the resources to promote Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to gender equality. A key argument is that financing for gender equality can be self-sustaining because of the feedback effects from gender equality to economy-wide well-being. The author explores investments into physical and social infrastructures, as well as monetary policy tools to promote gender equality.

Author : Mariama Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317440552
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Climate Change Financing written by Mariama Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the state of global climate change policy and the financing of climate resilient public infrastructure. It explains the sources of tensions and conflict between developing and developed countries with regard to global climate protection policies, and highlights the biases and asymmetries that may work against gender equality, women’s empowerment and poverty eradication. Gender and Climate Change Financing: Coming Out of the Margin provides an overview of the scientific, economic and political dynamics underlying global climate protection. It explores the controversial issues that have stalled global climate negotiations and offers a clear explanation of the link between adaptation and mitigation strategies and gender issue. It also maps the full range of public, private and market-based climate finance instruments and funds. This book will be a useful tool for those engaged with climate change, poverty eradication, gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Author : Tina Johnson
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
ISBN 13 : 9780850928662
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Change Or Real Change? written by Tina Johnson and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 2008 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Change or Real Change? presents key thinking from experts around the Commonwealth on a topic which is currently of great international concern: how to ensure that resources are available to effect the changes promised by those promoting gender equality, and how to check that promises turn into results. The contributors, all of them development practitioners coming from diverse backgrounds, share one common goal, to influence governments and bilateral and multilateral organizations to scale up their commitments to financing gender equality.

Author : Collectif
Publisher : OECD
ISBN 13 : 9264300155
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Private Philanthropy for Development written by Collectif and published by OECD. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philanthropy’s role in advancing sustainable development attracts a lot of attention. This report calls into question long-held assumptions about the volume, nature and potential of foundations’ engagement in developing countries, and the role they can play to support the SDGs. It presents ground-breaking data and analysis that capture previously non-existent global and comparable quantitative and qualitative data on how foundations support development. The report examines philanthropic resource flows for development purposes, as well as foundations’ priorities, practices and partnering behaviours. It presents fresh perspectives and action-oriented recommendations to optimise philanthropy’s role in support of sustainable development. This report offers practical insights for government policy makers and decision makers in civil society organisations, social enterprises and foundations. It results from close co-operation between the OECD Development Centre’s Network of Foundations Working for Development (netFWD) and the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate.

Author : Ms.Lisa L Kolovich
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1484348877
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fiscal Policies and Gender Equality written by Ms.Lisa L Kolovich and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, women around the world have had fewer opportunities than men in education, employment, health care, and politics. The moral argument for gender equality is clear, and the economic evidence is mounting. The International Monetary Fund and other international institutions have worked to help whittle away at the barriers that prevent girls and women from achieving their full economic potential. This book is based on a joint research project between the IMF and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development on gender budgeting around the world. The book summarizes prominent gender budgeting initiatives in more than 80 countries. Gender budgeting allows fiscal authorities to ensure that tax spending and policies address inequality and the advancement of women. Gender budgeting goals include increasing access to education, childcare, and health services; raising female labor force participation; and eradicating violence against women.

Author : Vanessa Erogbogbo
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
ISBN 13 : 1849291004
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Responsive Investment Handbook written by Vanessa Erogbogbo and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 2013 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender Responsive Investment is a process of ensuring gender-equitable access to financial services and investment. This Handbook supports policy-makers to identify the policies, laws and regulations that hinder women's access to finance, and assists financial institutions to deliver inclusive, well-designed products and services for women.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
ISBN 13 : 9292544373
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Tool Kit: Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprise Finance and Development written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tool kit is to help staff and consultants of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) conceptualize and design gender-responsive public policy and projects in the micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise sector. It guides users in the design of project and program outputs, activities, inputs, indicators, and targets to respond to gender issues in micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise development and finance operations. ADB staff can use the tool kit to identify social and gender issues to be documented in the initial poverty and social analysis during the concept phase. Consultants can use it to carry out more detailed social and gender analysis during the project preparatory technical assistance or detailed design or due diligence phase. It should be noted that the tool kit is not meant to be prescriptive. Rather, it offers a menu of entry points that the project team can choose from.

Author : Janet G. Stotsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000030628
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Using Fiscal Policy and Public Financial Management to Promote Gender Equality written by Janet G. Stotsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how fiscal policy and management can promote gender equality in developing as well as developed countries. Providing an international look at gender budgeting, it draws on countries at different levels of development, with an emphasis on low-income developing countries. It introduces the reader to the main trends in gender equality, the key ideas and rationale of gender budgeting from a fiscal policy perspective and where gender budgeting fits into public financial management. It offers case studies and other empirical evidence from developing, emerging, and developed countries on what works in using fiscal policy and public financial management to narrow gender gaps in education, health care, access to infrastructure, and economic empowerment. It also provides policy recommendations appropriate to countries at different levels of development. The reader will gain an understanding of how fiscal policy and public financial management can contribute to gender equality and women’s advancement. The book provides a well-grounded set of conclusions and policy recommendations, drawn from evaluation of the evidence. The focus is on low-income developing countries but is combined with a well-rounded look at developing countries, more generally, emerging markets, and developed countries as well. This book will be a valuable resource for economists and policy makers, particularly those in developing countries still grappling with large disparities between women and men. It will also prove useful to researchers and those who provide technical assistance and aid to countries on fiscal policies and tools for gender equality.

Author : Ms.Lisa L Kolovich
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1484322045
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Excerpt: Fiscal Policies and Gender Equality written by Ms.Lisa L Kolovich and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, women around the world have had less opportunity than men in education, employment, and health care, and less political representation. The moral argument for gender equality is clear, and the economic evidence is mounting. The International Monetary Fund and other international institutions have focused in recent years on developing a range of approaches to help whittle away at the barriers that prevent girls and women from achieving their full economic potential. This book is based on a joint research project between the IMF and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development on gender budgeting around the world. The book summarizes some of the most prominent gender budgeting efforts in more than 80 countries tried over the last two decades. The research team relied on published materials, developed a questionnaire sent to the ministries of finance of all 189 IMF member countries, and conducted interviews with country officials and international organizations that offer technical assistance to countries seeking to implement gender budgeting. Although the gender gap is shrinking, progress remains uneven across many regions of the world. Gender budgeting allows fiscal authorities to ensure that tax spending and policies address inequality and the advancement of women in areas such as education, health, and economic empowerment. Gender budgeting has been targeted to a variety of goals such as access to education, childcare, and health services; raising female labor force participation; and eradicating violence against women. There are still many lessons to be learned in implementing the appropriate government policies and fiscal measures to continue promoting women’s development and gender equality.