Aid to Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment

Source: OECD, 2018

Topics: Economic Recovery , Gender, Governance

Achieving strong gender equality outcomes requires adequate, sustained financing in support of gender equality and women’s empowerment. In the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, stakeholders committed to working “for a significant increase in investments to close the gender gap”.1 Official Development Assistance (ODA) allocated by members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) is one important contribution to funding gender equality and women’s rights in developing countries.2 This paper provides an overview of bilateral allocable aid committed by DAC members in 2015-2016. The OECD tracks bilateral aid that targets gender equality and women’s empowerment as either a principal (primary) or significant (secondary) policy objective, using the DAC gender equality policy marker – a qualitative statistical tool to record ODA activities.3