Gender Action is a US-based organisation holding the world’s largest development banks (also known as International Financial Institutions or IFIs) accountable for gender and climate impacts of their investments across sectors. Gender Action analyses IFI investments and advocates for women’s rights and gender equality. In this work, they support and mentor citizen groups in developing and transition countries in building their capacity to deconstruct IFI documents and pressure their governments to target resources towards women.

Twitter: @GenderAction
Facebook: @genderaction
Email:info@genderaction.org

Publications

Recourse, Indus Consortium, Coastal Livelihood, Environmental Action Network, BRICS Feminist Watch, Gender Action, Big Shift and Don’t Gas Africa (October 2023). ‘Gas does not equal development.’
ActionAid, Bretton Woods Project, Center for Economic and Social Rights, E3G, Eurodad, Femnet, Gender Action, Global Alliance for Tax Justice, Latindadd, Oxfam, Recourse (2021). ‘A Proposed Framework for IMF Engagement in Country-level Surveillance on Macrostructural Issues; Inequality, Gender and Climate Change’.

Elaine Zuckerman

Advocacy and/or policy focus: Government spending: austerity, public services and social protection
Country and region: United States
Email: elainez@genderaction.org
Other affiliations: Promundo, National Council of Women’s Organizations, Caring Economy Campaign, Jubilee USA Network
Publications and resources:
- Schalatek, L., Zuckerman, E. and McCullough, E. (2021) ‘More than an add-on?: Evaluating the integration of gender in Green Climate Fund projects and programs’. Heinrich Böll Stiftung and Gender Action.
- Bercher, T. M. and Zuckerman, E. (2020). ‘Unmet Gender Promises: Making IFI policies and projects deliver on gender equal rights’. Gender Action, NGO Forum on ADB, Oxfam and Recourse.
- Zuckerman, E. (2018). ‘A Guide to Women’s Rights and Environmental Justice Advocacy on International Financial Institutions’. Both ENDS and Gender Action.
- Zuckerman, E. (2014). ‘The IMF & Gender: a long way to go’. Gender Action.
- Dennis, S., Zuckerman, E. (2008). ‘Mapping multilateral development bank’s spending on reproductive health and HIV and AIDS’. Gender & Development, 16:2, 287-30.
- Dennis, S., Zuckerman, E. (2006).’Gender Guide to World Bank and IMF Policy-Based Lending’.
- Vladisavljevic, A., Zuckerman, E. (2004). ‘Structural Adjustment’s Gendered Impacts: The Case of Serbia and Montenegro’. Gender Action.