ReCom results meeting: Aid for Gender Equality

Copenhagen, Denmark
UNU-WIDER
Time: 
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 08:30 to 17:00

Gender equality and women’s empowerment are central to improved living standards, well-being, and economic growth. This has prompted donors to increase foreign aid resources for gender equality related initiatives. Yet, the actual impact of these interventions has not received much attention by donors, policy makers or academics. Therefore the key question remains: how can the goal of gender equality be achieved and facilitated through foreign aid?

More information on the event website.

 

08:30-09:00   Registration
09:00-09:20   Welcome and introduction
    Charlotte Slente, State Secretary for Development Policy, Danida
Finn Tarp, Director, UNU-WIDER

Amartya Sen, Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University
     - First screening of interview on the importance of gender in development

Caren Grown, Economist in Residence, American University
09:20-10:45   Introduction to gender and foreign aid: flows, allocation, big picture outcomes
    Moderator:
Speakers:		 Tony Addison, Chief Economist and Deputy Director, UNU-WIDER
Léonce Ndikumana, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
     - Aid, human capital, and gender
Kai Gehring, Research Associate, University of Heidelberg
     - Gender inequality and the allocation of aid
Mina Baliamoune-Lutz, Professor of Economics, University of North Florida
     - Aid and women’s political participation in the Middle East and North Africa

Discussion
10:45-11:00   Coffee
11:00-12:15   Actors of foreign aid
    Moderator:
Speakers:






 		 Roger Williamson, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Development Studies (IDS)
Eugenia McGill, Lecturer Columbia University
     - Asian donors
Malokele Nanivazo, Research Fellow, UNU-WIDER
     - Nordic donors
Nilima Gulrajani, Senior Researcher, University College
     - Private actors

Discussion
12:15-12:20   Short animation
12:20-13:15   Lunch
13:15-14:00   Aid effectiveness and gender equality - from a partner country perspective
    Moderator:
Speakers:		 Finn Tarp, Director, UNU-WIDER
Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, the speaker of the Jatiyo Sangshad/
Parliament of Bangladesh
Khieu Serey Vuthea, Director General of Social Development,
Ministry of Women's Affairs, Cambodia
Attiya Inayatullah, Former Ministry for Women's Development,
Population Planning, Social Welfare and Special Education, Member of Parliament, and only Women member on the National Security Council (1999-2001), Pakistan
 
Discussion
14:00-15:15   Aid and sectoral issues
    Moderator:
Speakers:		 Tony Addison, Chief Economist and Deputy Director, UNU-WIDER
Jasmine Gideon, Lecturer, University of London
     - Aid in the health sector
Nathalie Holvoet, Lecturer, University of Antwerp
     - Aid in the education
Sirkku K. Hellsten, Professor, University of Dar es Salaam
     - Aid in Support of UN resolution 1325
Helle Munk Ravnborg, Senior Researcher, DIIS
     - Land administration, gender equality and development assistance: Lessons learned and challenges ahead
      
Discussion
15:15-15:30   Coffee
15:30-16:45   Panel discussion on the future of aid and gender equality
    Moderator: 
Speakers:
 		 Caren Grown, Economist in Residence, American University
Cindy Clark, Co-Executive Director, Association for Women's Rights in Devlopment
Lucia Hanmer, Lead Economist, Gender and Development, World Bank
Patti O’Neill, Co-ordinator, OECD
Carolina Wennerholm, Senior Policy Specialist on Gender Equality, Sida

Discussion
16:45-17:00   Conclusion
    Speakers: Tony Addison, Chief Economist and Deputy Director, UNU-WIDER
   -   Wrap up
Finn Tarp, Director, UNU-WIDER

 

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Findings

Donors need to coordinate their aid to ensure that it does not have a Dutch Disease like effect.
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When seeking to develop human capacity donors must be aware of the capability trap.
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Projects aimed at democratic development will be more successful if they engage both opposition parties and civil society.
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Traditional development policy encourages countries to legitimize their institutions through mimicking form, rather than through demonstrating...
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Foreign aid has improved Malian democracy by strengthening both the economy and the civil society.
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Women’s rights are still seen as rights that have to give way to the goals of peace and justice, even when radical political changes take place.
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Three major trends are effecting urban Africa; growth, decentralization, and democratization.
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Partisan politics has motivated central government interference in Kampala’s governance.
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Urban poverty reduction requires improve municipal governance and the active involvement of the poor.
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Looking at aid volatility at only the aggregate level hides the facts that the volatility of individual aid sectors is often greater than overall aid...
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The more agricultural machinery is adopted the more associated CO2 emissions can be expected from the agricultural sector.
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In the short term environmental concerns such as water stress and environmental degradation present more of a threat to low income countries than...
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Successful capacity development requires a long-term, sector wide approach, and the involvement of the domestic government.
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As EU aid has become mainstream its distinctive features have become its biggest assets.
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While promoting employment is important, the greater development challenge is to generate higher earnings for those who are already working.
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With the right mix of budget support and aid on delivery, aid delivered through program based approaches is no more fungible than project aid.
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Aid is more likely to cause a Dutch Disease like effect in countries with weak governance.
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The function of an institution is more important than its form.
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Democracy assistance to Ghana has been most effective when aimed at projects supported by the incumbent government.
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Donors in Mali could have done more to avert the collapse of democracy.
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Transitional Justice needs to ensure that gender justice is integrated into wider processes of reform.
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Aid aimed at improving urban services should focus on local government capacity, and connecting local populations to those who provide their services.
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The Cities Alliance and urban poor funds represent new channels through which donors can fund local urban poverty movements.
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Looking at aid volatility at only the aggregate level hides the facts that volatility has different effects in different aid sectors.
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CO2 emissions are lower if machinery is powered with electricity rather than with diesel.
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Low income countries face high volatility in the short term and huge challenges in the long term. 
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There are 900 million people who work but earn too little to achieve a standard of living of US$2 a day.
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Donor coordination is crucial to limiting the fungibility of aid.
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Both fertilizer and pesticide consumption are associated with higher levels of CO2 emissions.
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Agricultural investment is a contributing factor for CO2 emissions.
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Droughts are associated with higher CO2 emissions, but other natural disasters are not.
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Volatility in one aid sector sometimes leads to volatility in another.
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 Nutritional measures taken during early childhood and school years can maximize developmental potential and lifelong health.
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The effectiveness of education aid is to a large degree dependent on the stability of the institutions in the recipient country.
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Political factors have a strong influence on the incidence and quality of evaluation processes and the extent to which their findings influence...
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The most successful projects and programmes in the healthcare sector are those that give local partners real ownership over the development process.
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Following the Paris Declaration principles of ownership, alignment, and harmonization is key to ensuring the effectiveness of health aid.
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An increase of education aid by one per cent increases the rate of primary education enrolment by 0.06 percentage points.
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Developing the technical capacity of those involved in education is a crucial part of improving educational quality.
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In recent years basic education has become largely universal, and gender equity in education access is close to being realized.
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Social protection programmes have the capacity to make a significant contribution to the global reduction of poverty and vulnerability.
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Aid fragmentation creates extra costs for recipient countries and reduces the effectiveness of foreign aid to health.
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Often national governments are bypassed when delivering aid designed to improve healthcare.
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Many of the problems related to capacity development in the education sector are the result of the project aid approaches adopted by donors.
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Development assistance to health will be most effective if there exists a relationship of mutual accountability between donors and recipients.
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Well-organized country health systems are vital if the MDGs on maternal and child health are to be achieved.
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It is more important to look for ways that aid can be used to strengthen local capacities than to seek proof that aid is working.
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