Engendering policy coherence for development: gender issues for the global policy agenda in the year 2005

Greater policy coherence is needed to facilitate implementation of UN development framework like Beijing Platform for Action

By: Floro M, Hoppe H
Produced by: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V. (FES) 2005


Using case studies, this paper explores the distributional consequences and gendered outcomes of the current international trade and financial policy regimes. The authors find that currently, coordination of macroeconomic policies, principally trade and financial policies, is dominated by the multilateral trade and financial institutions, namely the World Trade Organisation, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank instead of the UN-led follow-up mechanisms. They argue that this concept of policy coherence is incongruent with internationally agreed commitments, particularly with the Beijing Platform for Action and the MDGs, and governments are being denied the autonomy to formulate and implement people-centred domestic policies and strategies.