Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
No country facing high and extreme fragility is on track to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality and empowering all women and girls. Though official development assistance (ODA) to gender equality has increased overall in recent years, it has declined in those countries. Learn more about how organizations and development partners should support women and girls in Afghanistan, Syria and other conflict-affected countries from Mariam Safi and Elke Löbel.
Read more about the OECD's work on gender and development here oecd.org/en/topics/sub-issues/gender-and-development.html
ABOUT THE OECD
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organization established in 1960 that works collaboratively to build better policies for better lives. Our goal is to shape policies that foster prosperity, equality, opportunity and well-being for all. Together with governments, policy makers, policy shapers, and citizens, we work on establishing evidence-based international standards and finding solutions to a range of social, economic and environmental challenges.
improving economic performance and creating jobs to fostering strong education and fighting international tax evasion, we provide a unique forum and knowledge hub for data and analysis, exchange of experiences, best-practice sharing, and advice on public policies and international standard-setting.
To learn more about the OECD, our global reach, and how to join us: oecd.org/about
To keep up with latest at the OECD: oecd.org
No country facing high and extreme fragility is on track to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality and empowering all women and girls. Though official development assistance (ODA) to gender equality has increased overall in recent years, it has declined in those countries. Learn more about how organizations and development partners should support women and girls in Afghanistan, Syria and other conflict-affected countries from Mariam Safi and Elke Löbel.
Read more about the OECD's work on gender and development here oecd.org/en/topics/sub-issues/gender-and-development.html
ABOUT THE OECD
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organization established in 1960 that works collaboratively to build better policies for better lives. Our goal is to shape policies that foster prosperity, equality, opportunity and well-being for all. Together with governments, policy makers, policy shapers, and citizens, we work on establishing evidence-based international standards and finding solutions to a range of social, economic and environmental challenges.
improving economic performance and creating jobs to fostering strong education and fighting international tax evasion, we provide a unique forum and knowledge hub for data and analysis, exchange of experiences, best-practice sharing, and advice on public policies and international standard-setting.
To learn more about the OECD, our global reach, and how to join us: oecd.org/about
To keep up with latest at the OECD: oecd.org
