Development Cooperation and Women's Rights Series

This series of primers shares information, analysis and proposals needed to support women’s right activists in contributing to a comprehensive, balanced, and inclusive approach to reforming aid so that it reaches the people who need it most.

Conditionalities Undermine the Right to Development: An analysis based on a women’s and human rights perspective

This publication provides an analysis of the position against against economic policy conditionalities based on a women's and human rights perspective.

Development Cooperation Beyond the Aid Effectiveness Paradigm: A women’s rights perspective

This discussion paper unpacks how women’s rights advocates envision a development cooperation framework that takes into account gender equality and women's rights and that is truly inclusive, sustainable and just.

Key Demands to the Fourth Forum on Aid Effectiveness

Feminists, gender equality and women’s rights activists and organizations reaffirmed their vision for transformation and offered concrete recommendations for improving the international development cooperation architecture in a set of key demands.

 

The Aid and Development Effectiveness Process from a Women's Rights Perspective: A Snapshot

This document was prepared as a guide to the sessions relating to development cooperation at the 12th AWID International Forum in Istanbul, Turkey, 19-22 April 2012.

Getting at the Roots: Reintegrating human rights and gender equality in the post-2015 development agenda

This paper aims to contribute to debates on addressing root causes of inequalities, including gender inequality, within the post-2015 development process.

Strengthening Monitoring and Evaluation for Women’s Rights: 12 Insights for Donors

These twelve insights into how to develop more effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems are important for those engaged in women’s rights and empowerment work at the grassroots, national, regional, and global level.

The Power of Investing in Women’s Rights and Empowerment: A Mid-term Summary of the MDG3 Fund and its Gender Equality Outcomes

This brief shares an assessment of the Dutch MDG3 Fund, highlighting the mid-term outcomes of grants made to a sample of women's organizations worldwide.

Spotlight Articles: Young Women's Leadership and Feminist Movements and Organizations

These articles highlight key issues and points for discussion for young women involved in feminist movements and organizations.

Global Report on the Situation of Women Human Rights Defenders

The WHRD International Coalition has published the Global Report on the Situation of WHRDs to advance the recognition of WHRDs, the violence and violations of rights that they face, and the contexts that enable these violations.