This policy brief focuses on how to ensure that a gender lens is well-integrated through response, recovery, and prevention efforts to COVID-19 in development co-operation. In the context of COVID-19, how can OECD countries and other development providers improve the quality of their policies...

Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls are prerequisites to the realisation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This Guidance is a practical handbook for development partners supporting those global ambitions. Designed around the programme cycle and beyond, it...

This report explores the educational performance and attitudes of males and females during childhood and adolescence. It opens with a general summary of gender differences measured outside of the PISA assessment programme and then considers the knowledge gained about gender-related issues from...

When you think of someone who is an engineer, do you imagine a man or a woman wearing a hardhat? How about when you imagine a teacher standing in front of a class of schoolchildren? If you answer “a man” to the first question, and “a woman” to the second, there’s probably a reason. And...

In its States of Fragility 2022 report, the OECD aims to add a sixth dimension to its multidimensional fragility framework – the human dimension – to measure factors affecting the realisation of people’s wellbeing and potential. This innovation casts new light on the determining role that...

This paper presents the results from the 2020 round of the OECD Blended Finance Funds and Facilities Survey, which for the first time included questions on cross-cutting development topics – including gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. The 198 survey respondents...