How Can Aid Be Gender Responsive in the Context of the New Aid Modalities? Lessons From Gender Responsive Budgeting Initiatives

Abstract

This document presents the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (PD)(2005) demonstrate a globalcommitment to reform aid managementmodalities, and improve the quality ofaid so that it contributes to the achievementof collectively agreed developmentgoals, such as the MillenniumDevelopment Goals (MDGs). In thiscontext, gender equality advocates,human rights activists, and environmentalgroups have demanded increasedaction to ensure that aid reform translatesinto rights-based, sustainable, andequitable development