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AID IN SUPPORT OF GENDER EQUALITY

AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT

AID IN SUPPORT OF GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT

The following tables and charts (2004-2005) summarize statistics on aid focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment extended by each DAC member. Information shown includes the gender equality policy marker coverage, the top ten recipients and a sector breakdown of aid focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Charts are not shown for countries which do not report on the gender equality policy marker, or for which the marker coverage over 2004-2005 is too low [France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Spain, Switzerland, United States] or for which the gender equality marker reporting is problematic [Italy]. Guidance for the interpretation of the charts: The first element to take into account when analyzing the data for one country or when comparing data between countries is the COVERAGE RATIO, i.e. the proportion of aid which is screened. A high percentage of gender equality focused aid ALONE does not mean that aid is well aligned with the gender equality policy objective, such a conclusion would only be valid for a donor with 100% coverage. When comparing data between donors, both cover-age ratio and % of aid focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment have to be considered. (A number of members do not screen contributions that are by nature likely to fall under the “not targeted” category, e.g. imputed student costs. Therefore, a high amount in the category “not screened” generally increases the percentage of gender equality focused aid significantly.)

June 2007

Statistics based on DAC Members’ reporting on the Gender Equality Policy Marker, 2004 - 2005

Creditor Reporting System database

OECD-DAC Secretariat (http://www.oecd.org/dac/stats/crs) OECD-DAC Secretariat (http://www.oecd.org/dac/stats/crs)

THE GENDER EQUALITY POLICY MARKER

DEFINITION

An activity should be classified as gender equality focused (score Principal or Significant) if:

It is intended to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment or reduce discrimination and inequalities based on sex.

CRITERIA FOR ELIGIBILITY Gender equality is explicitly promoted in activity documentation through specific measures which:

a) Reduce social, economic or political power inequalities between women and men, girls and boys, ensure that women benefit equally with men from the activity, or compensate for past discrimination; or

b) Develop or strengthen gender equality or anti-discrimination policies, legislation or institutions.

This approach requires analysing gender inequalities either separately or as an integral part of agencies’ standard procedures.

EXAMPLES OF TYPICAL ACTIVITIES

Examples of activities that could be marked as principal objective:

-- legal literacy for women and girls; -- male networks against gender violence; -- a social safety net project which focuses specifically on assisting women and girls as a particularly disadvantaged group in a society; -- capacity building of Ministries of Finance and Planning to incorporate gender equality objectives in national poverty reduction or comparable strategies.

Such activities can target women specifically, men specifically or both women and men. Examples of activities that could be marked as significant objective:

-- activity which has as its principal objective to provide drinking water to a district or community while at the same time ensuring that women and girls have safe and easy access to the facilities; -- a social safety net project which focuses on the community as a whole and ensures that women and girls benefit equally with men and boys.

N.B. Support to women’s equality organisations and institutions (CRS sector code 15164) scores, by definition, principal objective.

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Australia

2004 2005

Principal objective 73 49Significant objective 541 379Not targeted 346 622Not screened 0 0

Total sector-allocable aid 960 1050Gender equality focused aid (2) 64% 41%

Memo:Total non sector-allocable aid 247 381Aid to Women's equality (3) 0 0

Total aid Total sector allocable aid

Gender equality focused aid (2)

Papua New Guinea 281 280 71%Indonesia 144 95 55%Philippines 92 92 93%Solomon Islands 89 86 77%Sri Lanka 54 7 69%Vanuatu 33 33 78%Iraq 33 30 68%East Timor 30 29 33%Viet Nam 30 28 14%Cambodia 28 12 27%

Papua New Guinea 197 71%Philippines 85 93%Solomon Islands 66 77%Indonesia 52 55%Vanuatu 26 78%Iraq 21 68%East Timor 10 33%Afghanistan 6 75%Bangladesh 5 61%Sri Lanka 5 69%

Source: CRS Aid Activity database (Creditor Reporting System) at www.oecd.org/dac/stats/idsonline

Gender equality focus in aid to top ten recipientsUSD million

Gender equality focus of sectorsUSD million

Top ten recipients of gender equality focused aidUSD million

Sectoral components of gender equality focused aidpercentages


(3) Since 2005 flows, the WID sector is replaced by "Support to women's equality organisations and institutions", within the "Other social infrastructure" category.

All activities have been screened against the gender marker: the gender coverage ratio is thus 100%.

(1) DAC Guidelines for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Development Co-operation, 1999(2) % of sector allocable aid. Activities not screened against the gender equality marker have been excluded.

Note: Statistics on gender focus exclude non sector-allocable aid since several members do not apply the gender marker on these forms of aid. This category includes programme assistance, debt relief and emergency aid.

Sector breakdown Top ten recipients

Gender equality focus of donor's aid programmeUSD million

Aid in Support of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment2004-2005

Amounts are average commitments for 2004-2005, unless otherwise shown

that the activity was screened for promoting gender equality, but was found to not be targeted to it.

Investment in gender equality and women’s empowerment is vital for improving economic, social and political conditions in developing countries within the framework of sustainable development. A focus on gender equality and women’s empowerment in development co-operation is a means to enhance thetotal effectiveness of aid (1).An activity can target gender equality as a "principal objective" or "significant objective". Principal means gender equality was an explicit objective of the activity and fundemental in its design. Significant means gender equality was an important, but secondary, objective of the activity. Not targeted means

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Total sectorallocable aid

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Education Health and Population

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Related Millennium Development Goals

Promote gender equality and empower women (Goal 3)

Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and

at all levels by 2015 (Target 4)

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Austria

2004 2005






Iraq 407 1 10%FRY-Serbia&Montenegro 31 23 12%Cameroon 28 0 2%Madagascar 28 0 0%China 23 22 0%Turkey 21 18 0%Bosnia-Herzegovina 19 18 5%Ghana 13 0 0%Nicaragua 12 11 92%Sri Lanka 12 2 1%

Nicaragua 10 92%Uganda 5 77%Ethiopia 4 70%Mozambique 4 89%Burkina Faso 4 81%Palestinian adm.areas 4 73%FRY-Serbia&Montenegro 3 12%Guatemala 2 36%El Salvador 1 97%Tanzania 1 55%

















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Belgium

2004 2005Principal objective 33 43Significant objective 148 237Not targeted 154 158Not screened 378 368





Congo Dem.Rep. (Zaire) 255 99 80%Iraq 127 3 100%Nigeria 72 1 55%Burundi 30 12 76%Rwanda 29 27 57%Niger 26 24 99%Palestinian adm.areas 20 14 95%Cameroon 18 9 70%Congo - Rep. 18 7 13%Burkina Faso 17 16 87%

Congo Dem.Rep. (Zaire) 40 80%Niger 16 99%Mali 13 94%Palestinian adm.areas 11 95%Afghanistan 11 100%Benin 7 89%Peru 7 75%Mozambique 6 79%Rwanda 6 57%Senegal 5 93%








Not all activities have been screened against the gender marker: the coverage ratio for sector-allocable activities is 51%.









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Canada

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Iraq 237 41 87%Afghanistan 121 92 18%Ghana 114 111 31%Haiti 92 74 35%Ethiopia 81 28 13%Mozambique 74 74 86%Bangladesh 56 55 73%Viet Nam 51 43 48%Tanzania 44 44 73%Indonesia 41 25 47%

Mozambique 63 86%Bangladesh 40 73%Iraq 36 87%Ghana 34 31%Tanzania 32 73%Haiti 25 35%China 24 65%Viet Nam 21 48%Pakistan 20 78%Bosnia-Herzegovina 18 76%

















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Denmark

2004 2005Principal objective 54 47Significant objective 240 283Not targeted 854 961Not screened 48 0





Tanzania 145 123 1%Viet Nam 110 81 23%Benin 106 98 44%Burkina Faso 93 80 30%Uganda 86 83 72%Nicaragua 83 83 20%Bangladesh 81 81 1%Bolivia 58 56 90%Mozambique 54 37 4%Zambia 48 46 24%

Uganda 59 72%Bolivia 49 90%Benin 43 44%Kenya 26 55%Burkina Faso 24 30%Viet Nam 18 23%Nepal 17 89%Nicaragua 16 20%Zambia 11 24%Sudan 10 55%

















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European Commission

2004 2005






FRY-Serbia&Montenegro 434 372 4%Turkey 339 332 1%Afghanistan 294 207 8%Nigeria 232 232 32%Congo Dem.Rep. (Zaire) 210 161 31%Uganda 197 105 2%Ethiopia 196 61 0%Sudan 188 37 1%Morocco 186 186 0%Mozambique 182 103 24%

Egypt 90 52%South Africa 68 39%Nigeria 64 32%Mali 57 34%Congo Dem.Rep. (Zaire) 50 31%Malawi 41 45%Viet Nam 34 74%Namibia 33 82%Papua New Guinea 31 89%Ghana 30 34%

















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Finland

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Tanzania 40 23 18%Mozambique 33 26 80%Viet Nam 29 26 76%Kenya 28 25 42%Nicaragua 23 18 83%Afghanistan 21 11 65%Zambia 21 20 84%China 20 19 3%Sri Lanka 18 17 0%Sudan 16 1 31%

Mozambique 21 80%Viet Nam 20 76%Zambia 17 84%Nicaragua 15 83%Kenya 11 42%Nepal 10 83%Afghanistan 7 65%South Africa 5 45%Tanzania 4 18%Palestinian adm.areas 4 49%

















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Germany

2004 2005






Iraq 1014 11 19%Nigeria 608 33 66%China 331 327 36%India 267 259 35%Nicaragua 253 28 70%Indonesia 231 191 67%Cameroon 176 58 61%Ghana 166 24 77%Egypt 135 110 23%Morocco 130 130 9%

Indonesia 114 67%India 80 35%China 73 36%Palestinian adm.areas 50 95%Brazil 47 52%Uganda 34 76%Afghanistan 33 55%Kenya 32 51%Albania 31 56%South Africa 30 36%

















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Greece

2004 2005






FRY-Serbia&Montenegro 31 29 6%Albania 23 21 40%Afghanistan 13 13 2%Iraq 6 3 37%Turkey 5 5 57%Bosnia-Herzegovina 4 4 10%Palestinian adm.areas 4 2 51%Georgia 3 3 35%Syria 3 3 53%FYROM-Macedonia 3 3 22%

Albania 8 40%Turkey 3 57%FRY-Serbia&Montenegro 2 6%Egypt 2 72%Syria 2 53%Iraq 1 37%Moldova 1 59%Georgia 1 35%Palestinian adm.areas 1 51%Jordan 1 54%

















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Japan

2004 2005






Iraq 2097 8 0%Indonesia 1530 1176 1%India 1223 1222 36%China 1171 1043 1%Viet Nam 876 849 2%Ghana 541 32 0%Turkey 463 462 0%Thailand 445 441 0%Malaysia 416 414 0%Zambia 393 32 43%

India 437 36%Pakistan 65 41%Bangladesh 58 58%Sri Lanka 54 34%Morocco 41 40%Cambodia 24 18%Viet Nam 20 2%Zambia 13 43%China 13 1%East Timor 13 47%

















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Netherlands

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Indonesia 216 107 16%Sudan 199 118 3%Bangladesh 96 87 67%Mozambique 85 35 15%Afghanistan 78 31 0%South Africa 77 77 31%Ghana 74 15 48%Burkina Faso 69 24 20%Bolivia 68 65 65%Tanzania 65 48 46%

Bangladesh 58 67%Bolivia 42 65%Yemen 33 79%South Africa 23 31%Tanzania 22 46%Indonesia 17 16%Guatemala 10 26%Mali 9 26%Ethiopia 8 22%Ghana 7 48%

















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New Zealand

2004 2005






Niue 19 6 58%Solomon Islands 18 17 87%Indonesia 13 6 79%Tokelau 12 1 13%Papua New Guinea 11 8 88%Western Samoa 10 10 80%Afghanistan 10 3 85%Cook Islands 9 8 70%Tonga 7 6 58%Fiji 6 5 89%

Solomon Islands 15 87%Western Samoa 8 80%Papua New Guinea 7 88%Cook Islands 5 70%Fiji 5 89%Indonesia 4 79%Tonga 4 58%Viet Nam 4 84%Niue 4 58%Vanuatu 3 67%

















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Norway

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Sudan 112 87 5%Tanzania 81 81 18%Malawi 72 36 83%Afghanistan 63 19 32%Palestinian adm.areas 58 43 13%Mozambique 56 41 63%Zambia 54 41 9%Uganda 49 26 40%Sri Lanka 48 39 10%Pakistan 44 7 74%

Malawi 30 83%Nepal 29 83%Mozambique 26 63%Tanzania 15 18%Madagascar 14 73%Angola 12 73%Bangladesh 11 53%Uganda 10 40%Guatemala 8 76%South Africa 8 43%

















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Portugal

2004 2005






Angola 368 17 2%Cape Verde 64 63 0%Morocco 63 0 0%East Timor 31 28 0%Bosnia-Herzegovina 28 28 0%Mozambique 21 16 7%Guinea-Bissau 13 11 2%Sao Tome & Principe 12 11 0%Iraq 9 1 0%FRY-Serbia&Montenegro 4 4 0%

Mozambique 1 7%Angola 0 2%Guinea-Bissau 0 2%Afghanistan 0 0%Albania 0 0%Algeria 0 0%Anguilla 0 0%Antigua & Barbuda 0 0%Argentina 0 0%Armenia 0 0%

















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Sweden

2004 2005






Bangladesh 72 70 100%Ethiopia 67 46 84%Nicaragua 61 48 100%Tanzania 59 58 86%Kenya 56 50 99%Bosnia-Herzegovina 53 52 65%Viet Nam 49 48 97%Mozambique 49 19 69%Sri Lanka 46 41 22%Sudan 45 20 98%

Bangladesh 70 100%Tanzania 50 86%Kenya 49 99%Nicaragua 48 100%Viet Nam 47 97%Ethiopia 38 84%Bosnia-Herzegovina 34 65%FRY-Serbia&Montenegro 26 88%Bolivia 25 94%Uganda 24 98%

















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United Kingdom

2004 2005






Nigeria 1254 222 57%Iraq 845 153 4%India 772 689 59%Bangladesh 362 313 62%Zambia 332 74 14%Afghanistan 246 95 8%Uganda 222 30 71%Sudan 216 116 6%Congo Dem.Rep. (Zaire) 210 48 64%Tanzania 201 58 15%

India 326 59%Bangladesh 185 62%Nigeria 120 57%Nepal 78 79%China 47 77%Ethiopia 45 68%Yemen 33 98%Pakistan 31 56%Congo Dem.Rep. (Zaire) 27 64%Zimbabwe 25 86%

















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