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IMF Strategy Toward Mainstreaming Gender

July 28, 2022

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IMF Strategy Toward Mainstreaming Gender, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2022) accessed November 5, 2024

Summary

On July 22, 2022, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved the IMF’s first Strategy toward Mainstreaming Gender into the IMF’s core activities. Mainstreaming gender at the IMF starts with the recognition that reducing gender disparities goes hand-in-hand with higher economic growth, greater economic stability and resilience, and lower income inequality. At the same time, economic and financial policies can exacerbate or narrow gender disparities. Well-designed macroeconomic, structural, and financial policies can support efficient and inclusive outcomes and equitably benefit women, girls, and the society in general. The strategy lays out how the IMF can help its member countries address gender disparities in the context of carrying out its core functions—surveillance, lending, and capacity development. The strategy comprises four key pillars: first, gender-disaggregated data collection and development of modeling tools to enable staff to conduct policy analysis; second, a robust governance framework for an evenhanded approach across members based on the macro-criticality of gender; third, strengthening collaboration with external partners to benefit from knowledge sharing and peer learning, leverage complementarities, and maximize the impact on the ground; and fourth, the efficient use of resources allocated to gender by putting in place a central unit for realizing scale economies and supporting country teams.

Subject: Gender, Gender budgeting, Gender diversity, Gender inequality, Monetary policy, Political economy, Women

Keywords: Central Asia, East Asia, Gender budgeting, Gender diversity, Gender inequality, Gender policy objective, Global, IMF report, IMF's mandate, Middle East and Central Asia, Policy advice, Policy analysis, Policy priority, Sub-Saharan Africa, Women

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    101

  • Volume:

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  • Series:

    Policy Paper No. 2022/037

  • Stock No:

    PPEA2022037

  • ISBN:

    9798400216602

  • ISSN:

    2663-3493