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Donors thinking big: beyond gender equality funds

The case for investing in southern women’s rights organisations is firmly established, but to create sustainability, resilience and long-term change donors need to invest in the infrastructure of the organisations and movements.

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Members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) provided $35.5 billion in aid to gender equality in 2014; this was an all-time high. Around 28% − nearly $10 billion − went to civil society organisations (csos).

The vast majority of this aid supported international non-governmental organisations (ingos) or civil society organisations based in the donor country. In 2014, only 8% of gender focused aid to civil society went directly to csos in developing countries.