## IMF Strategy Toward Mainstreaming Gender

_Policy Papers, July 28, 2022_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: July 28, 2022
- Series: Policy Papers
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400216602.007

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### Overview
- 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.
- The strategy is grounded in the recognition that reducing gender disparities is associated with:
  - higher economic growth,
  - greater economic stability and resilience,
  - lower income inequality.
- It notes that economic and financial policies can either exacerbate or narrow gender disparities and that well-designed macroeconomic, structural, and financial policies can support efficient and inclusive outcomes benefiting women, girls, and society.

### Four key pillars of the strategy
- Pillar 1: gender-disaggregated data collection and development of modeling tools to enable staff to conduct policy analysis.
- Pillar 2: a robust governance framework for an evenhanded approach across members based on the macro-criticality of gender.
- Pillar 3: strengthening collaboration with external partners to benefit from knowledge sharing and peer learning, leverage complementarities, and maximize the impact on the ground.
- Pillar 4: the efficient use of resources allocated to gender by putting in place a central unit for realizing scale economies and supporting country teams.

### Implications for IMF core functions
- The strategy lays out how the IMF can help member countries address gender disparities in the context of carrying out its core functions:
  - surveillance,
  - lending,
  - capacity development.

### Key publication facts and identifiers
- Publication date: July 28, 2022
- Pages: 101
- Volume: 2022
- Issue: 037
- Series: Policy Paper No. 2022/037
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400216602.007
- Stock No: PPEA2022037
- ISBN: 9798400216602
- ISSN: 2663-3493

*International Monetary Fund. IMF Strategy Toward Mainstreaming Gender (Policy Papers 2022, 037).*

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