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Why Does Gender Matter for the World Bank? |
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530,000 women die from childbirth every year |
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Unequal voice and participation in matters that affect development |
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More girls are out of school despite significant evidence on the positive externalities of educating women |
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To be productive, access to assets and resources is critical, yet women’s access to, and use of, resources and assets is relatively limited |
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Click and drag the timeline below to browse events that have led to the evolution of the World Bank's approach to gender. Click on an item for more information. You can also browse the timeline via the links below.
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Establish a clear results and accountability framework that supports gender policy. A clear results and accountability framework helps build analytical foundations for policy measures that support a country's gender and development agenda... MORE
 Also see: Examples of Country Assistance Strategies with satisfactory treatment of gender issues |
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Mainstream gender needs at the country level and ensure client-country ownership. To achieve effective results in supporting gender mainstreaming in a country, it is critical to ensure client demand and to align project and policy objectives with that demand, while keeping such objectives realistic... MORE
Also see: Securing Client Country Ownership to Address Gender Equality |
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Fund incentives for effective gender-related action in client countries. Strengthening the collection, analysis, and dissemination of gender-disaggregated and gender-relevant data is important for designing gender-aware and -equitable policies and projects... MORE
Also see: Cases of Successful Implementation of Gender-Related Data Gathering |
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Establish clear management accountability for gender mainstreaming. Management needs to be accountable for the development and implementation of a system that monitors the extent to which gender-related concerns are adequately addressed in projects and policies, including effective reporting mechanisms... MORE
Also see: World Bank President's call for gender commitments. |
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