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Home > Publications > Comments to the EBRD’s draft gender strategy

Comments to the EBRD’s draft gender strategy

Comments to the EBRD’s draft gender strategy

Policy comments    |    22 October 2015

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  • Bankwatch comments – download as pdf
  • comments by NECU, Bankwatch member group in Ukraine – download as pdf

In spite of positive elements the EBRD’s Draft Strategy for the Promotion of Gender Equality is unclear or appears to lack consistency in some parts. More importantly, the EBRD’s failure to take a rights-based approach to gender equality has resulted in a limited vision of gender equality of economic opportunity “as a key tool” for promoting efficient market transition. By making the business case for gender equality this approach may ensure stronger ownership of the Strategy by the bank, but it is a missed opportunity for aligning the Strategy with the bank’s unique Sustainable Development mandate. Without a persuasive presentation of the EBRD’s strategic approach to safeguarding gender rights, the draft of the Strategy lacks justification for choosing to promote women while refusing to protect them.

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Institution: EBRD

Theme: Social & economic impacts

Tags: gender

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