Making Financing for Development Work for Gender Equality: What is needed at Addis and beyond

June 2015

Throughout the Post-2015 process, many governments have successfully championed gender equality within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is now vital that sufficient funding is secured and that, crucially, this is of high quality and raised in a way that promotes gender equality and women’s rights. 

This report discusses the benefits and pitfalls of financing and recommendations are made on the need for strong commitments on sufficient and appropriately high-quality funding, and on recognition of the need to address prevailing gender discrimination in the economy.