CIDA's Policy on Gender Equality
CIDA's Policy on Gender Equality

Author: Canadian International Development Agency

Publisher: Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 68

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Recognizing that gender is an important social division marked by inequality, the Canadian International Development Agency's gender equality policy was revised in 1995 to emphasize the importance of gender equity and women's empowerment. This policy update builds on concepts long supported by the Agency and highlights a number of areas where Agency thinking has evolved. It includes a vision of gender equality for the 21st century, a rationale for the agency's gender equality policy, an outline of the goal and objectives of the policy, and description of the principles on which the policy is based. A table outlines the links between the Agency's policy of poverty reduction, its program priorities, and gender equality. Other sections of the update describe gender analysis as a tool in understanding and promoting gender equality, strategies and activities to support the achievement of gender equality, performance assessment of policy objectives, and practices to promote gender equality.

CIDA's Policy on Women in Development and Gender Equity
CIDA's Policy on Women in Development and Gender Equity

Author: Canadian International Development Agency

Publisher: Hull, Quebec : Canadian International Development Agency

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 28

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The goal of CIDA's policy on women in development and gender equity is the full participation of women as equal partners in the sustainable development of their societies. This document examines the policy and looks at the rationale for CIDA's policy, the policy framework, actions to increase women's participation, mechanisms and strategies, and gender analysis guidelines.

Bringing Gender Back Into Canada's Engagement in Fragile States
Bringing Gender Back Into Canada's Engagement in Fragile States

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Total Pages: 0

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5 Tools and tips from the UN and the DAC In addition to the commitments CIDA has made to GE in its 1999 Policy on Gender Equality and other tools, the GoC has made commitments to enhancing GE in development programming through the United Nations and the OECD DAC. [...] CIDA's gender equality policies and frameworks, and the insights and guidelines developed by the UN and the DAC provide helpful tools for integrating GE into policy development, programming and learning in fragile states. [...] • CIDA and other DAC members have acknowledged the importance of engaging stakeholders concerned with GE at key moments in the design, implementation and assessment stages of development programming in fragile states and building the capacity of agents and mechanisms of change at the local, national, regional and international levels. [...] CIDA can start by working to develop a consensus among the DAC Fragile States Group, and other DAC members and development partners of the gender dimensions of state fragility and the importance of promoting GE in policy and programming in fragile states. [...] The tendency to revert to "woman as victim" or "woman as mother" models of gender relations may also undermine the work to date of development and other actors to promote the human rights of women and girls, to secure their access to and control over resources and to support their role as decision-makers.

Equality Governance via Policy Analysis?
Equality Governance via Policy Analysis?

Author: Arn T. Sauer

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2018-11-30

Total Pages: 569

ISBN-13: 3839443768

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Gender impact assessment has been both celebrated as a beacon of hope for the cause of gender equality and criticised as being ineffectual. More than 20 years of gender mainstreaming have demonstrated that equality governance with and through impact assessment is an intersectional and still evolving process. Arn T. Sauer's study examines the instruments of gendered policy analysis and the conditions under which they are being used by the Canadian federal government and the European Commission. Interviews with experts from public administration and instrument designers as well as document analyses reveal benefits and challenges and show that the success of equality governance depends upon whether knowledge about gendered policy and appropriate administrative practices are embedded, embodied and entrenched in public administration.

Rethinking Canadian Aid
Rethinking Canadian Aid

Author: Stephen brown

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 2016-06-09

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 0776623656

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This book contributes to a “rethinking” Canadian aid at four different levels. First, it undertakes a collective rethinking of the foundations of Canadian aid, including both its normative underpinnings – an altruistic desire to reduce poverty and inequality and achieve greater social justice, a means to achieve commercial or strategic self-interest, or a projection of Canadian values and prestige onto the world stage – and aid’s past record. Second, it analyzes how the Canadian government government is itself rethinking Canadian aid, including greater focus on the Americas and specific themes (such as mothers, children and youth, and fragile states) and countries, increased involvement of the private sector (particularly Canadian mining companies), and greater emphasis on self-interest. Third, it rethinks where Canadian aid is or should be heading, including recommendations for improved development assistance. Fourth, it highlights how serious rethinking is required on aid itself: the concept, its relation to non-aid policies that affect development in the Global South, and the rise of new providers of development assistance, especially “emerging economies”. Each of these novel challenges holds important implications for Canada, for its development policies and for its declining influence in the morphing global aid regime.