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Gender Equality and Economic Growth: Is there a Win-Win? To what extent does gender equality contribute to economic growth? And to what extent does the reverse relationship hold true? There are a growing number of studies exploring these relationships, generally using cross-country regression analysis. They are characterised by varying degrees of methodological rigour to take account of the problems associated with econometric analysis at this highly aggregated level, including the problems of reverse causality. Bearing these problems in mind, a review of this literature suggests that the relationship between gender equality and economic growth is an asymmetrical one. The evidence that gender equality, particularly in education and employment, contributes to economic growth is far more consistent and robust than the relationship that economic growth contributes to gender equality in terms of health, wellbeing and rights. From a growth perspective, therefore, the promotion of certain dimensions of gender equality may appear to offer a win-win solution but from a gender equity perspective, there is no guarantee that growth on its own will address critical dimensions of gender equality. Either growth strategies would need to be reformulated to be more inclusive in their impacts or redistributive measures would need to be put in place to ensure that men and women benefit more equally from growth.
Integrating Women in Local Development in Morocco Launched in 2007, SBA's Solidarity Fund has been created to contribute to poverty reduction in countries of the Middle-East and North Africa (MENA) region. Thanks to a targeted aid (financial, organisational and administrative), the objective is that beneficiaries develop an autonomous economic activity and become eventually able to improve their living conditions.
Policy Briefs on Rural Development Action-oriented, synthetic leaflets providing guidance to practitioners on how to make select sectors, technical areas and population groups engines of rural growth, job creation, poverty alleviation, crisis resilience and equitable development.
Checklist for gender mainstreaming in governance programmes Understanding gender issues in governance requires examining the participation and decision-making of women and men in different institutions. Addressing gender gaps in governance entails the adoption of reforms to engender different governing institutions at the various levels to ensure development effectiveness and results.
New Opportunities for African Women leaflet New Opportunities for African Women leaflet from the African Development Bank
African Women in Business Leaflet of the African Women in Business programme
Project Design Manual The manual provides cooperatives and other types of self-help organizations with practical guidance to formulate project proposals that are economically, socially, politically and environmentally viable.
Mainstreaming Gender in Local Economic Development Strategies: A Guide This guide is designed to assist LED practitioners – staff from international organizations, international development agencies and local authorities– in identifying and addressing the sometimes different needs and priorities of women and men, facilitating their full participation at every stage of the LED process, and contributing to gender equality objectives and outcomes. Using this guide will enable practitioners to: understand why gender equality should be pursued at the local level; be aware of the barriers to women’s participation that may be encountered; and identify and implement strategies for addressing gender concerns throughout the LED process. Since gender mainstreaming should be context-specific, the recommendations made must be considered as indicative guidelines rather than recipes for action. Under each section, reference is made to tools, further readings and checklists that can be used in project design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation.
RadioDEL: Equidad de género en el Desarrollo Económico Local Programa de audio (podcast) sobre aspectos económicos de la equidad de género.
ILO Local Development for Decent Work This Local Development and Decent Work (LDDW) Resource Kit was conceived and developed in the framework of the Philippine National Action Plan for Decent Work (2002-2005) that was adopted by the Philippine Government, employers’ organizations and trade unions in 2001.The LDDW Resource Kit is a collection of easy-to-use tools, designed to help development planners and practitioners make better choices, integrating decent work issues into local planning and implementation frameworks. It deals with a wide range of topics concerning local economic growth, job creation and job preservation, improvement of the quality of jobs, making local development benefit the poor, ensuring equal opportunities for all, protection of rights, and promotion of voice, representation and social dialogue in local governance.
Sub-Regional Conference on Local Economic Development
Género y Desarrollo Económico Local ¿Por qué es importante la igualdad de género para el desarrollo económico local? ¿De qué estamos hablando cuando hablamos de enfoque de género? ¿Cuándo y cómo se debe incorporar el enfoque de género en estrategias de desarrollo económico local? La presentación adjunta, aunque breve, explora algunos de estos aspectos.
IFAD's Knowledgebase on Rural Poverty A useful collection of insight documents, initiatives, reports, case studies and news on a rich selection of topics related to rural poverty. Material ranges from climate change to rural finance, desertification, land issues and trade liberalisation, and is tackled from the perspective of a variety of sectors and actors (gender, indigenous peoples...) of the rural economy.
Global Employment Trends for Women 2009 he Global Employment Trends 2009 examined the most current information available in order to assess the impact of the financial crisis and slowdown in world economic growth on jobs and what we could expect from several possible scenarios for the way the situation might evolve in the year ahead. This issue of the Global Employment Trends for Women looks at the gender aspects of this impact, and updates indicators on the situation of women in labour markets around the world.
Decent Work through Local Economic Development, Ghana This employment-focused project in Ghana will replicate a model for public-private dialogue and economic planning at districts level. The project will also contribute to knowledge development and capacity building to make policies addressing informality and poverty more effective. The project office is based in Accra.
The six thematic Working Groups On the first day the Inter-agency Conference on LED, 22 to 24 October 2008, Turin, discussion around LED kicked off with six theme-specific working groups, involving each participant in a group of choice. The selection of topics was aimed at exploring goverance aspects of LED processes, their economic outcomes and their application to a varied field of socio-economic development practices, ranging from Indigenous People's rights to Value Chains upgrading to Public-Private Dialogue, etc.
ILO Database on Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Electronic data base of 200 publications relevant for LED and poverty reduction. With search function, quick downloads and hyperlinks.
Voices of Women Entrepreneurs, Africa The International Labour Organization (ILO) works in partnership with Irish Aid, the Government of Ireland’s programme of assistance to developing countries, to create greater opportunities for women and men to secure decent work and income. The following pages highlight the personal stories of women entrepreneurs across four East African countries - Ethiopia, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia - that have benefited from the ILO-Irish Aid Partnership Programme.
ILO WEDGE Tools Chart The Tools Chart of the WEDGE programme (Women Entrepreneurship Development and Gender Equality) contains brief information about what are the different tools used, which are their objectives, what they do, who are they form, etc.
LED Story El Salvador: Fostering Women Entrepreneurship to Fight Poverty In El Salvador, 80% of women’s jobs are created in enterprises that are owned by women. To develop and implement a model of recognition and empowerment of female entrepreneurship, the Local Economic Development Agency of the Department of Sonsonate has promoted a Centre of Entrepreneurial Services for women, which has made it possible for women to have access to business development services and to be better represented in the local governance.
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