Civil society and the new aid modalities: addressing the challenges for gender equality, democracy and participation

The impacts of the Paris Declaration on gender equality, democracy and participation

By: Williams M
Published by: International Gender and Trade Network, 2007
Via: Eldis

This paper looks at the conceptual and operational framework of the new aid architecture that is nested under the Paris Declaration and then examines the specific new modalities of aid, in the context of modalities of development, to see what opportunities, challenges and constraints they pose for the issues that are critical to gender equality and women’s empowerment.

The author finds that civil society must be mindful of the links between aid reform, trade liberalisation/trade reform and emerging formalised coherence between the International Financial Institutions, and the World Trade Organisation. They must seek to understand how the different modalities from different spheres such as, for example, aid for trade, impact on and reinforces the new aid modalities of the Paris Declaration.

(http://www.igtn.org/pdfs//The%20paris%20declaration,%20development,%20democracy
%20and%20gender-2007.pdf)