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States of Fragility 2015 Report Shows Missing
Gender Targeted Aid
OECD Report Says Aid Must Be Smarter to Fragile States to Stop Conflict & End Poverty
More focus needed on security and policing in fragile
states, with nearly two-thirds likely to miss the millennium development goal
of halving poverty by 2015
Report Quote: “Gender equality is not yet integrated
in all areas of aid activities in fragile states. Nor is gender equality
usually the primary object of DAC (OECD Development Assistance Committee) members’
aid activities in fragile states, according to the available data. Most
Official Development Assistance (ODA) to gender equality areas in fragile
situations goes to education and health; financing gaps remain in the peace and
security sector and in the economic and productive sectors. Integrating a
gender perspective in the peace and security sector does produce better peace
building and state building outcomes. It makes state institutions more
inclusive, enhances state legitimacy, fosters justice and security, and helps
unlock women’s potential to contribute to economic recovery after conflict.
Donors could also further invest in dedicated gender equality programmes.”
Iraq and Afghanistan accounted for 22% of official
development assistance sent to fragile states and economies … searching through
rubbish for recyclable items, Najaf, central Iraq. Photograph: Haidar
Hamdani/Getty
Despite sending more than half their aid to countries
marked by conflict, donor states have not been successful in promoting peace
and building institutions, and this failure risks torpedoing efforts to lift
the world’s most vulnerable people out of poverty, according to a new report.
States of Fragility 2015, which has been produced
by New York University’s Center
on International Cooperation (CIC) for the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD), says many countries will not be
able to eradicate poverty if concentrated efforts to address fragility are not
made now.
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