Gender Archives

Being serious about WEE requires funders to be serious about transparency

By Alex Farley- Kiwanuka and Sally Paxton | Jan 13, 2023 | Blog

The political support for investing in women’s economic empowerment (WEE) has never been higher. Especially in light of the disparate impacts from COVID-19 on women and girls, there has been a loud chorus of voices on the need to invest in WEE. The critical question, though, is whether the political rhetoric is matched by effective, catalytic investments that are significantly advancing women and girls’ equality and giving them the meaningful ability to participate in, and benefit from, economic opportunities and prosperity?

Roundtable: Improving the transparency and accountability of women’s economic empowerment funding

By Chelsie Loveder | Jan 11, 2023 | Events

In this roundtable event we are pleased to launch our new Improving funding transparency for women’s economic empowerment report. Our presentation synthesises our work from the last two years, extrapolating findings from across the three focus countries to unpack the current state of transparency in funding for women’s economic empowerment. We identify the key data limitations, including our ability to understand the impact of funding, and provide recommendations for funders to improve the reporting and publication of information to these areas. The roundtable, which took place on 15 December 2022, provided an opportunity for specialists in the field to give feedback on our findings and discuss future actions.

The biggest challenge for the 2X Challenge? The urgent need for transparency

By Gary Forster | Dec 5, 2022 | Blog

The 2X Challenge has mobilised $11.4bn for women. But what do we know about these investments and how they’re advancing gender equality? Our team has looked back through the data to see how successful the 2X approach has been so far in channelling funds to women and girls. We found a transparency problem – and we’re calling for it to be fixed as part of the certification process.

Gender equality policy markers: a beginner’s guide

By Jamie Holton, Henry Lewis and Guest | Sep 27, 2021 | Blog

In this blog series, produced jointly by researchers at the Center for Global Development, Publish What You Fund, and Donor Tracker, we aim to:
1.review existing accountability tools related to bilateral, multilateral, and/or philanthropic donor institutions’ funding for gender equality,
2.review how these tools have been studied to date, and
3.propose how we can use and improve upon available tools to push for more and better financing to achieve SDG 5.

Organisations announce plans to make gender financing more transparent

By Sally Paxton and Guest | Aug 17, 2021 | Blog

Originally posted by the Brookings Institution, co-authored by Sally Paxton and George Ingram At our launch event on July 8 for the report, “Making gender financing more transparent”, prominent stakeholders, including key donors for gender equality and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), made important commitments to make international funding towards gender equality […]

Making progress on gender equality: It’s time for more transparency

By Sam Cavenett | Jul 9, 2021 | Events

On July 8 2021, we launched our Making Gender Financing More Transparent report at a webinar hosted by the Brookings Institution. As well as a presentation of our key findings and recommendations, the event featured reflections and insights from experts in data transparency and gender equality.