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The Project “GENDER AND REMITTANCES: CONSTRUCTING A LOCAL GENDER SENSITIVE DEVELOPMENT” financed by UNDP, contains 6 case studies : Dominican Republic-United States, Philippines-Italy, Albany-Greece, Senegal-France, Morocco-Spain, Lesotho-South Africa.
Objectives
The Project’s overall objective is to enhance gender-responsive local development by identifying and promoting options in the utilization of remittances for sustainable livelihoods and the building of social capital in poor rural and semi-urban communities. It will be implemented in six countries, which provide a global representation of UNDP’s Regional Bureaus: Albania, Dominican Republic, Lesotho, Morocco, Philippines and Senegal. The criteria for country selection include: the migratory tradition, the significance of remittances with respect to national GDP, the proportion of women migrants with respect to overall migration, the engagement of the national government and the Diaspora in working together to arrive at policies for the creation of an efficient remittances market, and UNDP’s as well as INSTRAW’s experience of working in the country.
The Project’s strategic aims and priorities are as follows:
- To increase awareness and improve access by women-headed, remittance-recipient households to productive resources while augmenting their assets and strengthening their capacities;
- To provide relevant information and support to local and national governments to identify and formulate policies that will optimize the utilization of remittances for sustainable livelihoods and building social capital;
- To enhance the capacities of key stakeholders to integrate gender into policies, programmes, projects, and other initiatives linking remittances with sustainable livelihoods and building social capital.
Duration: August 2007 - Agosto 2008
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