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EC/UN Partnership on Gender
Equality for Development and Peace
Implementation of the
Aid Effectiveness Agenda from a
Gender equality Perspective
Lessons from CSO
Engagement
Network of Ethiopian Women’s Associations
(NEWA)
Presented to the CSW
New York, 29 February 2008
Ethiopia: The economy and gender:
a backgrounder
1. The Ethiopian Economy has recently been
growing at over 10% annually and this provides
opportunities to integrate aid with a strong
economy to finance development within
2. There is already a strong partnership between the
government and donors within the PASDEP framework
where GE is understood as both a cross-cutting issue and
as a specific sector.
3. Despite the challenges, the constitution recognises gender
as a human right issue, a poverty reduction and a
development goal in its own right.
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The aid landscape
The present aid modalities are
• Project support
• General budget support (GBS)
• Protection of Basic Services (PBS)
• SWAPs: Government and donors,
including the AfDB, WHO, DFID, Italy,
Sweden, the Netherlands and the World
Bank have been working toward
establishing SWAps in health, education
and roads, especially in the areas of road
construction and primary school
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enrolment. A SWAp in the Public Sector
Women’s status in Ethiopia
Indicator
Maternal mortality rate
Delivery attended by skilled attendants
Status
Remarks
673/100,000
live births
9%
Prenatal care coverage
30 %
Contraceptive prevalence rate
15 %
Women & girls affected by FGM
73 %
primary school gross enrolment ratio
71.5 %
Male= 88 %
Secondary school gross enrolment ratio
21.6 %
Male=36.6 %
27 %
National=56
Literacy rate
% women with access to agri extension services
% of women out of the total landholders
9%
18.6 %
% of women permanent employees in civil service
32 %
% of women in decision making
21 %
Pregnant women with access to PMTCT
0.56
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Critical areas for gender equality
• Poverty and economic empowerment of
women and girls
• Education and training of women and girls
• Reproductive rights, health and HIV/AIDS
• Human rights and violence against women
and girls
• Empowering women in decision making
• Women and the environment
• Institutional mechanisms for the
advancement of women
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National initiatives
addressing GE and
women’s empowerment
• the 1995 constitution that stopped
discriminatory laws and practices
• revision of family and criminal laws
underaken in line with the constitution and
to address violence issues
• A national gender situation analysis
undertaken in preparation of a national
plan
• Placing GE issues as one of the national 6
PASDEP and NAP-GE
• PASDEP takes ‘Unleashing the potential of
Ethiopian women’ as one of its focus in the
eight pillars of the strategy
• NAP-GE based on the situation analysis
aims at participation of women in social
and political processes of the country by
focusing in seven critical areas of the
Beijing
• NAP-GE taken as part of the PASDEP
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The NAP-GE
• policies and programmes
• Sensitize development planners and to
hold them accountable for gender
equality Engenders the PASDEP and all
other government
• Monitor stakeholders’ commitment to
GE
• Promote gender budgeting
• Build the capacity of the civil service
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Protection of Basic Services
(PBS)
The PBS Project is an initiative designed by the donor
community in cooperation with the Government of Ethiopia
and various stakeholders in and outside the country. It is
designed to expand and sustain the basic human
development programmes that are almost exclusively
provided by the GoE. The package comprises of
1. Funds to protect basic services
2. Provision of health commodities
3. Improved developmental and financial transparency and
4. Citizen participation in SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY
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Planning for gender
equality
• A large part of total expenditures are allocated to education,
roads, agriculture and food security, health and water.
• Funding for education, health, water supply, and food security has
experienced a 32%, 4%, 94% and 36% respectively increase since
2004,
• Defence spending declined from over 13% of GDP
• The Government has prepared a GRB guideline to begin
tracking budget allocations toward programmes that target
gender equality. The Government is making efforts to pilot
performance based budgeting, whereby information on
outcomes influences budget allocations.
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Budgeting for GE and WE
• There is a political commitment towards
GRB in the country.
• budget tracking initiatives lead by civil
society (such as NEWA and PANE) in
relation to revenue raising; expenditures
towards GE priorities are predictable
• NEWA is involved in budget policy making
within the MoFED and MoWA, with
gender units in sectoral ministries and
agencies that are involved in the
preparation of draft budgets.
• A Gender Budget Analysis Initiative
Report was produced with the
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CSO SAc Monitoring
(CRC) and (CSC)
• CRCs are participatory surveys that provide
QUANTITATIVE feedback on user perceptions on quality,
adequacy and efficiency of public services to exact public
accountability through the extensive media coverage and
civil society advocacy that accompanies the process.
• CSCs are QUALITATIVE monitoring tools that are used
for local level monitoring and performance evaluation of
services, projects and district administrative units by the
communities themselves.
• A CRC undertaken by PANE involving different
organization to evaluate the implementation of the
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poverty reduction policies.
NEWA’s role
• popularizing the PASDEP, NAPGE and the MDGs to women and
women organizations
• provides inputs from gender
perspective on the
implementation status as well
as in its planning stages of
PASDEP.
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NEWA’s role
• NEWA is participating in monitoring the
effective implementation of PASDEP
(underway),Prepared M&E tools.
• Provides training on government budget
proceses,gender budgeting and tracking to
women &women groups
• NEWA is participating in monitoring the
effective allocation and utilization of
budget for the implementation of
PASDEP/NAP-GE
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KEY messages
• The GRB guideline in the national budget
should show to how much % of budget is
allocated for GE activities and what
constitutes an engendered budget with
clear indicators, means and sources of
verification
• There is the need for capacity
building in all sectors of planning,
implementation and monitoring of
the NAM
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Key messages (Cont)
• Women machineries,GE advocates in the formulation
and monitoring of action plans as well as GRB should
be strengthened with regard to Ownership and mutual
accountability.
• The PBS Project that is designed to expand and
sustain the basic human development programmes
and that underscores citizen participation in social
accountability could serve as model for gender
responsive aid effectiveness.
• Since this is an area where women lack the necessary
knowlege and capacity there should be adequate
resources to enable women and women organization
to intervene effectively.
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Thank you
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