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Making a Difference-Gender Equality in Bilateral Development Cooperation

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This booklet seeks to provide answer to these questions.Prepared as a companion to the Sida publication Striking a balance it is concerned with how development cooperation can promote gender equality within a partnership framework. This booklet was prepared as a companion to the Sida publication "Striking a balance" it is concerned with how development cooperation can promote gender equality within a partnership framework. Concrete examples, resources and Sida publications designed to assist people working in development cooperation are highlighted throughout the document. Why is equality between women and men on the development cooperation agenda? What impacts or results are we seeking to achieve? How can agencies such as Sida work constructively in promoting gender equality in partner countries to reduce inequality? How can agencies develop their own capacity for effective action on gender equality? This booklet seeks to provide answers to these questions. Prepared as a companion to the Sida publication, Striking a Balance, it is concerned with how development cooperation can promote gender equality within a partnership framework. It starts, however, with a consideration of why gender equality is an issue and what it means. It is important to keep the what and the why in focus because the how can only be identified effectively once there is a clear vision of the results sought. In considering the how, the document looks first at the initiatives formulated jointly with partners – how issues of gender equality can be brought into dialogue and how different types of cooperation can contribute. The discussion then turns to the demands this places on development cooperation agencies to strengthen their own knowledge, mechanisms, and strategies in order to be responsible partners. Partnerships among actors in different parts of the world working to achieve gender equality provide new opportunities for exploring what gender equality means and how best to achieve it. Equality between women and men has been established as a goal of development in all regions. Advocacy of gender equality through development cooperation aims to ensure that the issue is seriously discussed and solutions are sought – but it does not prejudge the form that gender equality will take or the strategies to achieve it in specific contexts.

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KP.II.ANN.M

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Sweden : Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (SIDA)., 1998

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84 hlm. ; 20 cm.

Language

English

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91 586 7738-0

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KP.II.

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Gender
Gender Equality
partnership framework
to development cooperation can promote gender equa

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"this booklet"

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