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ILO. A Profile of ILO Multi-bilateral Donors' Policies on Gender Equality. Geneve: CODEV/GENDER. September 2006

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Introduction

Gender equality is fundamental to achieving the ILO Decent Work Agenda which includes creating opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity. The ILO technical cooperation programme, therefore, promotes gender mainstreaming in all technical cooperation activities as well as in agreements signed with multi-bilateral donors.

The ILO technical cooperation programme is largely funded through voluntary contributions from external donors. Most of these donors have specific gender equality policies and criteria to be taken into account in the planning, design and delivery of funding agreements with UN Agencies, including the ILO.

This publication gives an overview of selected ILO multi-bilateral donors’ approach to gender equality in a development framework. The publication presents the donors’ priorities for promoting gender equality and the strategies adopted in this respect. Furthermore, the publication contains references to further information on the individual donors’ gender equality policies and lists relevant literature and contact details.

The publication complements the ILO’s more general Donor Profiles, which contain detailed background information on individual donors. These profiles can be accessed on the Department of Partnerships and Development Cooperation’s (PARDEV) web-page.
The following pages describe a number of multi-bilateral donors with whom the ILO has maintained ongoing collaboration for several years. The ILO also receives funding from other donors, including development banks, the UN system and non-state actors. Some of these partners have progressive gender equality policies. More information on these donors can be obtained from PARDEV.

Knowing donors’ gender policies may be useful when deciding which specific equality issues to highlight in project proposals that are to be submitted to specific donors. This is in line with the ILO’s own strategy of ensuring that gender is mainstreamed into all technical cooperation activities promoting Decent Work. Moreover, being aware of donors’ gender policies and criteria can help expose unexplored links to sources of funding both locally and centrally.

The present publication is a revised and updated version of A Compendium of ILO Multi-bilateral Donors’ Policies related to Promoting Gender Equality in the World of Work which was published by the ILO in 2005.

The following donor profiles have been compiled by the Bureau for Gender Equality in collaboration with the Department of Partnerships and Development Cooperation.

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