Client: DFID
Country: Sierra Leone
Year: 2009
In 2009, DFID held preliminary discussions with its main donor partners: the World Bank, the European Commission and the African Development Bank to work together jointly towards strengthening their commitment to gender equality. It was agreed to undertake a gender assessment to define how their organisations and programmes were responding to gender equality and agree future objectives.
A gender assessment of each organisation was a joint donor Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Action Plan to take forward identified activities which will embed gender into the organisations’ working practices.
Following the joint donor Gender Action Plan, the donors decided to set up “Gender Technical Resources for Sierra Leone” in order to strengthen the achievement of four critically important objectives for improving gender outcomes in Sierra Leone:
- reduction in maternal mortality;
- improvement in girls’ primary school completion rates;
- action to address violence against women, and
- an open and frank public debate on Female Genital Mutilation.
Services provided
Triple Line undertook an assessment in two stages, in December 2009 and February 2010 . This study explored the delivery of gender objectives by four organisations in Sierra Leone: the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the EC DFID SL and Irish Aid.
Triple Line was then requested to implement one of the recommendations, i.e. to set up the “Gender Technical Resource for Sierra Leone”.
Achievements
- A joint donor Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Action Plan was developed to embed gender more strongly in each organisation’s working practices.
- The joint donor assessment was welcomed by other donor partners, UN family, implementing partners, civil society and Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL).