WTO has been focusing on women with the aim of building their capacity to trade and using trade as a tool for their … Declaration on Trade and Women's Economic Empowerment which identified Aid for Trade as a key instrument to assist members in … "analysing, designing and implementing more gender-responsive trade policies". Three key facts on women's economic empowerment …

This paper looks at the various trade policies WTO Members have put into place to foster women's economic empowerment … them have reported at least one trade policy targeting women's economic empowerment. Overall, in four years, almost half of … the WTO membership has implemented trade policies in support of women (at least one). Most (about 70%) of the WTO Members2 …

advance women’s economic empowerment (WEE) within their development cooperation and gender equality policies and strategies …

Middle East and North Africa region by examining the effects of aid to Women's Equality Organizations and Institutions on … women's political empowerment, measured by the proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments. We use panel data … planning and reproductive health. The econometric results suggest that official development assistance ... to women' equality …

. Findings: The major findings are: (1) foreign aid, particularly aid targeting women empowerment and gender equal-ity, has … the micro level, gender-targeted aid has significantly improved the share of women in parliament and female secondary …

: unequal gender relations can drive conflict and violence, while women’s active participation in decision-making contributes to …