Small change or real change? : Commonwealth perspectives on financing gender equality / [edited by Tina Johnson].

Statement of responsibility from title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Challenges to financing gender equality : a macroeconomic view / Mariama Williams -- Aid effectiveness and gender-responsive budgets / Debbie Budlender -- Development, aid effectiveness and gender equality / Sarojini Ganju Thakur -- Micro-finance and innovative financing for gender equality : approaches, challenges and strategies / Ramesh S. Arunachalam -- Gender and trade : impacts and implications for financial resources for gender equality / Mariama Williams -- Strengthening the connection between gender and growth / Growth Team, Policy and Research Division, DFID -- Gender equality as smart economics : a World Bank group gender action plan / World Bank -- Promoting democracy, peace and development in the Commonwealth through investing in gender equality / Khabele Matlosa -- Financing for gender equality : post-conflict reconstruction and peace-building / Sherrill Whittington -- Spreading the gains of globalisation : linking women with global markets / Marilyn Carr -- Financing HIV and AIDS interventions : implications for gender equality / Robert Carr -- Female employment in agriculture : global challenges and global responses / Stephanie Barrientos -- The role of national women's machineries in financing gender equality / Auxilia Ponga.

"It is now generally recognised that gender equality is essential for sustained economic growth and for democracy, peace and security. Small Change or Real Change? Commonwealth Perspectives on Financing Gender Equality presents key thinking from experts around the world on a topic that is currently of great international concern: how to ensure that sufficient financial resources are available - both through the new aid modalities and from domestic sources - to effect the necessary changes to make gender equality a reality. The chapters cover the full range of issues around financing gender equality, including implementation of the aid agenda, the implications for gender equality of financing HIV and AIDS interventions, the impacts of trade policies on key sources of financing and women's need for equal access to affordable finance. Of particular concern is the importance of tracking the gender impact of aid resources (including post-conflict aid) through mechanisms such as gender-responsive budgets and aid effectiveness approaches. The contributors, all of them development practitioners though from diverse backgrounds, share one common goal: to influence governments, bilateral and multilateral organisations to scale up their commitments to financing gender equality and thus not only make a real difference to the lives of women around the world but also reduce poverty and promote sustainable development."--Page 4 of cover.