Women 2000, Beijing Plus Five; The USAID Commitment

摘要

This report surveys USAIDs endeavors to achieve the goals of the Platform of Action. It also assesses the Agencys progress and identifies the challenges that remain unmet. The 2000 PICW report covers the activities of the entire U.S. federal government according to each of the Platforms 12 critical areas. This USAID report collapses the 12 areas of concern used in the Platform for Action into six categories: the girl child, basic human rights for women and girls, health and education, economic growth and poverty reduction, and womens political participation. The activities this report describes are meant to illustrate the scope and variety of USAIDs investment in improving the status of women in developing countries and are by no means a comprehensive catalogue of Agency undertakings. These efforts have sometimes met with singular success, although progress in some sectors is noticeably more difficult. This report therefore concludes with a final section that offers a critical review of the challenges to the more effective integration of gender in development programming that lie ahead.